Are you a butt kicking graphic designer looking to make some extra money? We currently have a few additional projects per month that we could use a hand with.

Details:
Some of these projects are super-easy (I bet you’ve heard that before), with just a few small graphic elements needed to complete a design.

Other projects may require a full 1-page Layered PSD for us to use as a template for the client’s design.

In 100% of the instances that we need custom design work, the project manager will always provide you with a rough draft done in Photoshop so you’ll never be working without some pretty solid visual guidelines to help.

So what does it pay?
We won’t ask you to do anything that won’t take at least a few hours. The projects we need help with will range in price from $200-$600, and all payments are sent via PayPal.

Are you a good fit?
We work on fun projects with amazing clients, and strive to provide them with a fast turnaround time on their sites. If you already have a very busy workload, then this may not be a good fit for you.

Other than that, why don’t you email any specific questions you have, share a bit of your work with us and see if we can’t get this party started: resumes@oturia.com

Once again, we were happy to be working with a distinguished member of the photog community, the one and only Lisa Carpenter.

Lisa’s photographic style is classy and elegant, and she needed that “look” to come through while presenting her work in an editorial fashion.

Be sure to check out her new blog site, and if you haven’t already signed up for the 2012 Seniorologie Tour where Lisa will be one of the speakers, get to it before they run out of spaces.

We love photogs. A lot. They’re savvy (using a camera is as hard as designing websites), they’re creative (they wouldn’t be in business if they weren’t) and they know how to use Photoshop like Tony Hawk knows how to use a skateboard.

So it goes without saying that photographers are dream clients of ours. So what could be more dreamier than having a major photography community site like Clickin Moms ask us to redo their online store for them?

The ladies over CM know their stuff, and we were happy to help them customize their new e-commerce site with amazing (and in some cases previously unavailable) features. As a part of their re-launch, they’ve also got some new products available as well as some great specials coming up for holiday shopping.

Be sure to check out the Clickin Moms custom designed store for great deals on gifts and supplies for the photogs in your life!

I had an interesting meeting today with a pair of business owners based out of Indianapolis. They came to talk to me about their “million dollar” idea. In the end, they left the office encouraged, but convinced that they were far, far away from developing the right idea.

After the meeting was over, a few of us stayed and chatted about how common it is to take the wrong approach to developing products and services, which led me to want to talk about what I view as the 5 most important parts of developing a new product or service. (more…)

Over the years, we’ve learned that happy customers are a better source of marketing than any other outlet we’ve tried. Word gets around quick when you do awesome stuff, and word-of-mouth is a powerful marketing tool. But doing a good job these days isn’t enough to inspire people to spread the word about your products or services. Find out the five steps we take to show we’re freakishly addicted to happy customers:

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