Colleen Eakins, Art Director

About Colleen Eakins

Colleen Eakins is a dynamic and creative individual that possess a knack for great design. With over 15 years of experience in the field of graphic design, Colleen is able to effectively brand her clients with great design pieces. Her motto is: "Anyone can make a pretty picture, but is it effective? Will it make your customer buy your product or use your services? My design tries to answer with a YES!"

Entries by Colleen Eakins

The Most Recent Twitter Update: Your Thoughts?

May 14, 2014/2 Comments/in Blog, Social Media Marketing/by Colleen Eakins

Today’s post is really more of a question, or a series of questions. Have you updated your Twitter profile to go along with the latest updates? How do you like the update? I updated my profile a couple of weeks ago, but I am not quite happy with the update that I made. I love […]

Colleen Eakins

Colleen Eakins is a dynamic and creative individual that possess a knack for great design. With over 15 years of experience in the field of graphic design, Colleen is able to effectively brand her clients with great design pieces. Her motto is: “Anyone can make a pretty picture, but is it effective? Will it make your customer buy your product or use your services? My design tries to answer with a YES!”

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Boosting Office Morale When You ARE the Office

May 12, 2014/2 Comments/in Blog, Random Musings/by Colleen Eakins

As a freelancer, I wear many hats and essentially I am the entire office staff for my business. Just me, myself and I. I’ve written before about when the boss (me) gets sick and now, the boss is in crisis. I have playfully referred to my dog as my coworker and over the weekend, he […]

Colleen Eakins

Colleen Eakins is a dynamic and creative individual that possess a knack for great design. With over 15 years of experience in the field of graphic design, Colleen is able to effectively brand her clients with great design pieces. Her motto is: “Anyone can make a pretty picture, but is it effective? Will it make your customer buy your product or use your services? My design tries to answer with a YES!”

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Social Media Superlatives

May 7, 2014/0 Comments/in Blog, Random Musings/by Colleen Eakins

Flipping through an old high school yearbook (shout out to Pine Forge Academy!), I stumbled upon the superlative’s section and it made me smile. “Most Likely to Succeed” and “Best Looking” were a couple of the normal ones you see and “Most Likely to Return and Teach” was one of the unusual ones we made […]

Colleen Eakins

Colleen Eakins is a dynamic and creative individual that possess a knack for great design. With over 15 years of experience in the field of graphic design, Colleen is able to effectively brand her clients with great design pieces. Her motto is: “Anyone can make a pretty picture, but is it effective? Will it make your customer buy your product or use your services? My design tries to answer with a YES!”

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Look What I Found: Monday Motivation

May 5, 2014/0 Comments/in Blog, Random Musings/by Colleen Eakins

It’s amazing what a simple Google search can turn up. Well, that’s not really what is amazing; me not thinking to do it before is what is amazing. On to one of my favorite topics: Mondays. I talk about them a lot and this morning I performed a Google search for “Monday Motivation.” What I […]

Colleen Eakins

Colleen Eakins is a dynamic and creative individual that possess a knack for great design. With over 15 years of experience in the field of graphic design, Colleen is able to effectively brand her clients with great design pieces. Her motto is: “Anyone can make a pretty picture, but is it effective? Will it make your customer buy your product or use your services? My design tries to answer with a YES!”

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“Reasonable” Usually Means “Unreasonable”

May 2, 2014/0 Comments/in Blog, Entrepreneurship, Random Musings, Small Business/by Colleen Eakins

This is a bit of a vent… rea•son•able adjective \ˈrēz-nə-bəl, ˈrē-zən-ə-bəl\ a : being in accordance with reason <a reasonable theory> b : not extreme or excessive <reasonable requests> c : moderate, fair <a reasonable chance> <a reasonable price> d : inexpensive According to Merriam-Webster, that is the definition of reasonable. However, in the business world it seems to meet this definition: un•rea•son•able adjective \-ˈrēz-nə-bəl, -ˈrē-zən-ə-bəl\ : not fair, sensible, or appropriate : not reasonable a : […]

Colleen Eakins

Colleen Eakins is a dynamic and creative individual that possess a knack for great design. With over 15 years of experience in the field of graphic design, Colleen is able to effectively brand her clients with great design pieces. Her motto is: “Anyone can make a pretty picture, but is it effective? Will it make your customer buy your product or use your services? My design tries to answer with a YES!”

colleeneakins.com