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

Working Around Short Comings

January 15, 2014/0 Comments/in Blog, Random Musings, Small Business/by Colleen Eakins

Do you have short comings that make things difficult as a small business owner? A disability to work around? I have a little of both. I have a disability, that I won’t disclose today 🙂 and a few perceived short comings that I have to work around. I am an introvert, I have way more […]

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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Fixing Jetpack’s Publicize Issues

January 13, 2014/0 Comments/in Blog, Social Media Marketing, Technical Issues/by Colleen Eakins

I have been using Publicize within WordPress’s Jetpack to post new blog posts to my social media networks for a couple of months now. At first, it was great! I was even able to configure things to use my new custom shortlink when it posted on the networks. Somewhere along the way, things went awry. […]

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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Being an Introverted Freelancer

January 10, 2014/2 Comments/in Blog, Random Musings/by Colleen Eakins

I am an introvert, a freelancer and an entrepreneur. However, I did not learn that I was an introvert until a couple of years ago. My mother is an introvert and my father is an extravert. Because I have the personality of my father, I have always been branded as an extrovert and my introverted […]

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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Long Hashtag Gripe: #iOnlyHave140characters

January 7, 2014/2 Comments/in Blog, Random Musings, Social Media Marketing/by Colleen Eakins

I have a hashtag gripe. While I love that brands are embracing social media and making custom hashtags for us to follow and engage with them, why must some of them be so long? I only have 140 characters! I was watching TV a few nights ago and saw a KFC commercial that illustrates this […]

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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When the Boss Gets Sick: Part 2

January 3, 2014/0 Comments/in Blog, Small Business/by Colleen Eakins

Yesterday I talked about how I use auto responders and auto reply emails to notify clients and potential clients that I am out of the office. This is a great way to notify people that I am out, but not so great if a client has an emergency that they need taken care of. This […]

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