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

Burnout Made Me Lazy

November 17, 2015/4 Comments/in Blog, Entrepreneurship, Random Musings, Small Business/by Colleen Eakins

Burnout made me lazy. Here’s another admission; I suffered a bit of burnout at the end of 2014. After things picked up and I started to make it out of the hard time I had been having with my business, I burned myself out. I was juggling freelance work with an onsite contract assignment and […]

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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Cheap Graphic Designers vs. Expensive Graphic Designers

November 3, 2015/0 Comments/in Blog, Entrepreneurship, Random Musings, Small Business/by Colleen Eakins

Have you searched for a graphic designer, noticed a wide range in pricing and wondered why? If you haven’t had much experience working with or a firm understanding of graphic design, you may feel that some designers are charging exorbitant fees. Especially when you can find cheap graphic designers doing what seems to be the […]

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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Why I like doing graphic design contract work

October 27, 2015/0 Comments/in Blog, Entrepreneurship, Random Musings/by Colleen Eakins

When I went through a tough time with my design business, I decided to supplement my income by picking up graphic design contract work. Working graphic design contract jobs was not something that was new to me. I spent four years working for 3M as a designer in Atlanta…as a graphic design contractor. Working as […]

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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Looking for a Small Business Loan?

October 20, 2015/0 Comments/in Blog, Resources, Small Business/by Colleen Eakins

So it seems I may have inadvertently started a series (of posts) centering around what was going on when I went missing from my blog for a year. I promise there are happy endings and learning lessons wrapped up in all of these posts. 🙂 When things got tough with my business, I started to […]

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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How I Made it Through a Tough Time with My Business

October 13, 2015/2 Comments/in Blog, Entrepreneurship, Small Business/by Colleen Eakins

So last week I announced that I was back from my hiatus and that there had been a myriad of reasons for my absence. Over the next few weeks or so, I plan to write about some of those reasons that held me back and caused me to take a break from writing. One reason […]

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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