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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyates</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for entering our Silly Little Competition. We will announce our winner by the end of the week of the competition.
Prizes will be delivered within a week of the winner beign announced.
Thank you for taking part, please feel free to contact us at any time with regard to this or anything else &#8211; as a [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Randstad recruitment, who hold a competition that I never win (even though I get the answers right every week) I am today (and, if it proves popular, on other days also) running a silly little competition.
FIRST PRIZE IS A CREATIVE THING TEE SHIRT


How to Enter:
In this quiz, we don&#8217;t want you to answer the questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Creative Thing Tee Shirt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyates</dc:creator>
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Every year we produce tee shirts which we give away at networking events, to clients and friends. It is a great way to market the company, particularly if the shirt is something more than a big business card. We try to give ours a little style and desirability to it. This year we have gone [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Discover. Take an overview of brochure design.
Target. Who are you communicating with?
Objective. What are you trying to achieve?
Simplicity. Say a few things well rather than many things badly.
Lines and boxes. Be cautious over using lines and boxes.
Use negative space.
Stand out from the crowd.
Use colour as a weapon.
Choose the right paper.
Proofread! Check for phrasing, spelling and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Email Marketing &#8211; A Cc cautionary tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to email to a list of people you have four options:
 You can email the list to one person at a time
You can  send the email once and then &#8216;Cc&#8217; everyone else
You can  send the email once and then &#8216;Bcc&#8217; everyone else
You can use a third party service
The first will [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyates</dc:creator>
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Your visitor should not need a map and compass to navigate a web site
Web sites should be designed, not painted
People need to find web sites easily




Web sites text needs to be easy to read
Select text and background colours very carefully. Certain colours and shades camouflage each other. [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyates</dc:creator>
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		<title>Creative Thing at the BBC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creative Thing recently featured as the key marketing contributors in the BBC debate on Middle Age consumers. The debate was featured as a topic for discussion on BBC Hereford and Worcester on Howard Benthams Breakfast Time show. David Yates, Managing Director of Creative Thing talked of the difficulties in defining middle age.

&#8220;Middle age is almost [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creative Thing is always trying to see the world from someone else&#8217;s perspective. A typical graphic design agency approach is to second guess the clients. Creative Thing are the graphic design agency who research our customer&#8217;s customers. Ultimately they are the people deciding to buy and they are therefore more important to a designer than [...]]]></description>
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