Have you ever tried to fix something in your home that maybe you shouldn’t have? Just recently I had a pipe burst in my house in the second story bathroom. And rather than call a professional plumber to fix it, … Continue reading
CINQ’s Unique Business Card Gets National Attention
The business card is NOT dead. This small marketing token, which used to be the main networking tool for businesses and conference-goers has since been considered ancient. However, the art of handing out an eye-catching business card in order to … Continue reading
Win a Sweet CINQ Monogram T-Shirt
UPDATE! We are “sweetening the pot” a bit. We will also be giving away one of these awesome Joe D. Zyner coffee mugs via a random drawing when we hit 200 followers/fans. On the mug is Joe’s creative take on how … Continue reading
5 Things I Have Learned as a Full-Time Designer
June 2012. Heart racing, I made the biggest decision of not only my life, but my family’s as well. I quit my comfortable job to be a designer and business owner full-time. It was time to make the jump and … Continue reading
Is Your Website Using a Template? 5 Easy Steps to Find Out
At CINQ, we believe in beautifully-designed and well-developed websites. They help to positively promote your business and communicate to your visitors. We also believe that they should be a unique, custom promotion for your business. We also use the WordPress … Continue reading
Why We Don’t Do Spec Work
Spec work and spec-based design contests are a growing concern within the graphic design profession. With this ever-growing problem manifesting itself with presidential campaigns, book publishers, and large retailers buying into the crowd source and design done on spec, I … Continue reading
Pancakes and Print Design
Terrible service has the same outcome, whether you’re talking PANCAKES or PRINT DESIGN. After church on Sunday, my family and I decided to go for a bite to eat…..our restaurant of choice shall remain nameless. Let’s just say that it … Continue reading
Target Gets it Right
As a father of a very enthusiastic five year old boy, this holiday season looks to be an exciting one. So, it was pandemonium when the holiday toy books starting arriving in our mailbox. And, from a designer’s standpoint, the … Continue reading
5 Ways to Get More from Your Google Analytics Results
It’s easy to sign up for a Google Analytics account, add the tracking code to your website and wait for the hits to come in. But, hit counts aren’t the whole story on how effective your website is or what … Continue reading
Web Designer as Developer, Writer and Content Editor
Looking back on over a decade of Web design work, I realized something…I am not only a Web Designer, but also a Content Editor, Writer and Web Developer. And, it has made me a better Web Designer in the process. … Continue reading