AB: All-Round Nice Guy

When you’re running a solo business, it’s hard enough job to separate your working life from your personal life - but when you add to that equation the constant task of invoicing and chasing up debtors, it might be time to call in a Bad Cop.

Here’s a quick Photoshop tutorial based on a recent project of mine - how to fake a photo of a new book for promotional material, when the book wouldn’t be printed for a few months.

The fonts you use in your logo go a very long way towards defining how you look to your customers. But with thousands of fonts out there to choose from, and virtually none to play with in a Font Menu on your typical computer, where do you start?

A lot of you reading this could already guess at least 3 or 4 of the main reasons to register a domain name for your business - but it’s something that a lot of small business and soloists overlook - and in the interests of all, it’s worth a refresh.

It’s not as scary as it sounds - by using an expert system to automate repetitive, but specialist tasks unique to your solo business, you can save time, offload tasks, or put your ‘brain’ online for profit. So, who’s first for an electronic cerebrectomy then?