Logo Making - the easy way
As a web designer, logo making is part of my work. Designing the layout of a website is pretty easy compared to designing a logo. Logo design is a very delicate process as it must conform to what the client’s business is about. You can’t just give them a logo without giving it careful consideration, everything has to be perfect with regards to what the client needs. You have to have insight so that you will be able to see beforehand how people will react to the logo when they see it. Will your logo reflect your client’s business in one glance? Will it be worth a second glance?
Needless to say, logo making is a very hard process for the inexperienced. So being inexperienced, I browsed the web for some help, the angels must be smiling on me because I was able to find a DIY Logo Design site. I tried it for the logo of my father’s construction business and this is what I came up:
The process was straightforward and very easy to follow. And there are a number of great symbols/images to choose from, enough to get your creative juices flowing.
Free 1 Month Blog Exposure on USA Today Homepage Directory
Fuelmyblog does it again. They are offering all Fuelmyblog bloggers a chance to showcase their blogs at the USA Today Homepage Blogger/Podcaster Guide for one month FREE! I am not one to pass such a great offer, so I headed on to the sign-up page at bloggerandpodcaster.com/usatoday and registered. The process is relatively easy although I was expecting to bypass the credit card info page since this is a free offer - no chance. I know that it is a necessary step but it would have been nice not to input credit card info for once. 
Look for my blog on the 15th of February. I wonder what it can do for my readership… Let’s just wait and see…
You can read more about the offer at the Fuelmyblog Blog here.
Get Buzzed by Buzzfuse
With time in my hand, I again scoured the web for something exciting and new for me to try. I found Buzzfuse, a free content marketing service who aims to help bloggers, like me, market their content. They do have account upgrades at $14.99/month and $149.99/year, but I would like to try a service first to make sure it is viable before I shell out some hard earned moolah. So, I signed up, the process was straightforward, you enter your email address, agree to their terms, wait for a confirmation email (less than 1 minute), click on the link in the confirmation email, enter your details etc. - the process took around 2minutes tops. For now, they are just offering more visitors through the content you post but they are planning to offer real cash earnings soon. Visitors + Earnings = Good Enough for me.
To post a content, you need to add at least 10 contacts then you have to add a custom code to the content that you are planning to post. A new code is generated for every new content. After adding the code and publishing the content, you will be shown an “Invite to Activate” Buzzfuse image on your post, clicking on the image will bring you to the content signup form, you have the option to keep your content private for a select few or to spread it around. I opted to have everyone read my content, I posted the Lonely pig story, I wonder how much buzz it will get. I’ll keep you guys posted.
