Leading by Example
When I was younger in my career, I thought that leading meant telling people what to do and making decisions. Over time, I have come to understand that leading is more about “doing” than “telling.”
Leadership – How Do You Get There?
I never started out to become a leader. The person that steps toward an issue and people follow. I didn’t …
Five Tips to Get Your Marketing Off the Back Burner
It’s easy to put our own marketing efforts to the back burner when we’re busy focusing on our daily tasks. …
Free White Paper: 10 Ways to Make Your Website More Effective
This free white paper from Uptown Studios will walk you through the key steps in optimizing your website to take advantage of modern techniques and technologies, and drive your visitors to convert to customers!
Learning and Growing in April
This past week we had the BEST April Fools’ joke. Our lead graphic designer, Anton Weaver, created a 3D model of a special drone that delivered coffee. It is so realistic that when it was dropped into a photo we set up of me reaching for my drone delivered coffee – I could almost smell it.
Inspired to Be Creative Everyday
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou How do you get …
Scope Creep: Embrace it!
I must confess, I initially started this blog with the intention of addressing the big bad beast that is scope creep. You know, something like “5 tips on how to avoid scope creep with your website project”… But as I really thought about scope creep – that big project management-y term that I first learned years back when being formally trained in project management and thought about just how often we deal with it… I had a bit of an “A-ha” moment.
Three Things to Improve Creativity and Imagination at Work
Imagination is the best, most powerful tool in our toolbox here at Uptown Studios. It’s important to be sure that …
Get Your Mojo on With Design
I think surrounding myself with incredible and creative people keeps me dancing. We have a team at Uptown Studios that really works hard, loves the type of challenges we get faced with every day, and enjoys working as a team. Lucky us! It is a bit of magic when everyone more than gets along and likes each other.
5 Tips for Inspired Blogging
Writing can be tough, but with the right energy and preparation, you should never be caught without some inspiration to put some content out that will engage readers!
