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99designs

99designs

If you are looking for a great logo at an affordable price, you simply cannot go wrong with 99designs. Multiple designers compete to give you an amazing custom design. You pick your favorite. 99designs does more than just great logos. You can also get business card design, brochure design, package design, t-shirt design, and much more. Get your next design project done by the professionals at 99designs.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud gives you the entire collection of Adobe desktop and mobile apps, from essentials like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for graphic design, Audition for audio editing, and Premiere Pro for video editing. You also get built-in templates to jumpstart your designs and step-by-step tutorials to sharpen your skills and get up to speed quickly. Adobe Creative Cloud is your entire creative world, all in one place.

Beaver Builder

Beaver Builder

Beaver Builder is a drag-and-drop WordPress Page Builder. If you use self-hosted WordPress, you can install this one very powerful plugin to make designing your pages a breeze. Easily build beautiful, responsive WordPress pages in just minutes. You have to see all the cool things you can do with Beaver Builder.

ConvertKit

ConvertKit

Ready to level-up your email marketing? ConvertKit is professional email marketing built especially for solo entrepreneurs, small business owners, bloggers, podcasters, and anyone doing business online. ConvertKit combines simple, elegant sending with the automation and tagging features that you actually need as a professional business owner. If you’re ready to take your online business to the next level, ConvertKit is definitely the way to go.

Hover

Hover

Hover is simple domain name registration. I use Hover to register all of my domain names. All of their domains come with industry-leading customer support and free WHOIS privacy. Find the perfect domain name for your idea at Hover.

Purple Cow

Purple Cow

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
by Seth Godin
This little book changed my life. Shortly after reading it for the first time I decided to devote my life to helping others to be remarkable. All of my new design clients received a copy of this book as a thank you gift.

The Brand Gap

The Brand Gap

The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
by Marty Neumeier

The Brand Gap is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a “charismatic brand” – a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives.

What Great Brands Do

What Great Brands Do

What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest
by Denise Lee Yohn
Denise Lee Yohn explains how great brands can be built and identifies the 7 principles that turn ordinary brands into industry leaders.

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