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Drawn cover: six logo sketches on dark tiles — a wordmark, a monogram, a triangle, a ring, a wave and a shield — with the monogram picked out in sky blue and ticked

Design

Logo ideas for a business: seven kinds of logo and how to choose between them

An idea bank for business owners, sorted by kind of logo: wordmark, lettermark, pictorial and abstract marks, emblem, combination mark and mascot. Where to find an idea in your own business and what to check before you fall for it.

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Business

Pitch deck examples: what LinkedIn, Buffer and investors’ own guides show slide by slide

Few companies publish the deck that raised their money. LinkedIn and Buffer did. Here are those pitch deck examples read against the outlines Sequoia and Y Combinator publish, with the design rules that let a deck read on its own.

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Design

Brand strategy for a small business: five decisions behind the logo and a one-page example

A brand strategy is a short set of decisions, not a logo or a slogan. Here are its five parts, a one-page example for a car repair shop, ways to research it on a small budget and a way to see whether it works.

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Marketing

Landing page examples by type: what the first screen, the form and the proof must do

Five landing page examples taken from public rules, not galleries: lead capture, a click-through to a shop, an event sign-up, an app download and a local booking. What each first screen says, what it asks for and what it leaves out.

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Design

Brand guidelines examples: what NASA, GOV.UK and Cambridge publish, and what to borrow

Public brand guidelines examples, read closely: how NASA, GOV.UK, the University of Cambridge and Mozilla set logo space, colour codes, fonts, photos, voice and logo permissions, and what a small business needs from them.

Drawn cover: four website layouts pinned as references — a large picture, three product tiles, a headline with a button outlined in sky blue, and a list

Design

Website design examples by business type: layouts that work and why

Website design examples are most useful sorted by job: selling a service, selling products, taking bookings, showing work or informing the public. The layouts that work for each, what public guidelines say, and how to turn examples into a brief.

Drawn cover: a shop window of six product tiles, one with a sky-blue product, beside a shopping cart and a parcel box outlined in sky blue

Business

How to start an online store: product, numbers, platform, rules and first buyers

What to sell and to whom, what one order really costs, hosted or open-source or custom, payments and tax, the EU, UK and US rules, and where the first buyers come from: a plain plan for makers and small firms.

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AI

What is AI automation: how it works, where a person checks it and how to start

AI automation is ordinary workflow software with one step that reads: it sorts a request, drafts an answer or pulls figures from a document, and a person checks the result. Five everyday workflows, the tools, the risks and the rules.

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Marketing

Video marketing for a small business: which videos to make, where to post them and what to measure

Video marketing for a small business is a few modest videos, each given one job: reach, explain, prove or sell. Here are the five kinds, the platforms’ own specs, captions, a monthly plan and the numbers that show whether it pays.

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Marketing

Product description examples for five product types: structure, platform rules and claims

Product description examples for a garment, a kitchen appliance, a cosmetic, a digital product and a spare part: the opening line, the facts buyers check, the claims the law restricts and how the text changes on a marketplace.

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AI

AI image generator: how it works, what to compare and how to get the picture you planned

An ai image generator removes noise step by step until the picture matches your words. Here is what to compare between tools, how to brief and iterate for a controlled result, where generators stop and who owns the output.

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Business

Typing speed: how it is measured, what counts as normal and how to raise it

Typing speed is counted in characters or in five-character words per minute. Here is how gross and net speed differ, what 168,960 volunteers typed on average, what an official job standard asks and how to raise your own number.

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