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About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—a lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of incredible experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband, father and grandfather. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

I am Todd—lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of awesome experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband and father of three. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

I am Todd—lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of awesome experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband and father of three. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of awesome experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband and father of three. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of awesome experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband and father of three. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of awesome experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband and father of three. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of awesome experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband and father of three. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of awesome experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband and father of three. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

About ToddI am Todd—lifetime artist and passionate creative professional with over 30-years of awesome experience. A wellness, martial arts, Zen and spiritual teacher; imaginative entrepreneur; and honored husband and father of three. I am driven to helping others achieve their personal, professional, and spiritual best. You can find me online at https://www.toddszen.com, or https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com

Some basic ideas on what's the difference between a logo and a brand?

Thoughts on being genuine, across-the-board. Listen in on the conversation!

Thoughts on modern AI technology

Thoughts on higher energies, and changing how it makes you feel

Printing now on almost anything makes it easier than ever to create powerful displays.

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10 ways to ruin your brand Create a boring mission Change your mission to follow trends Create low quality graphics Develop a cheap website Spend little time on your brand Hire just about anybody Do not engage with customers Ignore social media Cut corners and be cheap Don’t update and improve Although I can come up with maybe 100 different ways to ruin your brand I want to focus on 10 ways to ruin your brand— and these are very common. Please subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044 About Todd: I am a lifetime creative professional dedicated to helping other businesses and individuals achieve their best—their Zen. I’m Todd Mitchell. Lifetime artist, entrepreneur, and 30-year creative professional. I develop creative ideas and solutions that help inspire the best in people, products and businesses. My mission is helping others achieve their absolute best. Personally and professionally. Mitchell Creative Group is a micro-virtual creative agency outside of Boston, serving small businesses with professional creative services: Branding and identity, marketing and advertising, web and print, video and new media. Small businesses need high-level creative support— quickly, and at a fair, flexible price. And that’s what I provide. https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com [email protected] (508) 494-8182 JOIN THE PODCAST! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7iF3nmexQwTOW83Dp9h79L

Social media tips

The best brands

Powerpoint points

Please subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044About Todd: I am a lifetime creative professional dedicated to helping other businesses and individuals achieve their best—their Zen.I’m Todd Mitchell. Lifetime artist, entrepreneur, and 30-year creative professional. I develop creative ideas and solutions that help inspire the best in people, products and businesses. My mission is helping others achieve their absolute best. Personally and professionally. Mitchell Creative Group is a micro-virtual creative agency outside of Boston, serving small businesses with professional creative services: Branding and identity, marketing and advertising, web and print, video and new media. Small businesses need high-level creative support— quickly, and at a fair, flexible price. And that’s what I provide.https://[email protected](508) 494-8182

What angry thoughts really do to you

There are so many reasons to be a "YES!" man or woman in the world. Hers are some examples...

The tricky innkeeper story

Releasing the Us vs. Them Mentality

Releasing Goals and Living for Today

Creating online content and websites on the cheap can destroy your business. Please subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044 About Todd: I am a lifetime creative professional dedicated to helping other businesses and individuals achieve their best—their Zen. I’m Todd Mitchell. Lifetime artist, entrepreneur, and 30-year creative professional. I develop creative ideas and solutions that help inspire the best in people, products and businesses. My mission is helping others achieve their absolute best. Personally and professionally. Mitchell Creative Group is a micro-virtual creative agency outside of Boston, serving small businesses with professional creative services: Branding and identity, marketing and advertising, web and print, video and new media. Small businesses need high-level creative support— quickly, and at a fair, flexible price. And that’s what I provide. https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com [email protected] (508) 494-8182 JOIN THE PODCAST! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7iF3nmexQwTOW83Dp9h79L

The art of keeping design simple is hard to imagine, but easy to achieve.

Here's a basic overview of phishing, and some ideas on how to avoid getting hurt!

Please subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044About Todd: I am a lifetime creative professional dedicated to helping other businesses and individuals achieve their best—their Zen.I’m Todd Mitchell. Lifetime artist, entrepreneur, and 30-year creative professional. I develop creative ideas and solutions that help inspire the best in people, products and businesses. My mission is helping others achieve their absolute best. Personally and professionally. Mitchell Creative Group is a micro-virtual creative agency outside of Boston, serving small businesses with professional creative services: Branding and identity, marketing and advertising, web and print, video and new media. Small businesses need high-level creative support— quickly, and at a fair, flexible price. And that’s what I provide.https://[email protected](508) 494-8182JOIN THE PODCAST!Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7iF3nmexQwTOW83Dp9h79L

Boosted posts on social media like Facebook and Instagram are a little less complex than ads and are easier to get a handle on if you are used to your social media’s News Feed. Unlike an ad, a boosted post is simply a regular post that you pay to reach a wider audience. Most boosts cost maybe $10-$25 although you can arrange more budget and reach—whereas advertising is much more involved and costly.

ToddTalks 27 - What is your hourly rate REALLY worth? It’s important to know your value in the marketplace. What are you really worth per hour? Put a value on your time and expertise and it will help you in pricing your time as well as what value you bring to the table. Think about it— what are you worth? Please subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044 About Todd: I am a lifetime creative professional dedicated to helping other businesses and individuals achieve their best—their Zen. I’m Todd Mitchell. Lifetime artist, entrepreneur, and 30-year creative professional. I develop creative ideas and solutions that help inspire the best in people, products and businesses. My mission is helping others achieve their absolute best. Personally and professionally. Mitchell Creative Group is a micro-virtual creative agency outside of Boston, serving small businesses with professional creative services: Branding and identity, marketing and advertising, web and print, video and new media. Small businesses need high-level creative support— quickly, and at a fair, flexible price. And that’s what I provide. https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com [email protected] (508) 494-8182 JOIN THE PODCAST! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7iF3nmexQwTOW83Dp9h79L

Many businesses change their brand for the wrong reasons. Please subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044 About Todd: I am a lifetime creative professional dedicated to helping other businesses and individuals achieve their best—their Zen. I’m Todd Mitchell. Lifetime artist, entrepreneur, and 30-year creative professional. I develop creative ideas and solutions that help inspire the best in people, products and businesses. My mission is helping others achieve their absolute best. Personally and professionally. Mitchell Creative Group is a micro-virtual creative agency outside of Boston, serving small businesses with professional creative services: Branding and identity, marketing and advertising, web and print, video and new media. Small businesses need high-level creative support— quickly, and at a fair, flexible price. And that’s what I provide. https://www.mitchellcreativegroup.com [email protected] (508) 494-8182 JOIN THE PODCAST! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7iF3nmexQwTOW83Dp9h79L

How to create a press releaseCreating a press release can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be— like anything else. There are 2 factors—creating it, and then publishing it. Create it well, and use the best publishing source for your field/market. Google search “free press release template” as well as “writing press releases,” or “how to create a press release.” There are MANY helpful links. Please subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toddtalks/id1483361044About Todd: I am a lifetime creative professional dedicated to helping other businesses and individuals achieve their best—their Zen.I’m Todd Mitchell. Lifetime artist, entrepreneur, and 30-year creative professional. I develop creative ideas and solutions that help inspire the best in people, products and businesses. My mission is helping others achieve their absolute best. Personally and professionally. Mitchell Creative Group is a micro-virtual creative agency outside of Boston, serving small businesses with professional creative services: Branding and identity, marketing and advertising, web and print, video and new media. Small businesses need high-level creative support— quickly, and at a fair, flexible price. And that’s what I provide.https://[email protected](508) 494-8182

It’s wise to be strategic and thoughtful about what social media you use— and tik tok might actually work to your benefit.

The internet is super-saturated. So what does that mean to you? Be creative and very aggressive in your approach to content.

Adobe will disable support for authoring with Type 1 fonts in January 2023.

Projects don’t have to take so long. Here’s some advice on getting things moving quickly before your competition beats you to the finish line!

There’s a lot to marketing, but here’s some advice on simply getting started—make it easy.

There’s a big difference in the font world. Not just the font, but what type, what style, what kind… And then, online, for print, and for application only. Here are the basics behind fonts and typestyles.

Whether you have a small startup lemonade-stand business, or a large enterprise corporation, developing a sound marketing strategy and budget are vital to the business. Why? First let’s define marketing and why that matters.

Almost everyone in the modern technological world today has email. Text, social media, apps, phone, and most definitely email. We use the email on a daily basis to communicate with family, friends, or at work. Certainly in a work environment we see sometimes hundreds of emails a day. So creating quality emails that get attention and truly get the job done are much more important today than ever.

What real help looks like. How to best-serve creative clients.When it comes to client services, you want to nurture, nurture, nurture. Provide the best service you can, no matter what. THAT is what you do. The adage— the customer is always right “sort of” applies here. They are not always right, so let’s re-phrase that to “the customer is always most important no matter what.”My version of real help looks like this: Caring more for the other than for your self. No ego, no attitudes. Simply putting that person in #1 position to help them. That’s what I believe, that’s what I do. When it comes to running a creative agency— virtual, in person, or otherwise requires that you provide a service to others and apply your God-given talents to others. It’s what you do. You either hire, or outsource others that are the best in their field. Thus, surrounding yourself with an excellent team. That team now serves clients. I have applied these principles to everything I do in life, especially professionally for now running my own micro-virtual creative agency for over 20 years. I lead with kindness, respect, honesty, humor, and caring. My expectation is that they are #1—always. I disregard things like “revision rounds,” too many edits, problems, budgets, and concerns. All of these things can be worked around, fixed, and resolved. Every client and every project wants the same ending. High quality, fast, and affordably. So how we get there is (in my opinion and method) dependent on the guide—the leader. If you provide a safe haven, a catcher’s mitt mentality that you catch every ball thrown— open that glove and take the hits. You are not only one of the best players or catchers in the game, but will be relied upon, trusted, and established as a valued partner. And THAT is what’s most important. Be a valued and trusted leader.There’s far too many greedy, selfish, arrogant, and thoughtlessness in the world, so why not provide the better side? By living these values and virtues, or acting upon the best core values you can personally, and then provide that outwardly, you are creating the best service available. The ideal relationship. And that is what real help looks like in any business.Let me give you a few examples of how I suggest helping creative clients:1. No problem, I’ll take care of that2. YES! I will do that, no problem3. Budgets and cost are always flexible. Let’s come up with a cost that fits the best need and budget.4. I’ll fix it as much as we need to until we get it right5. I’m sorry about that, let me fix that quickly6. This is VERY important, let me take care of that7. How soon do you need it?On top of that, one of my beliefs is putting your literal money where your mouth is. And this is a valuable question: Are you willing to do it for free? I sure have… I have probably provided just as much free work as I have paid work. Why? Because I do what I love and love what I do. And my core belief is providing a service to others as an obligation and honor rather than a way to “get money from others.” Now obviously wisdom, experience, discipline, and boundaries all come in to play here. Running a fiscally-responsible business require a lot of common sense. So you also need to practice your Zen… your protective instinct to maintain a solid business. That goes without saying.But valuing what’s most important should not be money first, or profit first, or “things.” Those things always come and go‚ and eventually go away. So by valuing your talents and your customer’s needs first— providing a great service to others, you will NEVER run out of or provide enough of. And because of that— you in turn run a more sustainable business. Remember, at the core, your “DNA” or your genetics and cellular structure is what you are, so build up a solid foundation based on those inner values first. And ask your self what those things are to you.But before you “help” others, really ponder why you are helping them in the first place?