http://lincco.com/blog Advertising, Marketing & SEO Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:09:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The important comparison is YOY (Year on year) as March is generally a month of high sales (depreciation benefits). Overall Market: - Passenger car sales up 4.2% (year-on-year) from 98,752 to 102,899 cars, mainly due to higher compacts & premiums. Great way to start the fresh financial year, though not everyone is ... http://lincco.com/blog/uncategorized/speadsheets-equal-big-profit/ Fun, simple and occasionally useful!  Follow this link >>> http://lincco.com/blog/advertising/call-to-action-generator-see-it/ Multimedia Tools... Nice article that shows the expensive industry standard, and then shows some free alternatives Link >:>> http://lincco.com/blog/design-tools/multimedia-tools-and-their-free-alternatives/ I recently picked up a used first gen iPhone and got it unlocked and jailbroke. I found a free app at the I phone store for updating your wordpress sites from your iPhone. This post was from my t-mobile network iPhone :) http://lincco.com/blog/design-tools/wordpress-app-for-iphone/ The draw back to being away from my machine at home or work is having access to a good photo editor. I hate gimp and just want a simple and straight forward app that can crop and resize with specific controls.  I found this web based photo editor that has ... http://lincco.com/blog/design-tools/web-based-photo-editor/ The Ad-O-Matic from James Kiersted on Vimeo. http://lincco.com/blog/design-tools/my-job-is-over-the-ad-o-matic-is-here/ Here is a quick and dirty design idea for a book or magazine cover. Grab an image from the library of congress on flickr, make sure rights usage is clear. Make your background a solid color. Drop A Helvetica Title On It. Use any additional artwork very minimally. Call it done! This one took me ... http://lincco.com/blog/featured-articles/five-minute-book-cover-design/ "Onsite SEO refers to the steps that you can take to optimize the content on your blog to increase your search engine rankings. Onsite SEO is active, and involves factors that are completely in your control to optimize. Inversely , offsite SEO refers to all the other methodologies that don’t ... http://lincco.com/blog/seo/on-site-and-off-site-seo/ Free Font are not always good fonts, the The League of Moveable Type wants to change that. "We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free ... http://lincco.com/blog/featured-articles/free-fonts-revolution/ I found this wonderful color picking tool at notcot today.  Those smart guys over at mailchimp created an online tool that generates  a  color palette from any photo that you upload.  I tested with a bunch of images and was happy with the results.  It does not show you all ... http://lincco.com/blog/featured-articles/pictaculous-color-palette-generator/