Sweating the Details » blog http://www.dockerydesign.com/blog Tyler Dockery discusses graphic design, web design, business, networking, and Dockery Design as it services Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:16:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Consultant in Action: Consulting for Dockery Design http://www.dockerydesign.com/blog/index.php/consultant-in-action-consulting-for-dockery-design/ http://www.dockerydesign.com/blog/index.php/consultant-in-action-consulting-for-dockery-design/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:01:18 +0000 dockerydesigns http://www.dockerydesign.com/blog/?p=287 At Dockery Design, consulting for a business can be a day-long affair, a multi-month engagement in their office, and everything in between. Consulting for a live, working business often involves a learning curve as our team comes to understand their current business workflow, their vendor interaction, and their marketing plan. Once we see how their

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I do a small amount of work with bloggers— helping them to redesign their sites, and punch up their content. One of the minor complaints that I hear rather often is that “people seem to HATE my blog. No matter what tack I take, visitors leave and

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