As I've reflected on previously in my book, 20 Simple Shortcuts to Small Business Success, running a business never really gets easy, and it's pretty much always stressful. As fast ...

How often should you re-design your website? (Or at the very least, revisit the content?) We tell our clients it should be done every two years. And not for self-serving ...

Back at the start of it all, (October 2006), Swish Design was just me – Kelly. Let’s call that iteration of the business Swish 1.0. I’d set myself up in ...

Sleep. It’s the first thing that gets sacrificed when life gets busy. And there’s no busier life than that of the average business owner. We’re never on top of our ...

We can’t change the number of hours we have in a day. But we can change the energy we bring to those hours. That’s why I do my best to ...

Business success. For many people today, those two words tend to conjure up an image of someone lying in a hammock on a tropical island, cocktail in hand, with their ...

Swish Design has always had an office. Right from the very beginning 11 years ago when the business was just ‘me’, I sub-let a little 3m x 3m room in ...

I don’t know about everyone else, but I personally like to be busy. I get bored very easily so tend to ensure I have a lot on my plate to ...

Given there are websites/services out there that can design you a logo for $100, the question has to be asked: Why would you ever pay upwards of $1000 to get ...

Are you one of those people with 3500 unread emails in their inbox? Does ‘Inbox Zero’ feel like a distant dream? Then this post is for you. These are the ...

Given we’re website designers, it would be disingenuous if we didn’t acknowledge this fact: getting a new website is a significant investment no matter what kind of business you have. ...

When you’re a business owner (who’s not in retail or a restaurateur), it’s tempting to use the quiet weeks over Christmas and New Year to ‘catch up’ or ‘get ahead’ ...