SMACK HAPPY BLOG

Design for the Holidays

From our newsletter… Halloween is just around the corner, which means Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa – or as I lovingly refer to the holidays, ChrismaHanaKwanzikah – are soon to follow. It always amazes me how fast the year flies by. So, have you considered sending out a holiday greeting to your clients and prospects?…

From our newsletter…
Halloween is just around the corner, which means Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa – or as I lovingly refer to the holidays, ChrismaHanaKwanzikah – are soon to follow. It always amazes me how fast the year flies by.

So, have you considered sending out a holiday greeting to your clients and prospects?

Why Send a Greeting

The holidays are a great time to get in touch with your clients. In addition to saying, “Hey, I haven’t forgotten you!”, you are also reminding your clients and prospects of your services. This may prompt them to contact you about work they’ve been meaning to get done, or that friend who asked about your services. You’ll be fresh in their minds in January when work starts picking up.

What to Send

Typically I like to send a card online to my mailing list, including clients, potential clients, family and friends. But you can also send printed cards (for a pretty good price) or simply add some festive graphics to your web site from the end of November to the beginning of January. In addition, you can offer a special promotion in your holiday greeting.

How to Make it Happen

Contact us to get an estimate on creating a customized greeting card for your business. We’ll not only design your greeting card, we’ll also handle the printing and mailing (or e-mail delivery). All we need is a little direction for the design, and a list of clients/prospects. We’ll take it from there.

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Nicole Hanusek

Nicole Hanusek

Nikki Stormborn of the House Smack Happy, First of her Name, the Custom Coded, Queen of the Designs and the First Website, Nichole of the Great List of Typos, Breaker of Rules, and Mother of Puppies.

I've been designing and coding websites since 1998. Yep, that's before the Internet was popular! I currently live in San Francisco, but I started out in Cleveland, OH. In college my major was illustration and one day I was working in the computer lab and my colleague was looking for jobs in our industry. I thought to myself, "I should probably do that too!" So I sent my resume to every place that offered graphic design positions in my area. I interviewed at a web consulting company, and the owner asked me why I wanted the job. I didn't even know what the job was! He hired me anyway, and on the first day, the Art Director handed me a thick book and said, "here, learn HTML." And so I did, and here we are. I'm hooked.

What I like most about building websites is that I get to be creative visually and solve problems. Growing up, I was a huge fan of math and science, so the coding part of the job scratches that logic and trouble-shooting itch. I get to partake in the artsy side and analytical side - the best of both worlds!

My goal is to help make everyone's life easier. By building easy-to-use websites, I can help my clients, as well as their clients.