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Our curated selection of resources put you in control of your website & branding

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Helpful resources for your business journey

Practical website and graphic design tips to empower and support you.

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Our formula for a speaker page that stands out and connects

If one of your lead generation activities is speaking to new audiences, the speaker page on your website can make sharing and booking speaking engagements so much easier! This is our favourite formula for speaker pages, so that anyone arriving at the page can quickly figure out if: your message aligns with their audience​ you...

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How podcasting can be your most powerful networking tool

When people think of podcasting, they likely picture a studio setup—fancy mics, a big audience, and maybe even a high-ticket sponsor.  As a Social Media and Podcasting agency, we’ve heard just about every excuse for not starting a podcast; ‘I don’t have a big following’, ‘I don’t want to be famous’, ‘I’m not sure who...

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Strategic brand photography that works with your website: a photographer’s guide to planning visual content that converts

You’ve invested in a beautiful website, strategically built, mobile-responsive, and designed to convert. But if your imagery doesn’t match that same level of intention, something will feel off. As a personal brand photographer in Toronto, I specialize in brand photography experiences that go beyond the lens to create visual content that tells your brand story...

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Inkling Design's Website Planning Roadmap

Free guide – The Website Planning Roadmap

Getting ready for your new website and don’t know where to begin?

We are on a mission to take the overwhelm out of websites and bring beautiful, functional, easy-to-maintain websites to heart-centered businesses, so that you have a professional presence online.

We are so happy to share this Website Planning Roadmap with you and hope you’ll find it helpful as you begin your new web journey or set out to make your existing site do more for your business and brand.

guest post by Mel at Tripod Business Services

5 copy mistakes that are costing you clients (even if your website looks great)

Let’s start with the obvious: your website is important. It’s your first impression. Your storefront. Your hardest-working salesperson. And if you’re working with Inkling Design, you know it’s going to look great and you’ll be proud to tell people about it. (I should know – they did mine!)  But even Inkling Design-level design cannot save...

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What Ikea’s user experience showed me

I love a smooth and easy customer experience – most of us do, and honestly, most of us don’t even notice the customer journey. Until we have a negative experience where things just don’t flow. I recently had a bumpy customer journey with Ikea (they are known for a good in-store experience, but the experience...

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What story is your brand telling?

Ever wonder what stories other people may be telling themselves about you, if you are not telling them your story? Read on below for a recent interaction at the gym and how it reminded me of the power of sharing your story – and what happens when you don’t! Monday mornings I start my day with...

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Does your brand need a spring cleaning?

If your branding or website feels a bit off it can be tempting to burn it all down and start fresh, or bury your head in the sand and avoid the problem completely. Here are a few things you can do if you have the itch to spring clean your business – without overcommitting! When...

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Are you sharing your unique perspective with the world?

There is a lot of noise out there and sometimes it’s hard to know if you are truly connecting with the human behind a small business, or if they have copied and paste how they think you should be connecting using AI. And sometimes it’s very obvious! We write our newsletter and blog posts ourselves instead of...

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How to know if a new trend will work for your brand?

The biggest mistake we see businesses make when they follow trends is taking a try and see approach that leads to confusion with their audience. Consistency builds trust and trying out new trending fonts, colours, layouts, and looks without a strategy could break that trust. See a new trend that you want to try? Ask yourself these...

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