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Brenda Stokes Barron is a professional writer and blogger and The Digital Inkwell is her personal brand. You can often find her typing furiously at her local Starbucks. (Yes, she's that person).
10 Beginner Audio Editing Tutorials for Adobe Audition

10 Beginner Audio Editing Tutorials for Adobe Audition

Video & Motion Design

These Adobe Audition tutorials have you covered whether to improve audio quality or need to learn how to edit recordings.

10+ Best Websites For Downloading Free Sound Effects

10+ Best Websites For Downloading Free Sound Effects

Video & Motion Design

Bring your podcasts, video games, or videos to life with a free sound effect that you can download from any one of these fantastic sites.

10 Tools & Applications for Creating Custom Fonts

10 Tools & Applications for Creating Custom Fonts

Fonts

A collection of applications and tools for designing professional and unique fonts. Add a custom font family to your next design project!

How to Build a WordPress Maintenance Service

How to Build a WordPress Maintenance Service

WordPress

One of the best parts about working with WordPress is the opportunity to expand your range and offer other much-needed services from the platform. So, even if your job title…

The 6 Best Sites for Downloading Free High-Definition Stock Videos

The 6 Best Sites for Downloading Free High-Definition Stock Videos

Video & Motion Design

Stock footage: You can use it in your projects, video backgrounds, or even in the header to welcome people to your website – among other uses. The problem? Video production…

15+ Free Mobile UI & Wireframe Kits for Sketch App

15+ Free Mobile UI & Wireframe Kits for Sketch App

UI Design

Collection of the best free mobile UIs and wireframe kits for Sketch App that you can use as a starting point for your next design.

The 5 Best Newsletters for Motion Designers & Videographers

The 5 Best Newsletters for Motion Designers & Videographers

Video & Motion Design

The best newsletters for videographers that will help you grow your business, hone your skills, and they also offer a few video freebies.

How to Scale Your Web Design Business

How to Scale Your Web Design Business

Freelance / WordPress

Strategies for scaling your web design business, from expanding services to hiring, to meet growing client demands.

The 5 Crucial Features of a High-Converting Landing Page

The 5 Crucial Features of a High-Converting Landing Page

UX Design

Convincing people to visit your website might be tough, but the real challenge is convincing them to convert once they get there. If your content marketing efforts, social media, and…

A Social Selling Startup Guide for Teams and Companies

A Social Selling Startup Guide for Teams and Companies

Marketing

There are few people who enjoy making an unsolicited promotion. Who wants to annoy others and possibly damage future sales chances? But for many, when the ads stop pulling in…

How to Increase B2B Sales by A/B Testing Your CTA

How to Increase B2B Sales by A/B Testing Your CTA

UX Design

There is a huge opportunity to make a sizeable income when you enter the B2B market. In fact, did you know that B2B companies generate more than double the revenue…

Why You Need to Prioritize PageSpeed in Discussions with Clients

Why You Need to Prioritize PageSpeed in Discussions with Clients

Web Design

For the past few years, small and medium businesses (SMBs) across the world have been told that making their websites mobile-friendly, and embracing a mobile-first world, were essential for business…

Blazing-Fast Managed WordPress Hosting with Kinsta Sponsored

Blazing-Fast Managed WordPress Hosting with Kinsta

WordPress

If you’re a savvy business owner, you understand the importance of having a reliable web host. A good hosting company can not only keep your site safe from hackers and…

​Top 5 Myths About Professional Indemnity Insurance for Freelancers Sponsored

​Top 5 Myths About Professional Indemnity Insurance for Freelancers

Freelance

Q: What’s less sexy than business insurance? A: Going out of business because you didn’t have business insurance. Designers, developers, artists — in fact, all kinds of creative workers who…

Should You Be Cutting Corners When Creating Content? (Absolutely!) Sponsored

Should You Be Cutting Corners When Creating Content? (Absolutely!)

Web Design

Henry Ford is a man who knew his stuff when it came to optimizing workflows. So when he spoke about how “most people spend more time and energy going around…

WooCommerce Design Tips You Need to Know

WooCommerce Design Tips You Need to Know

WordPress