In this post, you’ll find 55 brilliantly designed business cards to help inspire you on your way of creating your own.  The business card is one of the lasting memories of one’s brand image, and is typically the one physical item that your client will take away from a meeting.  It should be memorable, readable, organized, and in some cases, even functional.

So check out these awesome business cards, and if you have one, show us in the comments!  Also, don’t forget to enter the business card giveaway, because everyone could use some free business cards.

UPrinting offers a wide variety of products that range from business cards to envelope printing.  This means that whether you are a small business owner looking to expand your market with flyer printing or a proud parent looking to create holiday greeting cards or postcards from a photo of your kids, UPrinting can help you by offering quality discount printing and online design help.  UPrinting’s dedication to quality and strong ties to the design community make them a great choice for all your promotional printing needs.

The requirements are included below.  Good luck everyone, and be sure to check out UPrinting.com for your printing needs.

Prize: 500 Business Cards for One (1) Winner

• Sizes:  2 x 3.5”, 2 x 3”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.5 x 3.5” (slim card)
• Paper: 14 pt gloss cardstock, 14 pt matte cardstock or 13 pt recycled uncoated cardstock
• Specifications: Full Color Both Sides; Offset Press; 3 Business Day Printing
• Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping (Limited to US residents only, international shipping costs extra).

Entry Requirements:

• Leave a comment, filling in the name and email address fields with valid information.
• Subscribe for free RSS updates (either via reader or email).
• Optionally, tweet this post.

Duration and Winner Selection:

• 7 day duration (ends 3/16/2010)
• Winner selected at random using Random.org’s number generator, based upon comment #.

In this article, Adriana will walk you through a detailed scenario for keyword research, and she will help you explore the various ways that you can perform keyword research.

Hopefully you find this article useful, and as always, comments and discussion are welcomed.

Let’s do some research for “baby strollers” using different tools, and see what we come up with.

1. Baby Strollers research at Ebay.com – let’s see what we can find out from Ebay. If I enter “baby stroller” on the search box at eBay, I’ll immediately see several key phrases in a drop down: write each one of them in a notepad, and then continue your search by clicking on the search button. Once on the next page, click on the word stroller at the top of the navigation, and on the next page you’ll find different brands and types of strollers: more keywords for you. You can continue by clicking on “more…” and dig as deep as you like.

2. Another way to find keywords for your niche is Amazon.com - you pretty much start the same way as you did with eBay, by entering your main keyword in the search box. Again, you’ll be provided with a first set of key phrases, which, as you’ll see, are different from those we got from eBay.

From the drop down, pick the baby strollers in the baby category and click go. On the next page, click on the word Strollers (you’ll see it on the left navigation, right at the top), and you’ll find a lot more information there: stroller types, stroller brands, etc.

3. Next, let’s see how Shopping.com may help us find even more key phrases. At the bottom of the page, you’ll, see a link to “top searchers”. Click on that and it will take you to the Consumer Demand Index. From there, scroll down until you see Strollers (it’s in alphabetical order), and click on that. And on the next page, you’ll find the top 100 key phrases searched for by shoppers: a wealth of information, as these are actual phrases buyers are searching for.

4. Google product search is another option: go to http://www.google.com/products and enter your key phrase in there. In our case, baby strollers: again, you’ll see a drop down with lots of phrases, and again they are different from what we found before. The procedure is very similar with what we did before: click on the strollers in the navigation, you’ll be taken to another page with more info about brands and stores you can find strollers at. Again, dig as deep as you want. You’ll also see different strollers for sale, and if you sift through those you’ll find long tail keywords that you can rank easily for. Visitors coming through these searches are ready to buy as they are already at the end of their research: they already know the brand they want.

5. And lastly, go to yahoo product search: http://shopping.yahoo.com and enter in your phrase: baby strollers in our case. On the next page, scroll down all the way and you’ll see “top searches” and “top brands”. At the top of that page you’ll also see long tail key phrases, similarly to Google products search. Again, these will be very easy to rank for and people will have their credit cards out, ready to buy.

If you gather all the information form these sources, you’ll be way ahead of your competition, and you’ll have a good number of ideas for your niche.

In this post, we’ve rounded up 30 marvelous nighttime photographs from some of the best photographers in the world.  The northern lights, majestic starscapes, bridges shrouded in fog, and striking buildings against the night sky are only a few of the incredible sights below.

Enjoy the photographs, and be sure to visit each artist’s page by clicking on the photograph!  Thanks to the members of Flickr, deviantART and 1x.com for taking these beautiful photographs.

In this post, Ben from PixelClouds has rounded up 15 fresh and inspirational logos to help you understand the logo and show some great examples of creativity at the same time.  These logos are definitely eye catching, and almost always indicate something about the business or the name.

Hopefully you like the logos!  Don’t forget to subscribe.

1. Metro Mobile

2. Odorox Air

3. Karin Stolk

4. Otis

5. Exotiq Living

6. OYA Energy

7. BAMA

8. Dreamz

9. CloudCorner

10. 365 Design

11. Vibrands

12.Get Wired

13. Invisible Agents

14. Unay Outdoor

15. The Creative Company