Matt Blancarte dot Com Design – Business – Two Cents

Creating a startup business that grows to scale and success can be the most rewarding experience in your entrepreneurial career, but where do you start when you have little to no capital to get it off of the ground? There are several criteria that you need to cover, and challenges that you must overcome, prior to even considering making your first presentation to investors.

The Big Idea

So, you’ve got the world’s greatest idea for a business plan. You’re excited beyond belief because you are sure that THIS plan is going to be the one that puts you and your business on the map. These are a few questions that you need to immediately address.

• Is this concept remotely realistic (e.g. Flying Hover Car vs. E-Book)?
• If you went through with design and development, would anyone even want to spend their money on such an idea?
• Do your potential customers HAVE the extra money to…

Are you the type of person that finds yourself lacking motivation? Do you wake up in the morning with the dreadful feeling that you have to actually go through with the day. What is making you feel this way ? Is it something or someone manipulating you? It happens to be both…

You are feeling what a large number of people feel. You happen to be in a position that isn’t very favorable to you, and so you end up being affected by it. Even though you might have to get up and go to a job that you don’t enjoy, you don’t have to let it affect the rest of your day. I happen to love what I do for a living, but even if you don’t you can take heed to this article. Here are some things that I try to do everyday to rid myself of negative thoughts.

Where…

I have decided to sharpen my design skills by taking on a new hobby. I am going to be designing and distributing free blog templates for wordpress. How am I doing this? Well I am not going to go into detail, but I will give you an idea of the process that I use. Aside from honing my design skills, I will be building an army of links. Did I hear somebody say SEO?

First, I start a new photoshop project. I build the template visually, element by element. When I finish the photoshop file it ends up looking something like this:

After the design work has been done, it is time to dissect the design and build individual elements into a wordpress template. Now, it is time to talk about why this is such a benefit to me and the sites I choose to embed links for.

A huge part of your…