We love Mother Earth at The Image Shoppe! In honor of Earth Day, we’ve established some simple, pretty cool tips to make your office more earth friendly while lessening your footprint.

As someone who has spent the past 10 years advocating for our local economy and the local business environment, it’s important to me to invite you to the Local First Sustainable Business Conference.

There’s no denying social media’s capacity to launch a new product, build support for your cause or draw customers to your business. There’s also no denying that it can be extremely frustrating to develop and maintain a strong, functional and highly effective social media presence. We put together 7 Tips that will help you not only get social, but get ahead of the crowd.

With information and data so easily accessible today, it can be difficult to decipher what it all means and how to effectively use it. Thankfully, the world of information graphics is here to help your clients better understand what you are trying to say.

There are those times when we receive or see an email that looks like someone had a tactile seizure on their keyboard, though we’re pretty sure that they sent what they thought was a great email. Well, it wasn't. Matter of fact, it was SMURFED up. We didn't read your email. We didn't even mark it as spam. Just deleted it. Prayed to the email deities and hoped that never again would we have to see anything like that. But we did.

Retail can—and should be—revolutionary. Believe it or not, Karl Marx had some very keen observations about retail. Okay, so maybe he wasn't talking directly about retail, but when you take his five steps of revolution and throw them into the retail context, it's downright cathartic.

Have you heard the news about Facebook? No, Mark Zuckerberg is not running for President. Facebook fan pages have, however, moved to the timeline format and this is very cool news indeed!

I have a confession to make: I am sick of all the branding hype. For all of the conferences and conversations with proselytizing pundits, there are precious few people who can tell you how to simply and easily convert brand mastery into greater sales. And that, after all, should be the point, shouldn’t it?

As we were looking for some images for a client the other day, we came across Local First images from 2004. That took us down memory lane for a moment...

I'm sure you've been there. You're in the middle of completing a campaign with your agency, and what you get back is good, but misses the mark in some way. Before you fire off an email or tell the designer that it "misses the mark in some way," let's take a moment to think about feedback. More specifically, specific feedback.