Blogging is an amazing way to connect with clients and become a go-to resource about your area of expertise. But blogs are most useful if they’re easy to find and read! This is where categories come in. You can organize all the blogs on your site into categories, making them manageable for you and your readers. Think of it like …
Top 5 Plugins for WordPress
If you know our website-building and design company, you know we like WordPress—a lot. It’s a powerful website builder and we use it to showcase clients, keep them connected and offer online services. Some of the best functionality from WordPress comes from plugins. If you aren’t using plugins on your WordPress site, you are missing a lot of resources for …
5 Free Printables to Amp Up Your Online Graphics
Downloading printables is an awesome, easy way to freshen up your graphic designs and increase your social engagement. You do not have to reinvent the wheel here! Pinterest, graphic design sites, Etsy and independent artists are all fabulous resources for content you can customize and use for your own business. With summer coming up fast, we’re loving these fresh and …
Busting Myths About Website Design
Effective web design that invites visitors to each page—and converts them into customers—isn’t as easy to achieve as you might think. In our experience, there are several thoughts and theories about web design that simply aren’t true. We’re debunking our top five most common myths below, in hopes that it makes your web design process a little easier. Websites are …
How a Hobby Blog Became a Business
Hi, y’all, it’s Amber, and I’m here to tell you my story on how I turned my hobby blog into an award winning business while only working part-time! Blogging has landed me incredible opportunities including features on The Today Show, Cosmopolitan, Parade, Country Living and more, and has given me gigs like my current position at Green Bag Designs. The …
How the Heck to Use a Hashtag
If you thought Instagram was a tween trend of 2010, that ship has sailed. It’s 2018, Instagram and Facebook are in bed and the rest of the world is eager to get in. New Instagram updates are rolling out hot, like the announcement that you can pre-schedule and automatically post content (Read Hootsuite’s guide >> How To Share Post Directly …
Happy Anniversary Photos
You guys, we had an incredible photo shoot for our 5 year anniversary! Check out our photos below!
Our Top Five Successes
I’m so glad that we can put our hurdles behind us and celebrate our top five big successes from the past five years! Celebrate with us on our successes below: Getting our first client When I started this business, I looked on Craigslist for some of our first clients. After several failed meetings, and more than one sketchy encounter, we …
Our Top Five Hurdles
“The road to success is not a path you find but a trail you blaze.” – Robert Brault In the five years that we’ve been in business, Green Bag Designs has had some big wins, and some massive fails. Let’s chat about some of our big hurdles: We didn’t have a support system I’ve got to be honest; when I …
The Story Behind Green Bag Designs
When I was growing up, I was always running little businesses. I ran a pet-sitting business in my neighborhood, taught flute to a couple of kids in band, and had a brief stint making cupcakes out of my home. I also spent my time playing computer games on a floppy drive, and making random geocities sites about my friend’s cat. …