The first quarter of the year is my favorite time to rethink my goals and plan out how I want to reach audiences for the coming months. Yes, I know most businesses spend the last quarter of the year focused on these items, but I’ve found by that point I’m exhausted and dreaming up great ideas is hard. Perhaps I have a different view because I am a super small business owner, or maybe it is just how my brain is wired, but the start of a new year comes as a clean slate to me. It’s perfect for planning.

This year, I spent January planning out the entire year. During my planning sessions, I put into practice a 5 step plan to help me plan how the Peach would be seen.

It’s the week of LOVE y’all! Instead of sharing all the mushy, gushy about my handsome husband or super kiddos, I decided to share some of the cool trends coming in 2019 that I’m very much in LOVE with. Of course, there are several blogs and design magazines out there who call for all kinds of crazy trends, but these are my fave…

I had illusions of grandeur… you know, have all of the things ready for the business when the clock hit midnight on December 31st. I took some time off around the holidays and had every intention to spend some of that down time to pour into my business, plan out my marketing, design ads for the Peach and beautiful graphics to accompany all of the eloquently written blogs I was going to write.

During the hustle of January I learned a few things that I’m going to put into practice in 2019 that will help me SIMPLIFY. (Yeah, that is going to be my word for the year.)

I love a good website... and by good, I mean well thought out, branded, informational goodness that showcases all of the awesome things a business provides to it's clients. No, it doesn't need to be flashy, it just needs to LOOK like your business (branding, y'all). Today, I want to chat about five ways a professional website will help your business.

Our mission statement starts out saying, "The Savvy Peach is a full service graphic design agency providing effective and beautiful designs that will captivate your target market - without the high costs and long project turnaround." It's true, but what does that mean? And how can that translate into projects that are important to you and your own business? Although we would love to partner with every business to get a little peachy flare into their marketing, sometimes it just isn't a good fit.