Monthly Archives: October 2010

Funny Friday: Newspaper headlines

As well as checking your spelling and grammar it is also important to check the phrasing of your work to avoid sentences like those below: “Two sisters reunited after 18 years in checkout counter” “Stolen painting found by tree” “Hospitals … Continue reading

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Preparing your Christmas cards

Although Christmas may seem a long way off, it will be soon approaching, meaning it is never to early to begin making appropriate plans. Most of us know that leaving our Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve will result in a … Continue reading

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Funny Friday: Pie’s and Burgers

This fast food stall seems to be hedging its bets: “If we include one word with an apostrophe and one without, we’ve got a 50/50 chance of something being correct.”

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Key dates and events for quarter four

National events and holidays can be a great excuse to implement a marketing campaign and to draw attention to your business. As well as national holidays and celebrations, it is also worth investigating industry specific events and even some of … Continue reading

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Funny Friday: Job Adverts

Strictly speaking, there might not be any typos in these job adverts but the author would have done well to have a second read. “Man wanted to work in dynamite factory. Must be willing to travel.” “Wanted: Hair-cutter. Excellent growth … Continue reading

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Tips for creating the perfect business cards

Regular readers may have noticed that we have covered business cards extensively on our blog in the past. However, given their importance we have compiled a succinct, top five tips that cover the essentials of designing and printing this item. … Continue reading

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Funny Friday: Directions

Think these signs speak for themselves…

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Work We Love: Hazel Bee

As you know, there’s no rest for the wicked here at Solopress, with a fairly hefty number of jobs signed off and printed every day.  Sometimes though, we receive such an utterly brilliant or clever piece of design or artwork … Continue reading

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Funny Friday: Instructions

In our search to provide amusing errors it seems that typos and grammatical mistakes aren’t all we have to worry about. Here are some of our favourite but slightly silly instructions that we have come across: A competition advertised on … Continue reading

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