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PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN MAY
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Ultimate Guide to Starting an Ethical Business
Our ultimate guide to starting an ethical business will answer your questions and get you ready to bring your new ethical idea to life.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN April
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Internet Usage: The Secret Polluter
Internet usage is a major emitter of carbon emissions. But, there are lots of things we can do to reduce our impact and digital carbon footprint.
Lead Magnets: The What, Why and How
The reality is that a lead magnet is an essential aspect of any business’s digital marketing strategy, so if you haven’t got one already read on and find out why and how to get magnetic!
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN MARCH
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How We Run An Ethical & Sustainable Design Agency
An agency that puts people and planet before profits sounds lovely, but, how do we do it? How do we run an ethical and sustainable design agency?
Cruelty-Free, Eco-Friendly, Vegan Printing
You’d be forgiven for not realising that printing can be a contributor to animal exploitation. But, that doesn’t mean you have to compromise on your ethics, because there are great options for cruelty-free, vegan printing.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN February
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Die Hard IS a Christmas movie – The Facts
Put the is it/isn’t it argument behind you with our definitive infographic that proves, without doubt, that YES, Die Hard IS a Christmas Movie.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN JANUARY
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How To Create Engaging Email Marketing
Email is a powerful marketing tool but it’s so easy to get it wrong. So we’re here to help you go from inbox spam to inbox gold and maximise your ROI.
Plan your promos: Awareness Days in December
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Ten Great Eco-Friendly Promotional Gifts
It’s time to stop the flow of tat and time to start the flow of goodies people will want to keep, with our compilation of ten environmentally friendly promotional gifts.
Plan your promos: Awareness Days in November
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Strengthen your brand with good colour usage
The colours you use in a design can have a massive effect on how an audience reacts to it. Follow this simple guide to help you choose the right ones for your message.
Plan your promos: Awareness days in October
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages Explained
What are Accelerated Mobile Pages and do you need them? We give you the key pros and cons of accelerated mobile pages to help you decide whether to add them to your website.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Turbocharge your website in seven simple ways
Waiting ten minutes for a webpage to load is a thing of the past. Or at least it should be. A fast loading speed for your website is essential in 2020. Users expect nothing less…
The Pros & Cons of Using Online Website Builders
They look like a great deal right?! Well, they can be, but they’re also not right for every business and there are some key things you should know before using one. We’ve compiled the pros and cons of using online website builders so you know the deal before you click that button.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN AUGUST
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How To Secure Your Website In Seven Easy Steps
Did you know that hacking is the number one method of data breaches online, accounting for 61.9% of lost information? There’s a cyber attack attempted every 39 seconds, of every hour, of every day.
That’s a lot.
And 43% of those cyberattacks target small businesses. That too is a lot.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN JULY
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How To Design An Effective Print Advert
There’s a lot of noise out there. And a lot of businesses competing to grab the publics attention and get their message heard. Not only that, advertising space can be expensive. So we want to share a top tip for how you can design an advert.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN JUNE
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How to Analyse (and improve) Your Website
You should be analysing your site regularly to make sure it’s delivering the best user experience for your target market. In turn, delivering the most leads and sales. But, if you’re not used to it, it may be hard to work out what to look at when you start to analyse your website.
Twenty-One Working From Home Hacks
Working from home can be incredibly liberating. But, if you’re not used to it it can be hard to find your rhythm. We’ve pulled together our top 21 working from home hacks to help you get the most out of your working days.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN MAY
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How to use a Zoom Virtual Background
If you’ve been on a Zoom meeting lately you may have noticed some attendees appear to be sat on tropical beaches, or in deserted cafes and football grounds. Or, some may have professionally branded backgrounds. This is all thanks to Zoom’s virtual background feature and we’re going to explain how to use it.
Everything You Need to Know About Zoom
We don’t know about you, but Zoom has fast become our first choice for video meetings, conferences, networking and even drinks with friends. It’s a fantastic tool and we’re here to tell you everything you need to know about Zoom, so you can make the most of it for your business.
Fifteen Things to do When Business is Slow
There’s no hiding from it, things are going to get tough for businesses all over the world in the next few months thanks to Covid lockdowns. We’ve compiled a list of 15 things you can do when business is slow to make the most them.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN APRIL
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How To Work Remotely with a Graphic Designer
If you’re used to working in the traditional in-person way, then going solely online can seem a bit daunting. So, let’s break the whole process down, so you can feel confident that a remote working process isn’t any less creative, exciting and productive.
GDPR, Legitimate Interest and Recital 47
GDPR has been giving data controllers, marketers and business owners the fear ever since it came into force across Europe on the 25th May 2018. However, thanks to a little known clause, namely ‘recital 47’, it’s not quite as scary as you’d think.
But, before we dive into what recital 47 means let’s have a quick recap.
Three ways to Optimise Your Website Images
We could go on for reams and reams about all the details and different ways to optimise your images. But, we’re keeping it simple with the three most effective ways you can optimise your website images
Why you should optimise your website images
Optimising an image is a process where you create a top-quality image whilst maintaining the smallest file size you can. It’s not an easy job but it is vital for any website, especially an e-commerce site as they are hugely image reliant.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN MARCH
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
The basics of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It’s a process where the content on your website or blog is written, designed and labelled in a way that makes it easy for search engines to crawl (read) your content and index (add) it to their database so that your site and content is listed in their results.
How to Self Publish A Book in Seven Steps
Publishing a book is an exciting prospect and one that’s becoming easier and easier to do. Whether you have a story you’re dying to tell, or are an expert in your field who’s keen to share their knowledge, read on to find out how to self publish a book.
Why Good Copy is importanter than you think
Copy (also known as “words”) is an area that is often undervalued and overlooked, but is something that can truly make the difference between a potential customer using your product or service, or your competitors. For this post we’re handing over to copy guru Jamie to tell you a bit more…
How Much Does A Website Cost? Erm, Well…
How Much Does a Website Cost?This is probably one of the most common questions we get asked. But, it’s not always an easy one to answer. There’s a huge amount that goes into creating a great quality website, and so much that needs to be ready before you can even start to build one.
How To OFFSET Your Carbon Emissions
It’s all about how you can offset the carbon emissions that you can’t reduce. It’s not an ideal solution, ideally we’d create zero emissions, but unless we stop breathing that ain’t gonna happen. So the main solution to this is, you guessed it, carbon offsetting.
Is It Worth Paying For A Custom Designed Logo?
A logo is one of the first things you need to launch your new business. A quick google search for a logo design throws up pages and pages of free logo generators. So it leaves you with the question, is it worth paying for a custom logo design?
What Exactly Is A ‘Responsive’ Website?
Simply put, a responsive website is a site that’s designed to display clearly on any device. There shouldn’t be any content that you have to scroll left or right to see, and there should be no need to zoom in. The site responds automatically to the device it’s viewed on.
How To Grow Your Social Media Following
Social media isn’t a numbers game, it’s an engagement game. If you have thousands of followers but zero engagement, you’ll be deemed spam and won’t be shown.
So, what do you do to grow your social media audience?
Freebie Alert! Monkey Island Wallpaper
Monkey Beach. A place home to a huge troop of Macaque monkeys – infamous for their snatch and grab style and nibbling on over-confident humans. We were treated to some curious, gentle attention and Lee got claimed as territory by one little guy. Best day ever.
Where the name Kakadu Creative Comes From
Short story time… First, let’s take you back to where it all began. Lee had been working as a freelance Art Editor and graphic designer for almost 10 years. And Kayleigh had been working in marketing and advertising sales for even longer than that.
Why You Need Proper Website Management
Why Manage A Website?You invest in a logo and brand identity, then you commission a beautiful website. Now all that’s left is to invest in your advertising and marketing, right?… You still need to invest in your website. Website management is one of THE MOST important...
Free Lake Cockatoo Wallpaper
We drove our office in the dead of night to the end of a creepy farm track in the middle of nowhere, somewhere South of Adelaide. Allegedly a legit ‘free camping site’, Lake Cockatoo turned out to be one of our favourite places for a bit of shut-eye on our trip. OK, we couldn’t actually see any of it ’til the morning, but just look at that night sky!
Free Kakadu T-shirts …Well, Technically
Free T-shirts!**In the form of business cardsBrand new, box-fresh business cards have just landed at Kakadu HQ! Now there’s nothing quite like that “Fresh off the press” whiff, but even that isn’t a patch on how nice these cards feel when we run our fingers across...
Freebie Alert! Twelve Apostles Wallpaper
The latest free wallpaper is a shot from our trip through Australia in 2018.
On the Great Ocean Road is ‘The 12 Apostles’ – a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park in Victoria, Australia.
For reference, check out the size of the helicopter, and the walkway packed with tourists to get an idea of just how massive this site is.
3,2,1… Lift Off! Launching Kakadu Creative
You only get to launch your business once. So when it came time to launching Kakadu Creative we wanted to do it somewhere we love. Amsterdam. This city is one of our favourite places on the planet.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN MAY
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Ultimate Guide to Starting an Ethical Business
Our ultimate guide to starting an ethical business will answer your questions and get you ready to bring your new ethical idea to life.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN April
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Internet Usage: The Secret Polluter
Internet usage is a major emitter of carbon emissions. But, there are lots of things we can do to reduce our impact and digital carbon footprint.
Lead Magnets: The What, Why and How
The reality is that a lead magnet is an essential aspect of any business’s digital marketing strategy, so if you haven’t got one already read on and find out why and how to get magnetic!
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN MARCH
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How We Run An Ethical & Sustainable Design Agency
An agency that puts people and planet before profits sounds lovely, but, how do we do it? How do we run an ethical and sustainable design agency?
Cruelty-Free, Eco-Friendly, Vegan Printing
You’d be forgiven for not realising that printing can be a contributor to animal exploitation. But, that doesn’t mean you have to compromise on your ethics, because there are great options for cruelty-free, vegan printing.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN February
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Die Hard IS a Christmas movie – The Facts
Put the is it/isn’t it argument behind you with our definitive infographic that proves, without doubt, that YES, Die Hard IS a Christmas Movie.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN JANUARY
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How To Create Engaging Email Marketing
Email is a powerful marketing tool but it’s so easy to get it wrong. So we’re here to help you go from inbox spam to inbox gold and maximise your ROI.
Plan your promos: Awareness Days in December
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Ten Great Eco-Friendly Promotional Gifts
It’s time to stop the flow of tat and time to start the flow of goodies people will want to keep, with our compilation of ten environmentally friendly promotional gifts.
Plan your promos: Awareness Days in November
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Strengthen your brand with good colour usage
The colours you use in a design can have a massive effect on how an audience reacts to it. Follow this simple guide to help you choose the right ones for your message.
Plan your promos: Awareness days in October
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages Explained
What are Accelerated Mobile Pages and do you need them? We give you the key pros and cons of accelerated mobile pages to help you decide whether to add them to your website.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
Turbocharge your website in seven simple ways
Waiting ten minutes for a webpage to load is a thing of the past. Or at least it should be. A fast loading speed for your website is essential in 2020. Users expect nothing less…
The Pros & Cons of Using Online Website Builders
They look like a great deal right?! Well, they can be, but they’re also not right for every business and there are some key things you should know before using one. We’ve compiled the pros and cons of using online website builders so you know the deal before you click that button.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN AUGUST
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How To Secure Your Website In Seven Easy Steps
Did you know that hacking is the number one method of data breaches online, accounting for 61.9% of lost information? There’s a cyber attack attempted every 39 seconds, of every hour, of every day.
That’s a lot.
And 43% of those cyberattacks target small businesses. That too is a lot.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN JULY
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How To Design An Effective Print Advert
There’s a lot of noise out there. And a lot of businesses competing to grab the publics attention and get their message heard. Not only that, advertising space can be expensive. So we want to share a top tip for how you can design an advert.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN JUNE
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How to Analyse (and improve) Your Website
You should be analysing your site regularly to make sure it’s delivering the best user experience for your target market. In turn, delivering the most leads and sales. But, if you’re not used to it, it may be hard to work out what to look at when you start to analyse your website.
Twenty-One Working From Home Hacks
Working from home can be incredibly liberating. But, if you’re not used to it it can be hard to find your rhythm. We’ve pulled together our top 21 working from home hacks to help you get the most out of your working days.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN MAY
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How to use a Zoom Virtual Background
If you’ve been on a Zoom meeting lately you may have noticed some attendees appear to be sat on tropical beaches, or in deserted cafes and football grounds. Or, some may have professionally branded backgrounds. This is all thanks to Zoom’s virtual background feature and we’re going to explain how to use it.
Everything You Need to Know About Zoom
We don’t know about you, but Zoom has fast become our first choice for video meetings, conferences, networking and even drinks with friends. It’s a fantastic tool and we’re here to tell you everything you need to know about Zoom, so you can make the most of it for your business.
Fifteen Things to do When Business is Slow
There’s no hiding from it, things are going to get tough for businesses all over the world in the next few months thanks to Covid lockdowns. We’ve compiled a list of 15 things you can do when business is slow to make the most them.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN APRIL
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
How To Work Remotely with a Graphic Designer
If you’re used to working in the traditional in-person way, then going solely online can seem a bit daunting. So, let’s break the whole process down, so you can feel confident that a remote working process isn’t any less creative, exciting and productive.
GDPR, Legitimate Interest and Recital 47
GDPR has been giving data controllers, marketers and business owners the fear ever since it came into force across Europe on the 25th May 2018. However, thanks to a little known clause, namely ‘recital 47’, it’s not quite as scary as you’d think.
But, before we dive into what recital 47 means let’s have a quick recap.
Three ways to Optimise Your Website Images
We could go on for reams and reams about all the details and different ways to optimise your images. But, we’re keeping it simple with the three most effective ways you can optimise your website images
Why you should optimise your website images
Optimising an image is a process where you create a top-quality image whilst maintaining the smallest file size you can. It’s not an easy job but it is vital for any website, especially an e-commerce site as they are hugely image reliant.
PLAN YOUR PROMOS: AWARENESS DAYS IN MARCH
The listed ‘Awareness Days’ are a great opportunity for your business to run relevant promotions or create social media content that ties to the theme of the day.
The basics of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It’s a process where the content on your website or blog is written, designed and labelled in a way that makes it easy for search engines to crawl (read) your content and index (add) it to their database so that your site and content is listed in their results.
How to Self Publish A Book in Seven Steps
Publishing a book is an exciting prospect and one that’s becoming easier and easier to do. Whether you have a story you’re dying to tell, or are an expert in your field who’s keen to share their knowledge, read on to find out how to self publish a book.
Why Good Copy is importanter than you think
Copy (also known as “words”) is an area that is often undervalued and overlooked, but is something that can truly make the difference between a potential customer using your product or service, or your competitors. For this post we’re handing over to copy guru Jamie to tell you a bit more…
How Much Does A Website Cost? Erm, Well…
How Much Does a Website Cost?This is probably one of the most common questions we get asked. But, it’s not always an easy one to answer. There’s a huge amount that goes into creating a great quality website, and so much that needs to be ready before you can even start to build one.
How To OFFSET Your Carbon Emissions
It’s all about how you can offset the carbon emissions that you can’t reduce. It’s not an ideal solution, ideally we’d create zero emissions, but unless we stop breathing that ain’t gonna happen. So the main solution to this is, you guessed it, carbon offsetting.
Is It Worth Paying For A Custom Designed Logo?
A logo is one of the first things you need to launch your new business. A quick google search for a logo design throws up pages and pages of free logo generators. So it leaves you with the question, is it worth paying for a custom logo design?
What Exactly Is A ‘Responsive’ Website?
Simply put, a responsive website is a site that’s designed to display clearly on any device. There shouldn’t be any content that you have to scroll left or right to see, and there should be no need to zoom in. The site responds automatically to the device it’s viewed on.
How To Grow Your Social Media Following
Social media isn’t a numbers game, it’s an engagement game. If you have thousands of followers but zero engagement, you’ll be deemed spam and won’t be shown.
So, what do you do to grow your social media audience?
Freebie Alert! Monkey Island Wallpaper
Monkey Beach. A place home to a huge troop of Macaque monkeys – infamous for their snatch and grab style and nibbling on over-confident humans. We were treated to some curious, gentle attention and Lee got claimed as territory by one little guy. Best day ever.
Where the name Kakadu Creative Comes From
Short story time… First, let’s take you back to where it all began. Lee had been working as a freelance Art Editor and graphic designer for almost 10 years. And Kayleigh had been working in marketing and advertising sales for even longer than that.
Why You Need Proper Website Management
Why Manage A Website?You invest in a logo and brand identity, then you commission a beautiful website. Now all that’s left is to invest in your advertising and marketing, right?… You still need to invest in your website. Website management is one of THE MOST important...
Free Lake Cockatoo Wallpaper
We drove our office in the dead of night to the end of a creepy farm track in the middle of nowhere, somewhere South of Adelaide. Allegedly a legit ‘free camping site’, Lake Cockatoo turned out to be one of our favourite places for a bit of shut-eye on our trip. OK, we couldn’t actually see any of it ’til the morning, but just look at that night sky!
Free Kakadu T-shirts …Well, Technically
Free T-shirts!**In the form of business cardsBrand new, box-fresh business cards have just landed at Kakadu HQ! Now there’s nothing quite like that “Fresh off the press” whiff, but even that isn’t a patch on how nice these cards feel when we run our fingers across...
Freebie Alert! Twelve Apostles Wallpaper
The latest free wallpaper is a shot from our trip through Australia in 2018.
On the Great Ocean Road is ‘The 12 Apostles’ – a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park in Victoria, Australia.
For reference, check out the size of the helicopter, and the walkway packed with tourists to get an idea of just how massive this site is.
3,2,1… Lift Off! Launching Kakadu Creative
You only get to launch your business once. So when it came time to launching Kakadu Creative we wanted to do it somewhere we love. Amsterdam. This city is one of our favourite places on the planet.