Category Archives: Small Business

Happy Labor Day from OrangeSlyce!

Happy Labor Day everyone!  We’re taking the day off to pay our respects to the labor gods.  Have a fun and safe holiday!

Breaking the Rules of Creative Work: Overcoming Writer’s Block

An incredibly destructive way to overcome writer’s block.

Business Cards: Finding a Professional Printer

A few weeks ago, we gave a few tips on how to design your business cards. Having a well made business card is one of the best investments for the money you can ever make.  That card costing pennies to make, could lead to that big sales deal worth thousands of dollars.  You may [...]

Single Item Products & One-Time Payments in Chargify

I usually don’t jump on and write blog entries (I leave that to better writers in the company). However, as the CEO and engineer behind OrangeSlyce, I know that this will help some startups looking to simplify billing with Chargify. For those of you who don’t know, Chargify is an easy-to-use service to manage recurring [...]

Business Continuity Plans: How to Survive Acts of God, Hackers and Terrorists

Customers and employees come and go and fads roll in and out like the tides.  However, businesses and industries try to make plans for these changes.  The universe never gives us a sure thing when it comes to life or business.  A wise Air Force captain once said “Anything that can go wrong, will go [...]

Student Spotlight: Nicole Kutz

Meet our second student of the month:  Nicole Kutz!  Nicole is a very talented and driven Art Studies major in her senior year at Arizona State University.  After creating exceptional work for us at OrangeSlyce, we realized that this gem of an artist should be our next Student Spotlight.  We asked Nicole a few questions [...]

5 Facts about Small Business that Everyone Thinks Are True

Lots of people have toyed with the idea of starting their own business, becoming their own boss, or somehow changing the world.  However, most people are downtrodden by bullet points that have been engrained in them, about how starting a business isn’t worth the trouble.  Today we’re going to put some of these ideas where [...]

Using Twitter Effectively: Seven Guidelines Every Business Should Follow

We suggested that businesses get a Twitter page, but we left you all hanging–we didn’t tell you how to do it. Social Media platforms are a potentially effective tool, but, like any tool, you don’t get much out of them if you don’t know how to use them. With that in mind, here are some quick, dirty guidelines.

Design by Design: The New OrangeSlyce

The goal of OrangeSlyce has always been to build a platform for students and small businesses to connect as two perfect entrepreneurial complements. Each group offers the other unique growth opportunities that OrangeSlyce is built to cultivate. Since the launch of the website, we have identified an opportunity to simplify and ease the connection between students and [...]

Influencing Behavior with Design

When designing anything, it’s easy to get caught in a trap of only focusing on the visual aesthetic or making it catch your eye.  Often times design can serve much more engaging purposes.  We’ve talked about services that show you what people look at when they visit your site.  It’s an important tool.  But what [...]