A couple of days ago I was talking about small business advertising and you can find that piece, and a photo, here.

Most of the graphic at the top of the newspaper advertisment came from a business card we designed for the owner of that business. And along with the order for that business card came an order for a website that we subsequently built for the owner of the business. (It’s very pleasing to be able to tell you that the website is already bringing in sales.)

Yesterday that newspaper ad – and the graphic – caught the eye of a resort owner over on Fraser Island (that’s a major tourist spot near where we live) and she contacted the guy we did the work for to see if he could recommend anyone to build a website from scratch for them.

He recommended us and now we’re meeting to discuss a fairly major project for our small business.

It’s funny how an initial order that was worth maybe $150 for the design of that card can lead to so much more.