Our Blog Posts
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Pedal for Scotland: MadeBrave® Team Challenge
Teams across the nation – get your spandex at the ready! As you may (or may not) know, we’ve been working with the guys over at Pedal for Scotland for a number of years now. But this year we decided to go big and…
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MadeBrave® Business Cards
Christmas came early at the MadeBrave® studio. We’re going to keep this short and sweet to let these absolute beauties speak for themselves. Behold, the shiny new quadplex MadeBrave® and MadeSocial business cards. Like beautiful black and teal sandwiches *sigh*.
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Business Stream: Fortune Favours the Bold Event
When does being bold in business bring success? It’s a question that caught our attention, simply because it’s something we can relate to. Scotland’s largest provider of water services, Business Stream, approached our Andrew to talk at the launch of their ‘Bold’ white paper, which takes…
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Scottish Business Awards: We’re Nominated
Just when we thought Friday couldn’t get any better, we opened an envelope and BOOM! We have been nominated for ‘Tech Company of the Year’ at the Scottish Business Awards. Tell you one thing, we haven’t seen a group of people as excited about a piece…
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How to Write a Killer Twitter Bio
160 characters. One chance to shine. This might sound like the strapline for Rocky 9 (Stallone, you’ve still got it) but we’re actually talking about Twitter, more specifically, your bio. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Twitter, your bio is essentially the “about us” section of your profile…
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How-Old.net: How Old Are We?
We decided to give Microsoft’s How-Old.net a try… And wish we hadn’t. You might have noticed a lot of photos with funny looking yellow squares above them and a number housed inside: This is due to Microsoft’s new website, How-Old.net that guesses people’s age by photos…
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MadeBrave® Review: The Apple Watch
We’re Apple daft at MadeBrave® (by Apple, we mean the brand, although we do have a penchant for the occasional Granny Smith) so when they announced the Apple Watch (yep, not iWatch) we could feel our hearts racing faster and our bank accounts recoiling…
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Our New Studio: Home is where the Mac is
We’ve arrived! After a weekend of heavy lifting, cleaning and multiple Ikea trips, operation #MadeBraveOnTheMove is officially complete. We’ve been talking about moving to our new home, The Albus for quite a while now and today marks the very first page of…
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Should I Boost My Social Media Posts?
The answer is YES. It’s an age-old question, right up there with ‘why are we here?’ or ‘does my butt look big in this?’ – should I boost my posts? Yes, you most certainly should. Back in the old days, social media was almost a…
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MadeBrave® Studio: It’s Hammer Time
It’s all systems go for the new MadeBrave® studio. Stop – hammer time! Or spanner time, it all depends on the required tool really. Our pals from Studio Joinery are hard at work at our new HQ, putting together everything from…
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What is Branding?
Branding began in the cattle fields. Stay with us, it’s a true story. Farmers realised that they needed to be able to identify their own cattle – just in case they wandered off down the pub for a pint, or went to visit their pal in the next door neighbour’s field.
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MadeBrave®: We’re Moving!
We’re movin’ on up and movin’ on out to The Albus building in Bridgeton, Glasgow. It seemed like yesterday we were moving MadeBrave® into Studio 404 in South Block, but this time there’s going to be a lot more heavy lifting – so much so, we’re thinking of…
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