How-to

Blog posts and video tutorials to help you navigate the how-to of the online business world.

Video Tutorials, Design, Canva Jennifer O'Keefe Video Tutorials, Design, Canva Jennifer O'Keefe

How to Edit Photos and GIFs Inside Canva

Photos are an essential part of design, whether you’re creating social media graphics, a sales pitch presentation, media kit, client work, or something else entirely. Creating collateral for your online business is easier than ever when you use Creative Template Shop templates plus Canva!

In this video tutorial, we’re showing you how to browse, change, and edit photos (and bonus - GIFs) inside your Canva to create effective, impactful designs for everything inside your business.

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Video Tutorials, Design, Canva Jennifer O'Keefe Video Tutorials, Design, Canva Jennifer O'Keefe

How to Edit Fonts Inside Canva

Canva is an easy-to-use tool to create beautiful, effective designs for your business whether you have design experience or not (especially combined with our strategic and beautiful Canva templates).

In this post and a quick video tutorial, we’re walking you through everything you need to know to get started editing fonts and text styles inside your Canva designs. We’ll cover font choices, using the “Change All” feature and copy/paste tools, font styling, and text effects. Scroll down to learn more!

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Video Tutorials, Design, Canva Jennifer O'Keefe Video Tutorials, Design, Canva Jennifer O'Keefe

How to Edit Colors in Canva

Canva is a powerful design tool that allows you to create beautiful, impactful things—think social media graphics, presentation decks, PDFs, and more—whether or not you have a design background.

Whether you’re just getting started using Canva, or you’ve been around the block for a while, we’re sharing the basics PLUS some of our favorite tips and tricks to changing colors of shapes, text, and graphics inside your Canva designs.

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How to Build Your Email List Fast

Believe it or not, email is still one of the best ways to market your business. It is estimated that there are 4 billion active email users right now (and that number is projected to increase). According to MarketingSherpa, email is STILL the most preferred marketing channel that most consumers want businesses to communicate with them through.

And not only is email your consumer’s favorite way of communicating but your list is YOURS. It belongs to you. If Instagram shuts your account down, you lose all of your followers. However, that email list you’ve built, you own it and will always be able to market to them.

So now that you know how important email is, you might be wondering how the heck you build an email list and fast? In this blog, we break down our best-kept secrets to build your email list.

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Revamp Your 9 Grid with FREE Social Media Canva Templates

Boost your engagement with 9 FREE Canva templates, designed to increase likes, shares, and comments.

Mockup of Instagram graphics in the 9-Grid Social Media pack, showing how you can customize it