Not being on Facebook gives me a new perspective on companies using Facebook for marketing. (And no, my perspective is not that I miss the marketing.)
The thing is that marketing doesn't reach people who are not on Facebook. Now, most social-media users are on Facebook, so if I were a marketer I wouldn't care about not...
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The brilliant and kind people at Flattr have deemed today to be a good day to take a few minutes to tangibly support the creators of the blogs we enjoy so much all year 'round. Here's the gist of Pay a Blogger Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApeZoOsfb1g&feature=youtu.be
Of course, Flattring content is a good and easy way to pay...
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Last week I received an email from a woman.
You are missing one of your important jobs on the list in your blog blurb. Mommy! Ya gotta ad that because it's the most important job you will EVER have!
I was on my ass with the flu at the time, which is why it's taken...
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I just finished reading the second book in an eventual trilogy that's already, in its unfinished state, found company amongst the most epic, popular and influential fantasy series of all time. The series is the Kingkiller Chronicle, by Patrick Rothfuss, and in addition to being a thoroughly engrossing story, it hits on some larger...
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Sean Low wrote a great short piece at DesignTAXI about not shortchanging the work we do as creatives.
If... you fully embrace the notion that your clients hire you for your intention and vision as much as they do for the end product, you will understand that doing things how you do them, without compromise,...
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Remember this, people.
With a couple of important yet not universally applicable exceptions, you cannot control what others do with your work.
The minute it escapes your possession, your work will be interpreted, judged, manipulated and sometimes downright defiled by people you don’t even know. One day I'll tell you the story of how Greg reacted...
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My mind is still reeling after the Hello Etsy conference last weekend, and I'll be writing quite a bit about it in coming days. Etsy has put several of the talks from a variety of conference venues up on Livestream, and there's a wealth of solid, inspiring, thought-provoking information in them. As I write...
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I can't wait to leave for Portland tomorrow for that city's instalment of the Hello Etsy conference. The main conference is in Berlin this weekend, and several American cities are hosting their own creative small-business conference at the same time. I was very excited and flattered to have been invited to pitch a session for the...
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A frequent discussion topic in the creative business world has cycled back around, and I want to chime in with a couple examples from my own experience.
The topic is doing work for free (with the assumption it'll pay eventually) versus only doing work for pay. This round of discussion was sparked by Jenny over...
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I'm really psyched to have had the opportunity to write a bit of a guide to making a Mighty Ugly creature for the CRAFT blog. I mean, it's CRAFT! And I got to sit for an afternoon and make and photograph an ugly creature! Fun times.
So if you've been listening to me blather about...
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