Archive for October, 2007

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Forums and E-Mail lists as a marketing tool

In case you haven’t noticed, I do a LOT of online networking. I love it - I’m a bit of a homebody anyway, and online networking allows me to keep in touch with folks, talk about stuff I’m interested in anyway, and feel just a little less alone when I’m at home working in my [...]

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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Triple Bottom Line: Marketing and personal responsibility

There’s a great post on Seth Godin’s Blog about marketing and personal responsibility. Yes, it’s old (June 14th, to be exact), but it’s a good one, and one that hit a personal note with me.
When I made the decision to become a designer back in 1996(ish), one of the things that became very important [...]

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Monday, October 15th, 2007

"Disarming" difficult client requests

I just got turned on to this great entry from Ideas on Ideas about dealing with, ahem, challenging client requests.
Among the requests:

Can we make the text bigger?

I’ll know what I like when I see it.

My neighbors/wife/cat don’t like it.

Someone in accounting mocked-up a really neat idea for this.

If you’re a designer, you’ve probably heard [...]

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