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Required Listening: Doing Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way

Frank Chimero is a designer and writer from Portland, Oregon and he recently gave a talk at the Do Lectures in Wales. His talk was titled “Do Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way” and is a good talk to listen/watch for a bit of inspiration and motivation to think about…

Google+ Community Guidelines

While it’s still early days in how everyone is deciding to use Google+ personally and professionally – Google has just published a set of Community Guidelines that can help give you an idea of how or why you might want to use Google+ for your business or startup. Right now…

The Northerly Edition

Coudal Partners is a design and advertising studio located in Chicago. One of the products they sell is the popular Field Notes Brand memo and notebooks. So if you’re trying to market a new version of a notebook you sell, what sort of video would you create to convey the…

How Orabrush Got Into Walmart

Interesting story that should inspire you to think outside the box of your normal marketing tactics as to how your product or service could get out there to more customers. Orabrush used a YouTube video and some innovative marketing to get their tongue cleaner that they were making in their…

One More on Squarespace

Over on my podcast network, SSKTN, we have a new sponsor called Squarespace. I mention this here only because a common keyword search that brings people to this website is ‘squarespace vs virb’ where they land on this post comparing two popular website builder companies. As part of the sponsorship…