Monthly Archives: September, 2009
BRANDING MINI-CONSULT WINNERS
The winners of the branding mini-consults are: Andrea Roberts, Angela Duncan, and Irmalou Photography. I used random number generator to choose, as I couldn’t pick between your witty, honest, and insightful comments. Congrats! Thanks to everyone who took the time to enter the contest. For the (contest) losers, a treat! Up to 10 of you [...]
YOU + BRANDING CONSULT = ENTER THE CONTEST!
You could win a mini-branding consult with me, all easy-peasy like! The details… You: – are having some sort of branding trouble – want to throw a big ol’ tantrum & are frustrated – don’t know where to turn for help I: – will hit you up with a branding survey via e-mail – will [...]
APPRECIATE WHERE YOU ARE. RIGHT NOW.
You’ve come a long way as a business owner. I know this, because if you’ve been an entrepreneur for more than three weeks, you’ve had to grow, adapt, think fast, swerve the dodge ball, fail, and recover. Sometimes simultaneously. So please, take this moment and appreciate where you are. Right now. My life right now [...]
PHOTOJOJO BOOK REVIEW.
Okay, so…I’m not really into being a salesman. And yet, I’m telling you to GO BUY THIS BOOK. Wait wait, back up…if you haven’t already, subscribe to Photojojo. Get hooked on their killer content, rad ideas, and ways to hack plunger hardware into a tilt-shift lens. (That’s a screen capture below, so don’t go clicking [...]
PANTIES CAN TEACH YOU LOTS OF THINGS
No, really. This post is about panties. So if you just can’t take that level of intimate product connected to a talk about effective branding and sales, abandon the post now! Unrelated but funny commercial about underwear: Ok. You stayed. ::whew:: I randomly get catalogs and mail from those who lived in my home prior [...]
ON SELF RESPECT
I received this e-mail over the weekend, and in the interest of preventing ANY of you from EVER doing ANYTHING like this, I’l share: I am a partner with _________. You may have heard of us. We typically shoot twice a year on location for several well-known national children’s stores We are looking for an [...]
TECHNORATI SUBMISSION
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PRICING IS PART OF YOUR BRAND.
So, the winner of the Easy as Pie Pricing Guide — we’ll get to that. First, a tale of two ketchups. (This is how the story was told to me, so ketchup it is.) You are at the grocery store, and there are three ketchup choices that catch your eye. One is $3, one is [...]
WIN EASY AS PIE PRICING GUIDE!
Pricing yourself as an artist is incredibly difficult. Like, rip off your eyelids and punch you in the gut difficult. I get that. And I thought I was A-okay in the pricing game — until Alicia Caine asked me to help her with the Easy As Pie project. While I was editing, reordering, and sprinkling [...]
