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Have your mug featured on YGG
As I said yesterday, we want to try some new things to increase the interaction and participation here at YGG. One of the ideas I came up with last week was to let the face(s) of our community be the face of our community, literally.
See that mysterious fella’ in the top right corner holding a YGG sign? Yes, that is in fact me, but I’m getting a little sick of myself.
So here’s my idea: shoot a creative picture of yourself holding a YGG sign (see below) and we’ll feature it as our logo. We’ll rotate through all of the submissions so a different young go getter appears each time you view a page.
Maybe we’ll even pick the most creative picture each month and send you a prize.
Being that we tend to be featured in quite a few galleries and articles, depending on who’s pic shows up when the screenshot is taken, you could permanently have your glorious face in some of the popular galleries. That’s D-list stardom right there, baby.
But that’s not all. We’re not big fans of blogrolls (but please don’t stop adding YGG to yours :). We get quite a few requests every now and then to swap links. They’re too boring. So here’s what we’ll throw in to motivate you even more. Be sure to mention your website’s URL when you submit your picture, and we’ll make your pic link directly to your site. How bout that!
Some nice free traffic, and the possibility of hooking up with a supermodel (they’re our biggest market when off the runway).
Here’s what you have to do:
- Print it out at full size.
- Take a picture of yourself holding the sign.
- Try and be creative, funny, interesting, happy. Take it in a nice setting (colours, lighting, background) and make sure the logo can be seen clearly.
- You don’t have to crop the picture to size, but do remember the final size of the logo box is 385px by 219px. So you’ll want to frame the shot almost like it’s a widescreen setting. Aspect ratio is the same as a business card.
- Once you have a picture you’re happy with, send a hi-res copy (jpg, tiff, psd, pdf, etc…) along with a brief description, your location (city, state, country) and the website you’d like your logo to link to: hello (at) younggogetter (dot) com.
Once we receive your picture, we’ll crop it to size, do any colour adjustment needed, and add it to the rotation.
So get at it young go getters! If you have any questions, post them in the comments.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Great campaign idea! We at boo-box will join!
August 8th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Excellent idea, I printed mine out, and will try and get a pic out to you guys later on tonight :)
August 8th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Awesome! Thanks Dave and Tanaka. Can’t wait to see them.
August 8th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I’m on it – expect something I-N-S-A-N-E in the next little while.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Sounds like fun. I’ll do that in the coming days.
August 9th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Tanaka’s is up. Love it! Keep ‘em coming folks.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Already sent in mine!
August 9th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I’m on location today. Once I get back to my office tonight I’ll add your pic, Kristof and anyone else that sent one it today, to the rotation.
August 11th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Just sent mine :)
August 31st, 2007 at 2:49 am
So does this thing have to be photographed? I feel like illustrating something!
August 31st, 2007 at 2:51 am
Completely open game Pasquale. We’d love to have an illustrated version of yourself or one of your characters holding our sign. :)
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
Sweet! I’ll have to knock something up on the train tommorow!
September 4th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Awesome pics so far – keep ‘em coming
September 6th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
what a fun community involvement idea! I don’t know how I will get much accomplished with all of the refreshing I will be doing to see the different photos ;-)
September 6th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
You’d be refreshing even more if you submitted a picture, Elysa. :)
September 18th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Super ideal and smart for this digital age. I’m gunna get on this!! Go Getta!
September 29th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I am taking a photo today. Travis will like it! :)
October 7th, 2007 at 1:55 am
I’ll take mine soon :D
Is that Jeniffer Anniston in that photo?
October 7th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Why yes it is Jimbo. :)
Can’t wait to add your photo.
April 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Wonderful web site, was very useful. Lovely touch having this guestbook. Thanks