Entreprenews of the Week

Rally Legend And Young Son Killed
Another superstar lost. Such a shame.

Some pictures from the Chicago Threadless Store opening…
One of the largest web-based businesses have given the brick-and-mortar approach a try. Their retail store and angle is as unique as their online platform.

NxE’s Fifty Most Influential Bloggers
Yeah, you’ve probably already seen this. But for the handful that haven’t, Collis and his team deserve the plug for putting together one of the best looking lists in a long time.

Google Reader Theme 1.2
Google, hire these people! If only any of your other apps looked half as good as this.

10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)
If you’ve gone to b-school or plan to at any point, you’ve probably seen a few of these dated books. The recommended reads will save you the trouble of trying to digest Jack Welch’s old-school approaches.

Can you see the irony here?
It feels good to make fun of advertisers every now and then. Just point and laugh.

Hidden Beer Fridge Perfect For Work
The last agency I worked for had a retro fridge converted into a beer keg in the conference room. This fridge would have saved me the trip.

Strengthening Your Appeal towards VC’s and Angel Investors
Whether you need it now or later, capital can be pretty tough to acquire nowadays. This is a good starter guide for startups.

Kevin Carroll quote
The author of “Rules of the Red Rubber Ball”, an excellent quick read if I may say so, shares an insightful quote on Brand Autopsy.

Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies
The details and precision of these are mind-blowing. I can’t imagine having the patience to craft one of these masterpieces. Unbelievable.

LonelyBloggers.com - Are you a lonely blogger?
We’ve got dating sites for seniors, prison inmates, and nerds…….heck, why not bloggers?

on cartooning
Hugh shares 45 lessons learned since he first created his cartoon on the back of business cards, celebrating his 10th anniversary.

Several different ways to optimize and organize your life with Jott

Jott


There are plenty of tools available nowadays to plan your day, set reminders, and assign tasks. You have applications on your mobile phone, you have Basecamp, you have Outlook, you have iCal, and so on.

But what do you do when you’re driving down the highway, remember an extremely important task that needs to be done tomorrow, and ensure you don’t forget it? Jott it. (Disclaimer: YGG does not recommend you talk or use your cellphone while driving on the highway. :)

That’s Jott it, without the down. A verb that seems to be almost as catchy as “Google it�.

This online service was first announced back in December or so on TechCrunch. The idea is that you have a local or toll-free number you call from the phone associated with your Jott account, say who you’d like to send a Jott to (contacts), say your message, and it’s then transcribed and e-mailed to the contact you chose.

Jott is entirely free, but is still in “Public Beta” mode. They are expected to roll out of beta in the near future and offer a Business plan on top of the freebie, most likely with a few new features, no Jott advertising in the e-mail notifications, and an unlimited amount of messages.

Where and when could this be handy? On plenty of occasions, many of which I’ll try and cover today.

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Squeezing fitness into your busy schedule

Staying healthy

Let me first start by saying the title is not squeezing “exercise” into your busy schedule. Exercise is over stated, overall fitness is not. Being fit and healthy is more about your diet than it is about your workout routine. Getting in shape and losing a little weight (if that’s what you’re trying to do) is actually very, very easy.

You’re already going to eat, so if you can teach yourself to eat right that’s half the battle. Here are some basic eating tips that if stuck to will clean out your body in no time

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YGG’s gone WAP

Just a late Tuesday treat for all you YGG’s. The blog is now compatible with WAP enabled smartphones, BlackBerry’s and PDA’s. Sure all you iPhone users don’t care, but neither do we. We’ve even preserved your ability to comment on blog posts. Don’t say we never gave you anything!

Blog of the Future - Collis, Neil, Seth, Myself

2000?

I shared my disappointment with Scoble’s prediction as to the future direction of blogs, a week ago. He didn’t take too nicely to my critique of his opinion, but I said at that time that I would send out a dozen or so e-mails asking the opinion of some other bloggers I thought would better fit the role of a creative psychic.

As expected and completely understood, only a few responded. Thankfully, one response from our friend, Collis Ta’eed at FreelanceSwitch, was quite thoughtful and I’ll share a few excerpts of it, along with Neil Patel’s from Pronet Advertising, an amusing response from Seth, and my own.

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Interview with Ann Handley — MarketingProfs

Ann Handley

Last November I received an e-mail from a nice lady named Ann, asking that I add her site to an aggregator I had created. I gladly obliged after the exchange of a few e-mails, not realizing the networking and journalistic aficionado I was conversing with. After being interviewed by her, I promised to return the favour, possibly on another site I helped run (YGG) and would get right back to her.

Much like a healthy baby, this interview finally came to life, nine months later. (Entirely my fault.)

So, without further ado, a long overdue interview with a brilliant individual from MarketingProfs, Ann Handley.

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Entreprenews of the Week

Be a millionaire (at least online)
A cool interactive adver-film that allows you to simulate the lifestyle of a millionaire. All of which is tied into the Dutch Loto. Brilliant!

Core 77′s Hack-2-School Guide
Aimed at students pursuing a career in design, this guide is useful for anyone looking for some creative tips, an inside look at design school, or people with an abundant supply of mock neck shirts and black frame glasses.

Interview with Alex Bogusky
One of the most creative folks in the ad-game, Alex is dug into by ihaveanidea to reveal a humane mastermind who makes the complex creation of advertising look like a walk in the park.

WordPress as a CMS - Content Management System
Wordpress isn’t just a blogging platform. You can use it to develop your business or personal website as well. This post does a good job at walking you through the process.

Verbarius
A brilliant clock that tells you the time humanely as opposed to numerically. If it gets under $80 I might consider it.

CRANKbait
The most creative fishing lures you’ll never actually use. You’d have to hope the fish aren’t critics and don’t mind chomping on a mini Van Gogh.

Take Responsibility
Save this insightful napkin forever. Print it, frame it, resist the urge to dab your mouth with it.

Twitter Blocks
A creative, albeit somewhat useless, Twitter mashup to show the path of communication of Tweets.

Internet People - The Meth Minute 39
For the one or two people that haven’t seen this…….prepare yourself for the realization that you spend way too much time online and know more about D-list pop culture than World history.

Building A More Communal Blog
A handy guide of 29 points to help you engage and expand the community behind your blog.

Busted: Cheerleader Streaker Viral Video by Twentieth Century Fox


So who isn’t using YouTube to launch viral marketing campaigns these days? One of the most popular videos today and over 120,000 views… It took about 2 seconds into this clip to smell the funk of a marketing department. I wasn’t quite sure why a College or University would be using a female streaker as a marketing tool…

Who Else Was at This Game?!!!!!!

Well, none of us were… only the marketing department for a movie to be released next month by Twentieth Century Fox was there.

What Gave It All Away

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Talk about a surprise. Plenty of new iPods.

Apple

Go to Apple first, watch the keynote, look at all the features, get a grip on it, then tell us what you think. I’m still kinda lost.

New YGG family member and half-off ad sale

You pick the half

When you don’t have enough time to focus on selling ads, what do you do? Shut down your site and cry. Or, hire an Advertising Sales Director. We’re more than pleased to welcome Courtney to the team. She happens to be the fiance of one of our long-time members, Justin Nowak, and a very interesting gal. You can read a bit more about her on our About page and see her little headshot.

We’re still working on setting her up with all the e-mail, management, and sales tools she needs. It’ll be another week or so before you see some more action from her.

This happy announcement made us feel all generous, and giving, and stuff. So we figured we might as well use some of Eric’s car sales tactics, and WE’RE GIVING HALF OFF ALL ADS UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER. Yes, that’s right folks, one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial blogs with one of the nicest communities behind it, has lost their minds. We even have one of those inflatable gorillas on each of our roofs. Such a shame you can’t see them.

Those lovely image ads you see in the sidebar are now only $90/month until September 30th. We figured the Text Link Ads should go on sale as well, so we’re selling our own SEO links for only $25/month until September 30th.

If you’re interested in advertising on YGG and want to snap up one of the spots, send an e-mail to hello (at) younggogetter (dot) com, or use our contact form.

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