October 18, 2007
At a little more than two months old, I Love Typography, has developed a cult following of over 5,000 subscribers, and confirmed the fact that quality content and design yield monstrous results. Created and written by John Boardley, a designer/typoholic based in Japan, I Love Typography is a surprisingly phenomenal site suited for anyone, whether you’ve only dipped your toe in design, or enjoy analyzing the typography on your potato chip bag. I.L.T. is one of our favourite sites and we love it!
Click here to visit this site.
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October 16, 2007
This is a reminder that our contest for 5,000 business cards care of Orange32 closes this Friday, October 19th, 2007. We’d love to get some more participants, so please do read the details and sneak a post in about business cards before then.
Here are the official entries to date
What Would You Do With 5,000 Business Cards? - Business Opportunities and Ideas
Business Cards - Some thoughts from someone who doesn’t have them - Matt Didcoe
3 Innovative Business Card Marketing Strategies - After the Launch
What’s in a Business Card? - Cory Dorning
How to Hand a Business Card - P16:3 Interactive
7 Incredibly Unique Business Cards - Create Business Growth Offers
Business Cards (What mine would say if it could talk !) - Christopher “The Creative Sheep”
It’s all in the card - Technologist for Hire
Using viral techniques to promote your business cards printing service - Small Business Entrepreneur Blog
Business cards with Facebook links - Lindsey Pollak
What I could do with 5000 business cards - thepinkc
The 5000 Business Cards Contest by Young Go Getter and Orange32 - Nicole Andujar Graphic Design
How to Use Your Old Business Cards - P16:3 Interactive
Need Business Cards? Want Business Cards? How about 5000 of them? - Dorm Room Biz
Amazing 5,000 Business Cards Giveaway by YGG & Orange32 - Blog Paradise
If you wrote an entry but don’t see it in the list, either Technorati didn’t pick it up, our trackback didn’t grab it, or you didn’t mention it to us. Please send us a link to your entry ASAP if you don’t see it above: hello (at) younggogetter (dot) com.
We really would love to see some more entries from our regular and random readers. So come on young go getters! 4 days left. Plenty of time to write an insanely creative post about business cards and walk away with 5,000 pieces of paper that prove you’re not unemployed. :)
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October 15, 2007
Today is Blog Action Day. An important opportunity for bloggers of all sizes to influence the thoughts and actions of the mass and media. Collis, Cyan, and their team have done a phenomenal job organizing this event and having it recognized worldwide.
We were one of the first sites to sign up for the event and are anxiously awaiting the final tally later this week as the amount of participants, funds raised, and response from all the big news networks, is released
I thought it might be interesting to pick out a handful of existing businesses/ideas that you may or may not have heard of and highlight their environmental benefit. These ideas are creating markets of their own and opportunities for young go getters like ourselves to grab a share while they’re still in their early stages.
This environmentally conscious alternative has become quite the trend. Shipping containers that would normally be used to transport goods from overseas, are stripped down, cleared out, and stacked much like Legos to create a unique grid of housing or retail stores. These containers were and are used for many years in the Eastern world and by the military, but are only now becoming a cost-effective mobile condo.
A Dutch company called Springtime, has created the green version of Zipcar. Many cities pose quite a risk when locking your bike up outside. By creating vending machines for bikes, you’re enabled to rent one for a short or lengthy commute and return it to another machine near your destination. With zero emissions and the cost of pennies compared to a car, this initiative is much needed in many parts of the world.
TerraCycle is a truly innovative company. Their products, fertilizers, are packaged in cleansed pop bottles that each of us use every day. By providing a Pepsi bottle or whatnot, you receive $0.06 along with an ever important contribution to the already 1,098,440 bottles collected to date. This model could be applied to hundreds and thousands of different liquid based products that we use and eliminate the entire process of having to crush, melt, and re-form new bottles.
We wrote about the trend of designer shopping bags back in July. The idea is that retailers offer a fashionable or classy version of a bag that replaces the disposable plastic ones we would normally receive at the checkout. These stylish woven ones can be used hundreds of times and serve as an accessory, especially for the female crowd. Would still be nice to see dozens of lines and variations of these bags be offered by the major chains across the world. Until then, the hilarious UK version you see above will be effective at grabbing attention.
The idea of being a hamster on a wheel doesn’t sound too bad when applied to our normal actions throughout the day across all our environments. Energy generating speedbumps are already in the works, as are treadmills that convert the rotation of the belt into electricity. While the small amount of power generated from these devices may seem minimalistic at this time, once a cost-effective way is developed to enable us to convert motion to energy, this could change the hydro industry altogether.
Happy Blog Action Day everyone. Please contribute to this initiative by writing on your blog or donating to a green charity of your choice. Cheers!
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October 14, 2007
Arnold exposes the focus group.
Focus groups. I’ve been a consumer in a couple and host of a few. All of which led to general insight and un-creative inspiration. Take a look at the results from a group of individuals that aren’t in the Apple or pop culture loop.
How Not To Inspire Confidence In Your Customers
The latest form of MLM, BlogRush, seems to have already taken over the sidebars of quite a few bloggers (please don’t fall for it). You gotta love how they carry their used-car salesmen persona over to their marketing, like this cheesy e-mail.
The Back Up Gun Rack
For only $39.95, you can kill anyone that bothers you during your sleep. If you’ve had a long day, and your husband tries to sneak out for a snack, shoot him. We’ll even throw in a phone number for life insurance, cause your kids sure-as-hell won’t be smart enough to wander around and lift your comforter up.
Buying and Selling Blogs: How Do You Value Blogs?
They can be a great investment if you’re able to spot a deal. But there are plenty of things to consider before you buy or sell a blog. Chris covers the key points.
Mel Blanc on David Letterman
Mel Blanc, the voice of many Looney Tunes characters, appeared on Letterman way back when. Along with his incredible voices, he brings up some points about production 20 some years ago, that applies to the lackluster quality of today’s cartoons.
Burp.
Manners versus Beers. The facts of life.
A Few Good Creative Men
This is an unbelievably well re-created spin on A Few Good Men. Any creatives and adfolk out there will get a kick out of this. “You can’t handle a bigger logo!”
Polaroid Photography of Grant Hamilton
A great source of colour inspiration through a series of Polaroid photos. Gorgeous simplicity that can inspire any and every facet of design.
How to Unschedule your work and enjoy guilt-free play
LifeClever shares a unique approach to organizing your life. “Instead of scheduling work you have to do, you fill in everything you want to do.”
The Powerbook! The Powerbook! The Powerbook’s on Fire!
These dreaded fires seem to be common nowadays with previous generations of Apple notebooks. This is an interesting story of how one ignited and Apple’s response (much nicer than how they’ve responded to iPhone hack freezes).
Reminder: Tomorrow, October 15th, is Blog Action Day. If you haven’t already, please do sign up and write a post to help make the environment a priority.
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October 11, 2007
There are plenty of guides, books, articles, and directions as to formulas for effective advertising. Donald Gunn narrowed it down to 12 back in 1978, Suzanne Pope, 11 or so over at Ihaveanidea. I want take 4 directions that may or may not be labeled exactly as to the two lists I mentioned, and give examples of how you can use them, whether that be in networking, marketing, or face-to-face with your customers.
Stories
It’s not a matter of writing stories, but creating them. FedEx is known for their fly through a blizzard to ensure their package arrived on time story; a timeless classic in every b-school. A more recent one got to me and is an even better example from a customer’s perspective:
Keep reading…
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October 5, 2007
While they say “no risk, no reward”, I’d like to change that a bit for the purpose of this article. How bout, “some risk, no immediate reward”?
In almost every industry, service providers work on a per project, per milestone, or per hour basis. The tasks are determined before the assignment begins, by yourself and your client. An amount and method of payment is agreed upon. And you begin your process, whether that be creative, financial, manufacturing, etc…
That model appears to be going through a process of evolution in the creative world and migrating across numerous markets. The new approach takes from the entrepreneurial notion of banking on equity. If you’re a sole proprietor, the entire equity of your business is in your hands. Your actions determine your earnings (or losses) and your lifestyle is molded by the outcome of those actions (no sales, no rent).
Keep reading…
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October 4, 2007
NOTE: This post came from a conversation Eric and I were having at 3:00 am EST.
Followers are just as important, if not more important than the big name bloggers. Without them, those powerhouses wouldn’t exist. They are a metric of pop culture in our community. We need them. But I don’t think any of us like to be labeled as a follower.
In every single industry, in management positions, there’s been individuals making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. That’s nothing new. When you can count the amount of bloggers making such an amount on your fingers and toes, it doesn’t look like the most promising industry to be in.
Keep reading…
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October 1, 2007
They make it easy to introduce yourself to strangers, help them remember your name, make you look bigger than you actually are, and certify the fact that you own your own business. These are business cards of course, an essential part of every entrepreneur’s toolkit.
From the dozens, hundreds, or thousands of cards that have passed through your hands over the years, chances are you can only recall several at most. If they weren’t your standard one-sided logo/text templates from Kinko’s, they may resemble the awful era of bevel and gradient madness from back in 2000.
It could be worse, I guess. You could have no business cards at all. Scribbling on napkins at events gets tired after a while.
The part where I get to the point
Whether your cards are an eyesore, or are running low, or you don’t have any, this is where YGG and Orange32 step in, with our first official contest.
We’ve partnered with Orange32, the nicest creative and print shop we’ve ever met, to give away a prize pack worth over $400. This package includes:
Keep reading…
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September 30, 2007
Kanye West has a blog, and its good
If you ever wanted to get in touch with Kanye West, this is the easiest way. Kanye’s blog is an interesting look at his interests, and hasn’t taken off yet, so your feedback might catch his attention.
Pixelmator - Image editing for the rest of us
This gorgeous Photoshop knock-off is now officially available for all the Macheads. If any of you pick a copy up, please do share your first impressions with YGG.
Seinfeld on Marketing ebook
Jerry Seinfeld, the new marketing case study. This is a really interesting metaphorical e-book tying some of the more famous skits on Seinfeld into insightful marketing points.
TiltViewer
This Flash Flickr viewer had to have been inspired by Dirt on the Xbox 360. Pretty cool interactive example of the Flickr API in use.
10 Tips for Writing Better Posts
Tips and lists. The magic combination for bloggers. If you’re blogging habit is in the gutter, this list might help.
Is Banksy Right?
Have all the greatest creatives gone commercial?
Trumpet Harmonica Has Got Monster Bells
For anyone planning to get married anytime soon, you have to get your Chapel to play “Here comes the bride” on this.
The Top 5 Uncommon Timesavers for Bloggers/Writers (Plus: Video of Me Kissing a Hairy “Coo”)
Some more great blogging tips, care of Mr. Four Hour Work Week himself.
Challenging Authority
This is a uniquely creative outdoor campaign for the new 2008 Challenger. I wish I thought of this.
How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve
Quick and few seems to be the magic formula for designing effectively for the web.
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September 26, 2007
As you all know, Business 2.0 was axed by Time, Inc. a month or so ago, right when my subscription expired. To my surprise, another issue arrived in my mailbox today, labeled “Collector’s Item: Our Final Issue”.
I picked up my first issue of B2.0 back in September 2002, and until subscribing last year, had rushed to the newsstand each and every month for a copy. The art direction started to go down the drain back in ‘05, but it was still one of the best reads for young go getters. So I’d recommend picking up this “final” issue. (Rambo was resurrected, so it wouldn’t be mad to imagine this mag coming back down the road as a 3.0)
Next, we’ve got Entrepreneur magazine. This month’s issue is the only one I buy throughout the year (sorry, not interested in 50,000 different franchises every issue). This is their annual Young Millionaires issue. The Jakes from Threadless finally made the list, which you can read for free online. I couldn’t read any deeper than the names; don’t want to ruin re-reading the print issue with envy 10,000 times.
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PPC Management
Hell Yeah Dude!
Reverse Funnel System for Beach Bums
