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Gone Fishing…

Saturday, 11 December, 2010

…And by Fishing, I mean working my freakin’ rear end off helping clients do really cool stuff. And loving every minute of it.
This means I am no longer taking on any new clients or projects. Sorry!
If you’re in a bind, however, contact me and I’ll try to refer you to someone who can help.
Lastly, this means [...]

Digital Story Teller

Sunday, 15 August, 2010

Before attending the NewSpace2010 conference I had new business cards made up, which I love. The question and response I always get when I hand one out to people is my title: “Digital Story Teller.” In business (nay, in LIFE) we think in terms of stories. The ability to sell someone on an idea, a [...]

Wild Image Photography

Saturday, 3 July, 2010

This was a very basic photography site built on Wordpress for the very talented Rick Isaacs. Despite the fairly complex organization of photos, this site took only a few hours to build. Actually, it only took a few hours to create multiple sites. This ultimately was the one Mr. Isaacs voted on. Check out the [...]

Winter Namm 2010 Booth Design

Saturday, 3 July, 2010

For the Winter NAMM 2010 Show, the marketing/sales team was charged with designing the layout of a 20′ x 10′ booth to provide demonstration stations featuring at least four different products. I won’t say what the budget was, but it was very little.
The design and dimensions were placed into Google Sketchup. Instead of using [...]

Avoid the Burn

Saturday, 3 July, 2010

When we were putting together mock ups for the launch of the Batt-O-Meter, the man upstairs thought our first attempts were boring. Fortunately I had this idea in my back pocket ever since the summer NAMM 2009 show in Nashville.
At that conference, I had the pleasure of meeting with Jason Perl and Paul Riario from Guitar [...]

Big Bang Theory Tshirts

Thursday, 1 July, 2010

This is an affiliate site set up using WordPress, called The Big Bang Theory Tshirts.
It’s pretty basic, with a focus on capturing visitor metrics and monitoring traffic to make decisions later about what design and sales funnel changes to make.

Music for Profit Blog

Thursday, 1 July, 2010

This is a blog I currently run called Music for Profit. The purpose of the blog is to share some of my experience as a professional musician over the years.
Design-wise, this was a template theme that I did a few tweaks for customization. I have an array of plugins I use on most of my [...]

StringPort Product Site

Thursday, 1 July, 2010

This was my last project with Keith McMillen Instruments. The goal was to rapidly build a complete e-commerce microsite for the launch of the StringPort product. We used Wordpress and heavily customized the Techozoic theme. We also integrated it with WP Wishlist Member and 1ShoppingCart. We also included video content and screenshots for the StringPort [...]

You Are Here

Tuesday, 29 June, 2010

Let me explain this dramatic header image : a mountain range, and three lines pointing to three phrases.
It has to do with one of the many skills I applied from Scouting to Business. First, allow  me to provide the legend to this cryptic introduction:

You are here. Literally, reality. If you had a working GPS, this is [...]

Time to Review Eternity

Tuesday, 22 June, 2010

In a previous post I talked about the late great Randy Pausch and his lecture on time management. (You can check it out here). One of the points he makes is that it’s important to track your time.
Ever since Jason aka Jay talked about this in the Internet Business Mastery Academy, I’ve been struggling with [...]