Last week I attended Pioneer Nation, a 3-day conference of solopreneurs and location independent entreproducers, organized by the same folks who put on the World Domination Summit. When I attended WDS last year I realized what Chris Guillebeau had done by bringing this community together: he gave us a digital guild. Before WDS, I was [...]
I've been reading a lot about the World Domination Summit in the past couple weeks. #WDS2013 was, by all accounts, a massive success. There are some incredible posts out there, describing real personal breakthroughs that happened during this 3-day event. Some are delivered with the clarity and creativity of true blogging artists. After reading (and [...]
This weekend, three thousand game changers will convene in my home city. The World Domination Summit was started by Chris Guillebeau to bring together the dreamers, the lifestyle entrepreneurs, and the unconventional thinkers who are finding new ways to live life and make a difference with the new world of digital technology. It's a lot like the [...]
Showcase PDX needed to communicate to their potential sponsors the opportunity to be had by partnering with them. After brainstorming with us during our marketing consultations, we wrote a script that conveyed their message succinctly. We created the video that helped them communicate quickly and effectively with their potential sponsors. And we produced a short [...]
I had the great privilege to meet Gary Vaynerchuk last night at Powell's books. If you don't know who @garyvee is, get a Twitter account, already! Vaynerchuk is one of the most influential social media thought leaders online today. He has used social media as a business strategy, building relationships the way small-town economies had [...]
James Adair of PDX Home Loan.com called me up and said, 'Caelan, I need a brochure by Friday. Can you do it?' 'With pleasure,' I told him. The tri-fold brochure he needed had very specific standards to meet. As a Mortgage Broker, James had compliance standards to adhere to; as a former insurance agent myself, [...]
When Amanda Jones had an idea for a new business, she didn't quite know how to make it work. She sat down with us for a one-on-one marketing consultation to help (Re)Define her idea. At first, all she knew was that she wanted to use her skills as an energy healer to market to professionals [...]
This was one of those unique projects that we LOVE to work on. Danger Man is an anonymous real-life superhero (RLSH) that wanted to increase his brand awareness to crossover into guerilla marketing for local companies. He hired us to create his logo and his website. By interviewing him about the broad capabilities of his unique [...]
One of my earliest video projects was for the Portland graphic design and web development creative agency, Spot Color Studio. They wanted to package their offerings in such a way that they could provide the services most frequently used by startup businesses in one standard package. After writing the script for the video to frame [...]