Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Brilliant + free, Content Matters, DIY, The Work, Video
Awesome news! My post about the Vimeo Festival and Awards is up on the awesome Future of Film blog over at Tribeca Film. In it, you’ll find lots of great tips for inventive digital outreach, including crafting great incentives for participation, changing the container of how your film is distributed, and more. Check it out!
Categories: DIY, Resume 2.0, Social Media @ Work, The Work
This July 9th at Wix Lounge I’ll be doing a class called Resume 2.0 focused on helping you use digital marketing tactics to burnish your “personal brand.” It’s only $12, but you can enter to win a FREE spot here. This article is one of a four-part series on the foundational elements of Resume 2.0. [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Brilliant + free, DIY, Resume 2.0, Small List, Social Media, The Work
I hate resumes, don’t you? If you’re the one sending them out, you just know that you’re going to spend hours hand-crafting something that no one’s going to do anything more than scan. And if you’re the one receiving, you know it’s hard to get a “read” on how the individual will complement your organizations. [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, DIY, Micro Marketing, Nonprofit/Cultural, Quotable, Resources, Small Business, Small is Brilliant, Social Media, The Work
I’m a huge Meetup fan — I’m a member of a ton, and attend several religiously. So enamored of the concept am I that I signed up for additional notifications from Meetup, of newly forming Meetups and ones that I “might be interested in.” So I’m getting a lot of emails I’m getting from Meetup [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Content Matters, DIY, Nonprofit/Cultural, Resources, Roundup, Small Business, Social Media, The Work
A personal story: When I was fifteen or sixteen, I wanted to play guitar, so I signed up for lessons at a local music shop. What I had visions of was learning to play “Boys Don’t Cry,” maybe forming a band or at least being the hit of all local parties and bonfires. What I [...]
Categories: Brilliant + free, Building Better Email Outreach, Content Matters, DIY, Micro Marketing, Resources, The Work
There’s a great story about the folks that started Groupon in The Lean Startup. Incredibly, these guys put probably the world’s scrappiest product on the market, by building a site on WordPress, managing contacts with Filemaker and sending out the first Groupons in PDF format. I loved that last part when I read it…PDFs! Their [...]
Categories: Brilliant + free, DIY, How-to, Resources, Small List: Tools, The Work
Do you ever do this — set a timer and race to get something done? I ask because I have been reading about something called “The Pomodoro Technique,” which sounds a little like something you should do to pasta but is actually for time management. Here’s the gist, from the Pomodoro website:
Categories: Artists & Writers, Blogging, Building Better Email Outreach, DIY, How-to, Small Business, Small Events, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, The Work
Over the past couple of years, having the blog here at Jellybean Boom has given me a great excuse to talk to all sorts of people about their marketing challenges. As I’ve written before, one of the most valuable takeaways I’ve gotten from talking to people who really excel at grass-roots audience building is the [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Content Matters, DIY, How-to, it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine, Micro Marketing, Quotable, Resources, Small is Brilliant
Yesterday I went from a person who only had a vague notion of Seth Godin as a marketing-guru-slash-author to one of those people who quotes Seth Godin like he’s the number one God of all things futuristic and innovative. Sorry if I’m late to the party, friends. I attended an all-day conference with the man [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Content Matters, DIY, How-to, Resources, The Work
“Why would I want to work from someone else’s office when I get so much done at home?” was one of my friend’s reactions when I tried to explain to her what I was doing booking random desks around the city via LooseCubes for a spell a couple of weeks ago. The “why” was not [...]
