Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day tomorrow! Why does my birthday have to be adjacent to a day like that? Kind of sad. I want them to be the same day! Do not forget that Border7 is celebrating this year of business and it’s amazing clients! Saturday, September 26th, at the Rancho Santa Susana Park [...]

Design Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices: A good look at what to do and what not to do. This post also brings about some nice design points and also points of organization and structure. Swiss table slices into portable workstations: It’s the simple but interesting things in life that still amaze me. [...]

Design If Famous Graphic Artists Were Web Designers…: Some interesting work here for both art and web design. I’d really suggest giving this a look. It may inspire you a bit, too. 8:00 A Typography Project: This is clever. It would really get those designer/imaginative juices flowing right when you start your day. Development Learn [...]

I finally got around to reading some old RSS subscriptions and I came across the following article: Real Life Examples of Business Owners Using Social Media from Small Business Trends and I was intrigued. I really wish I could have gone to the event. It would have been nice to have learn and listen to [...]

Hype is a mixture of direct marketing, advertising, buzz, and just word of mouth. Hype is a fun marketing technique that, when used on something that is worth the hype, is amazing. The Good In this day and age it seems that hype is really a part of our culture. Everything is hyped to be [...]

Duct Tape Marketing just posted about the book “How to Demonstrate Word of Mouth” and Dave Balter of BuzzAgent. We just got a copy of the PDF and are going to be buying a copy from Amazon. It was really good timing because yesterday during a staff meeting we were discussing some Marketing techniques that [...]

I read Copyblogger almost religiously and I recently stumbled on his “10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers” post. I agree with everything has there but there are 3 that really hit a base with me 1. Make it Easy and Obvious The easiest way to keep people from subscribing is to make it [...]