Name: Doug
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Bio: Always juggling multiple endeavors, Doug is currently focusing the majority of his energy on the Marketing for Impressto.com & TicketDerby.com. He's quickly found himself completely engulfed in an online world. Recently, Doug picked up photography and thinks your best look is when you're not looking! Follow him on twitter - @douglogue
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Gifts for the Young Entrepreneur
December 10th, 2010
Do you know a young entrepreneur that eats, sleeps, and breathes business? We’ve put together a holiday gift guide for these workaholics that’s sure to put a smile on their faces!
Smarter, Faster, Cheaper
For the bookworms like me. Every businessperson is constantly striving to get a leg up on the competition. There’s no better way than continuing to learn, especially from those that have been successful in their endeavors.
Tickets to a Business Conference
Conferences are some of the best places to meet like-minded business mentors. However, some of these conferences can be pretty pricey!
Magazine Subscriptions
Who doesn’t love a good magazine. This also goes hand-in-hand with staying ahead of the competition. These are some of our favorites.
Apple’s iPad
This is such a great product for those business people that always on the go.
Action Method
Entrepreneurs are constantly juggling multiple projects and wearing many different hats within a busy. Help them stay organized with Behance’s fool proof organization system.
A Loan!
Or just a donation. Many people are bootstrapping their businesses and could always use a little more capital! Crowd sourcing financing has been extremely successful for many companies. Find one that you’d like to help on IndieGoGo.com.
A Flip Video
The easiest way to document and share, the trials and tribulations of staring a business.
A Vacation!
Although they probably won’t take one, getting away from work and clearing your head for a few days is a great way to recharge your batteries.
TheMiniPrinter.com
November 19th, 2010Over the past few months, we’ve been hard at work on our latest joint venture with Digital Propaganda… TheMiniPrinter.com! Today all of the hard work paid off, as we finally launched the new site!
We met with Bobby Bharwani, the owner of Digital Propaganda, a few months back to discuss ways to increase DP’s online presence. While the DP e-commerce site was being developed, we decided to start developing niche printing websites to target specific demographics. The first of which would be TheMiniPrinter.com. All of us had noticed an increasing demand in smaller “profile” or mini business cards. This trend was especially big in the Creative Industry, including Designers, Photographers, and Marketing Reps that want to stand out.
After deciding on the first few products we would roll out, we focused our attention on the marketing for the company. We knew that we wanted to have the community involved in developing the brand and create a grass roots following. To get the Creative community involved we created a Design a Mini Tee Contest. The idea for this contest was to allow designers to create and upload their Mini Printer T-Shirt designs. After they submitted their designs, they would have their friends vote for their shirt. This way the designers would help drive traffic to TheMiniPrinter and increase brand awareness. At the end of the contest, the two shirts with the most votes would be printed in a limited edition run and available for sale. The winners would receive a free shirt with their design on it. We love T-shirts and like to think of them as walking billboards!
Next we decided to create a Social Media contest and thought Twitter would be the perfect place to gain immediate recognition. We knew we had to give some incentive to get people to promote the brand. So we came up with the idea of running a Twitter hash tag contest and giving away a FREE AppleTV to one lucky winner. In order to increase or followers, participants had to follow @theminiprinter and send out a Tweet using #theminiprinter. We installed a widget by TweetGrid to populate all tweets containing #theminiprinter on the Twitter Contest page.
As I’m writing this, I was just informed that #theminiprinter is a trending topic in Orlando, Fl! Woohoo.. it’s working! Stay tuned for more updates!
Free Fresh Textures!
November 5th, 2010Download the latest FREE texture pack from Impressto.com!
FREE Denim Texture Pack!
October 27th, 2010Download the latest FREE texture pack from Impressto!
Is Digg, Digging Their Own Grave?
October 26th, 2010For those of you that don’t know, Digg.com is a news site that is populated by it’s users. It works like this, users submit stories to the site and have the rest of the community vote on their story in order to achieve higher rankings within the site. It allows the community to decide what stories are most important and deserve to be on the front page of the site… or does it??
Yesterday one of Digg’s users, LtGenPanda, published an article accusing the site of manipulating the popularity of the front page stories. On October 15th, Digg published a blog regarding their top secret algorithm and the tweaks they were making to it. These new “tweaks” have drastically changed the stories that are appearing on the front page so much so, it peaked LtGenPanda curiosity. He started playing around with their API and found that someone had created dozens of fake accounts, in order to get Digg’s publishing partner’s stories to the front page to boost the Digg referrals that those sites get.
This news comes just one day after Digg announces they will be cutting their workforce by 37% and Chas Edwards, Digg’s Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer, announced his resignation. This is third time the company has downsized over the past two years. The company also lost their CEO, Jay Adelson, this past April. On top of all that, the company has been struggling with a major decline in traffic due to the disappointing site overhaul.
I fear, if Digg has manipulated their algorithm to help it’s publishing partners, then this is the last straw for the company. The basis for this site is the democracy of news, let the readers decide what is most important to them. Digg users will feel betrayed, if LtGenPanda’s findings are accurate, and ultimately stop using the site.
Do you think this is the end of Digg?
