How to Get People Talking About Your Product

Eric Sink on “How to get people talking about your product.”

Excerpts:

“Word-of-mouth is not a strategy.  It is the result of a strategy.”

“The better approach is far less intuitive, but far more effective:

1. Find a Very Small Group of People that share common interests
2. Build a product that 100% of them will love”

GTD for GMail

David Seah posted about this new GTDGmail plugin for Firefox. I definately plan on playing around with this to see if this will help.

Mrs. Eaves’ Sweet Ligatures

I’m really digging on Mrs. Eaves and the “Just Lig” styles. Those Ligatures rock!

Thinking With Type: Companion Site

Thinking with Type: A companion site to the book. Nicely done.

50 Tools Which Can Help You in Writing

Awesome bunch of tutorials titled “Fifty(50!) Tools Which Can Help You in Writing.” Each one is worth a read.

Creative Latitude

Creative Latitude is a worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice.

Check out their Resource section where they have many useful documents and tools for designers.

They also have a nice selection of Profiles.

Creative Postcard Club

A group of designers from around the world compete with monthly challanges at the Creative Postcard Club. I just may join.

What it takes to be an Entrepreneur

Yopos.com lists 10 things it takes to be an Entrepreneur. I can definately say that Nick’s analysis is on point. Passion is extremely important. I tried to work with many, but the only ones that worked out are when all involved are passionate about making it work.

Graphic Design Toolbox

I just found out about Squidoo today and already I’m posting my third Graphic Design Squidoo lens. This one is Graphic Designer Toolbox by J Jeffryes. It’s now time for me to step away from Squidoo.

If You Build It, They STILL Won’t Come

It takes more than a logo and a url to get your ecommerce site going. Freshly Squeezed Droplets explain that in order to succeed you have to make your “web site part of a much larger marketing strategy, rather than making it the only strategy.”