make it happen We're a crew of trend-spotting, post-punk, smarty-pants' who do our research, brainstorm like crazy, and build solid marketing, interactive, and biz-dev plans that get the word out about what you're doing. Launched in 2003 as the go-to team to push ideas into action, we've launched tons of cool companies/projects/plans, aren't afraid of getting dirty, and while knee-deep in the excitement of the new school, we keep a hand firmly planted on the sacred rock of the old-school.
There are so many brilliant businesses, projects, and dreams, that need a little boost, or a clearer path, to get them to the next level. It's our passion to provide the tools and services to make the brilliance happen, because when they do happen, we feel we've made the world a little bit better than it was before.
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Using LinkedIn to Research New Contacts (via Dripbook OPPS)
This screencast in one in a series Jason Moriber is producing for Dripbook.com. In this screencast Jason quickly demonstrates a simple LinkedIn research tactic
featured work
Jeffrey Fiterman, Photographer
We make follow-up phone calls on Jeffrey's behalf in response to his email statistics. We gain Jeffrey sought-after portfolio requests from specific, targeted, contacts...more>>>
re: The Auditors, Blog
Francine McKenna, the author and owner of the blog re: The Auditors, originally approached us to assist her with moving her blog from blogger to a more robust and custom platform...Ever since, we've been assisting Ms. McKenna with marketing and business development advice....more>>>
Thomson / All4MP3.com
Thomson needed a refreshed look & feel for their All4MP3.com website. Plus they wanted to use new technologies to keep the site current and more interactive...more>>>
news, thoughts, info
Where the Work will be 2010: The End of the Middle, the Rise of the Middle For small, entrepreneurial, creative and passionate business the marketplace has been hit hard to the point of evaporation. To succeed in the downturn many businesses have shifted focus, either through hyper-specialization, or by the opposite, seeking new and larger markets. The recession has caused a repositioning of businesses to the polar edges of a marketplace scale....more>>>
Trend Analysis: The Lace Economy
We are now entering the Lace Economy (exiting the Web + Bubble Economy). The Lace Economy is both a fine-tuning of our networks and relationships, and a demand for services and products that are well crafted, genuine, and trend towards supporting the local and regional...more>>>
Note for Freelance Creatives: Make Work Happen Freelance creative professionals increasingly ask us these two questions:
1. Is there any work "out there?"
2. Is that work for me?
The answer to both is no, not right now, and maybe not for a while, if ever. There is no work "out there" for anyone anymore in the way it used to be. There is no low hanging fruit; there is no regular gig. If you keep asking these questions then there is no work for you...more>>>
Social Media: Risk or Reward (slides) These are the slides from my (Jason) presentation to ISACA and IAA (the Chicago chapters of national Internal Auditor and IT Governance organizations). The goal of my presentation was to point out the necessity of developing a company-wide social media policy based on these main observations...more>>>
The End of Intelligence, The Birth of Doing, The Decline of Newspapers
Intelligence has a diminished bearing on economic prosperity. Employers are shedding workers by the price-tag regardless of merit, experience, or potential. If business revenues fall off a cliff the first instinct is survival, not productivity....more>>>
The Trend Pendulum
Trends swing like a pendulum, creating waves of fashion, art, culture, business, you name it...there is a cycle to trends (if not everything). In order to find, uncover and act on burgeoning innovations I visualize this cycle (as the following slides will display) and play with this visualization as a "game"...more>>>
