FontBitch No More: Ealasaid !

Very cool.  Another blog has moved from FontBitch to FontSafe.  Check out:

http://ealasaid.com/blog/blog.html

Now sing along with me:

1,000,000 more blogs to go;
one million more blogs;
Fix one font; blog it around
999,999 blogs to go

(now everyone smack Scott in the head)

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Favorite Blog of the Week: Inluminent!

Even though it's only Wednesday, I'm going to still say that my favorite blog of the week has to be Inluminent.  I've been meaning to mention it for some time and have been just a wee bit scatter brained because of other things going on for me in the non - blogosphere (surprisingly, even I do leave the keyboard albeit rarely at times, and, no, my personal life remains deprecatedl; not that type of stuff).  Anyway John is doing just plan a bang up job of blogging all kinds of interesting stuff but mostly in the "I'm starting a business" and "online business" area. 

Like me he also trys to pitch in when some larger issues loom.  His post on Amazon's Big Brother nature is worth reading.  Apparently Amazon's Alexa Spyware is now included in IE 6 -- but you aren't notified of it.  That's just plain wrong.

Anyway, go visit Inluminent now. 

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Picture of the Day: The NoSuchs Get Married

Congratulations
(and go read www.nosuch.org)

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Consulting 101: How Do I Market Myself as a New Consultant

This article is in response to an email from a reader.  Here's the question:

I have been working towards establishing my own Consulting Business for some time now and have done several contracts over the past few years.  I would like to focus on consulting and up to this point have not really found the best way to market myself.

The area I would like to target is Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering in the automotive industry. I have made some contacts but the contracts I have landed have been through "headhunters" and I know there are choice contracts out there but I am not going to find them through a third party search pattern.  I prefer to take control of my own options.

...

I hesitate "jumping the gun" and losing potential contracts because of a bad approach -  first impressions are never recaptured and difficult to change.  Also this industry is very tight, word gets around quickly.  I have to overcome the fact that I am a woman trying to make it in a man's industry without the added hinderance of a
bad first impression...

...

Is it better to approach "face-to-face" or "cold calls" ?  Personally I prefer "face-to-face".  Is e-mail preferred?

==> Read Story <==

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Oops!  Simon Moved!

If you're not reading Simon's weblog and you do web development, you're missing out.  Recommended:

http://simon.incutio.com/

Simon's also the author of the FontFixer bookmarklet (click on it and it makes any web page's text sizable; drag it to your links bar and you always have it) on the list at right and a just a real star in my opinion.

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Very Cool Site: Discuss Products that Should Exist

I thought this one died in the orgy of dot com failures.  Very cool that it didn't:

http://www.shouldexist.org/

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Pants.  How Very, Very Strange.

After a summer of working pretty much exclusively with a very casual non-profit group, I have a meeting with a new client* today and I actually am wearing pants.  It's more than a little strange since I've probably worn pants maybe 5 times since may.  Maybe.  Ah well, such is life.  And, I probably don't even need to wear them since it's about a web site for a yoga studio.  I suspect that shorts could be ok but since you never know, pants it is.

*hence probably limited blogging today

Marketing 101 Note -- It's always interesting to me how companies just fall into niche markets without any effort on their parts.  Since we built the website for another yoga studio, www.yogaforyou.net, the owner recommended us to a friend who runs a yoga studio in a different town. 

Rule of thumb: If you make your customers happy, they'll help build your business for you.

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