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Stop Complaining and Start Educating Potential Clients

Posted September 13, 2009

Lately I've been reading a lot of blog posts, rants, and articles demonizing the effects of crowdsourcing, cheap labor, spec work, and other such evils in the world; frankly, it's starting to get on my nerves a little bit. While I'm not promoting any of these practices, I'd like to shed a little lig…

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Tagged as crowdsourcing, no spec, marketing, advertising, education, complaining, and outsourcing

Stop Kicking & Ride The (Not Quite) Dead Advertising Horse

Posted September 10, 2008

Maybe it's the books and blogs I read, or maybe it's the rise in popularity of the disaffected emo rocker in mainstream media, but it seems lately that everyone is declaring the death of advertising. Advertising is dead, the consumer reigns supreme, we get what we want and ignore advertising complet…

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Tagged as freelance, design, advertising, rob walker, al ries, laura ries, positioning, lord saatchi, and public relations

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Shawn is a 29 year old freelance designer in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Check out his other project QuoteRobot:

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