Link: http://www.zarinmedia.com/xmas/2005
Description: Season's greetings and best wishes from Zarinmedia.com to you.
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Thoughts on pitching
Link: http://www.clickz.com/experts/brand/emkt_strat/
Description: An article that makes some interesting observations in relation to business pitches.
My Thoughts: This article got me thinking about my own reactions to the less than ‘best’ practices surrounding the business of our industry.
To take it one step further, I would say, that almost all ‘pitch’ based business situations that I have seen in the past Seven years, have not resulted in the best possible match of supplier/product and client.
Even though a popular expectation from prospects, the expectation of being pitched ideas before they are paid for is very much a flawed one. (clients large or small)
One approach to protecting your business might be to highly qualifying your studio’s business development and sales efforts/resources vs. revenue history with a particular prospective client. However such an approach tends to result in a seemingly aggressive and uninviting business stance towards new business, resulting negatively on your new business acquisition.
Although yearly I save huge amounts of resources in minimizing my companies involvement in such practices, I certainly pay the price through potential loss of business. (I am never sure if it’s a real loss, as it could be argued that such a business one can do without)
Have you run into any other ideas on how to manage the issue? Feel free to email me (address at side of page) with any ideas or thoughts relating to this topic and I’ll post your comments to this blog…
Description: An article that makes some interesting observations in relation to business pitches.
My Thoughts: This article got me thinking about my own reactions to the less than ‘best’ practices surrounding the business of our industry.
To take it one step further, I would say, that almost all ‘pitch’ based business situations that I have seen in the past Seven years, have not resulted in the best possible match of supplier/product and client.
Even though a popular expectation from prospects, the expectation of being pitched ideas before they are paid for is very much a flawed one. (clients large or small)
One approach to protecting your business might be to highly qualifying your studio’s business development and sales efforts/resources vs. revenue history with a particular prospective client. However such an approach tends to result in a seemingly aggressive and uninviting business stance towards new business, resulting negatively on your new business acquisition.
Although yearly I save huge amounts of resources in minimizing my companies involvement in such practices, I certainly pay the price through potential loss of business. (I am never sure if it’s a real loss, as it could be argued that such a business one can do without)
Have you run into any other ideas on how to manage the issue? Feel free to email me (address at side of page) with any ideas or thoughts relating to this topic and I’ll post your comments to this blog…
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Steve's Links
Description: A multitalented associate of mine (Steve Toth) recently brought the following links to my attention. Thanks Steve.
Link 1: http://www.neave.com/
Steve's Thoughts: "he's made some really great stuff including something he calls 'flash earth', which from what I gather is google earth in flash"
Link 2: http://www.magneticn.co.uk/
Steve's Thoughts: "also, the company he works for does some really great stuff... I spent a couple hours checking everything out, its pretty amazing..."
Link 3: http://www.housingmaps.com/
Steve's Thoughts: "the guy combined google maps with craigslist... it shows you the location of every listing, its a pretty neat idea."
Link 4: http://www.itconversations.com/
Steve's Thoughts: "he talks about how when humans have an abundance of choice, it makes them less satisfied with the choices they make. he also talks about 'telecommuting' and how basically when you work freelance every moment is a choice to work... "
link 5: http://www.icompositions.com/
artists/rataplan/
Steve's Thoughts: "lastly here is some of my music, I pieced together an album (numbered 1-14) this past few weeks. I am actually looking for a singer to play some gigs with, if you know anyone don't hesitate to send them the link."
Link 1: http://www.neave.com/
Steve's Thoughts: "he's made some really great stuff including something he calls 'flash earth', which from what I gather is google earth in flash"
Link 2: http://www.magneticn.co.uk/
Steve's Thoughts: "also, the company he works for does some really great stuff... I spent a couple hours checking everything out, its pretty amazing..."
Link 3: http://www.housingmaps.com/
Steve's Thoughts: "the guy combined google maps with craigslist... it shows you the location of every listing, its a pretty neat idea."
Link 4: http://www.itconversations.com/
Steve's Thoughts: "he talks about how when humans have an abundance of choice, it makes them less satisfied with the choices they make. he also talks about 'telecommuting' and how basically when you work freelance every moment is a choice to work... "
link 5: http://www.icompositions.com/
artists/rataplan/
Steve's Thoughts: "lastly here is some of my music, I pieced together an album (numbered 1-14) this past few weeks. I am actually looking for a singer to play some gigs with, if you know anyone don't hesitate to send them the link."
Friday, July 29, 2005
Color in Motion
Link: http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/
Description: An animated and interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism.
My Thoughts: This easy to digest animated, interactive piece is a great fun primer on the psychology of color.
Description: An animated and interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism.
My Thoughts: This easy to digest animated, interactive piece is a great fun primer on the psychology of color.
Sunday, May 22, 2005
Game Research List
Description: I thought that some of the readers of this blog might benefit from a short list of game concepts that I compiled last week when helping a client develop a proposal for a Flash game.
Links:
Multiplayer or might be interesting if we turned it into multiplayer:
fantasticfour game
fridge letters
capoeira fighter 3
gimp roulette (imagine with a crowd of realtime users, betting on the outcome, etc.)
paintball
bowman (very simple and effective, imagine if everyone can shoot eachother while chatting)
ISO:
last dalek
glaktor
laser envy
Adventure / role play
crimson room (good implementation of vector3d in first person)
questfortherest (slow! but like the treatment)
sylvaniah
rocketman
Contagious stuff:
mushroom
elbow twist
Funny:
pee soakamon
antcity
Links:
Multiplayer or might be interesting if we turned it into multiplayer:
fantasticfour game
fridge letters
capoeira fighter 3
gimp roulette (imagine with a crowd of realtime users, betting on the outcome, etc.)
paintball
bowman (very simple and effective, imagine if everyone can shoot eachother while chatting)
ISO:
last dalek
glaktor
laser envy
Adventure / role play
crimson room (good implementation of vector3d in first person)
questfortherest (slow! but like the treatment)
sylvaniah
rocketman
Contagious stuff:
mushroom
elbow twist
Funny:
pee soakamon
antcity
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