So you’re a high school student, going onto college, and you’re about to enter the workforce for the first time.  Or you’re a full time student, getting ready to graduate to your first desk job.  You know you’re ready for the work ahead of you, but you’re not quite sure what to expect.  I’ve taken the liberty tp prepare for [...]

Website Design? So you want to build websites for a living?  It’s not that unusual.  In fact, it’s a common goal for many people, because the web design industry is incredibly fierce with competition, and there are many, many talented and not-so-talented people in the industry right now.  If you are going to stand a chance, you need a strategy [...]

Don’t Skip This Important Step! It’s important before you produce anything that you know who you are trying to market your product towards. Not everyone shares the same definition of value, and if you are expected to provide value to your audience, then you must pinpoint what group of people has a need for your product or service. Now you [...]

The Blogging Age It’s March 2009, and the blogging age is fully underway.  Everyone and their mama has a blog nowadays, and if you’re one of the millions of bloggers out there, I want you to ask yourself why?  If your reason has anything to do with amassing a large fanbase of readers, then what you need to do is [...]

Everyone Has Two Careers. Their Career, and the Film Industry Ok seriously, who here hasn’t considered making a movie before?  Unless you come from a country that doesn’t have the luxury of watching motion pictures, I defy anyone to honestly tell me that they’ve never once felt the urge to make their own movie.  If you tell me that you [...]

This post is my contribution to a group writing project, Creating Value.  The object of this project is to write about how we intend to create a more value driven society as opposed to a profit driven society.  This happens to be a topic that I feel very strongly about, and is one the bedrock principles of Swollen Thumb Entertainment.  [...]

I’d be willing to guess that you probably want more out of your career.  After all, it’s human nature to want more than what we have.  It’s what has made us the dominant species on this planet.  We’re never satisfied.  However, for the majority of the readers out there, this feeling is probably justified.  You probably have a ton of [...]

So you’ve decided to stop letting time pass you by, and to embrace your calling in this world?  Since you’ve established your goal, the next step is getting started.  But how does one get started? There’s a term that I will use often in my future blog postings, and that term is “The Entry Level”.  What I mean when I [...]