I’ve spent that last 4 hours in my basement alone, blasting 80’s music on Pandora while tying to figure out what I want to accomplish for the next year.
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Today on the show we have
Frank Page
Frank Page has been a cartoonist his entire adult life.
Frank currently works for his local newspaper doing graphics, layout, or whatever else needs to be done that day. On his very limited free time, he is able to create a daily comic called Bob the Squirrel (over 12 years running). To add to his crazy schedule, he also creates a comic called squirrelosophy.
Things mentioned in this episode
I was listening to a podcast (can’t remember the podcast) where the interviewee (can’t remember his name) was talking about how he reads a book a week. He just schedules a specific number of pages per day, does it before noon, and has been doing this for over a year.
My Challenge
My challenge to myself is to accomplish what this man has been doing. My goal is to read a minimum of 52 books over the course of the next 52 weeks. It is obviously do-able.
I am working on doing animation workshops this Summer.
Here is my general promotional poster.
It has been a lot of working lining these workshops up, but will be a lot of fun!
Today I have a very simple, but powerful tool for you.
It is a Business Breakdown poster for your work space. It gives you a look at your market, what makes you different in that market, how you are niched down, and a look at your ideal customer all on one sheet.
Once you fill out the poster, you might want to print it out and post on the wall or save it as your wallpaper on your computer’s desktop.
If you want to jump into downloading the large format image, the link is at the bottom of the post, but I suggest reading through the explanation of how to use and the example below before getting started.
How to use the Business Breakdown Tool
Today I received a surprising message from Kickstarter. According to their newest press release, they will be changing their name from Kickstarter to Kickstartr.
Why would such a popular website change its name now?
Well, there is a long list of companies that have done this in the past.
For example:
- The Walt Disney Company use to be called Laugh-O-Gram Studio
- Xerox was originally Copy Cat Company
- Nissan started car production as Datsu
- Apple inc before incorporation was Job Industries.
For the reason behind the change, you must read the press release below:
While being elbow deep in working on the second comic book of the Madman of Magic series, I have decided it might be time to start planning my first non-fiction book. It is an idea I have had for over 5 years and something I would like to finish this year.
I am not sharing the book topic or title yet, I want to keep some things a surprise, but instead I will be sharing some great articles I found while contemplating self-publishing vs finding a publisher.
