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		<title>The Pursuit of Passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of talk out there about passion.
&#8220;Do something you&#8217;re passionate about.&#8221;
&#8220;Try to find your  true passion!&#8221;
Is passion just a driving force to help us accomplish our goals in life? Is it something that we really need to discover, or do we already know but won&#8217;t admit to ourselves what it is?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a lot of talk out there about passion.</p>
<p>&#8220;Do something you&#8217;re passionate about.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Try to find your  <em>true</em> passion!&#8221;</p>
<p>Is passion just a driving force to help us accomplish our goals in life? Is it something that we really need to discover, or do we already know but won&#8217;t admit to ourselves what it is?</p>
<p>Maybe being passionate about what we do for a job is a selfish pursuit. I mean, do folks who&#8217;ve been laid off get to choose something they love to do when they have bills stacking up?</p>
<p>Or is passion simply a point on the horizon that we should all be striving towards. Sure, maybe this minute we don&#8217;t LOVE the work we&#8217;re doing, but does that mean we need to give up?</p>
<p>I would like to think that passion is that little voice inside reminding us what is really important in our lives. Perhaps passion isn&#8217;t just an ingredient we need in our jobs alone, but also in every aspect of our lives. Something to keep us balanced, motivated, relaxed and inspired.</p>
<p>Maybe we should call it the &#8220;pursuit of passion.&#8221; We &#8220;pursue happiness&#8221; so why not passion?</p>
<p>This post is rather rhetorical, I realize. I&#8217;d love to hear you&#8217;re point of view.</p>
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		<title>Urgency is the New Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I met with a potential client who is struggling to carve out a strong market share, and their website isn&#8217;t helping things any. The problem is that they have their own in-house development team who they feel should be able to create a new web presence for their company.
Unfortunately they are getting hung-up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week I met with a potential client who is struggling to carve out a strong market share, and their website isn&#8217;t helping things any. The problem is that they have their own in-house development team who they feel should be able to create a new web presence for their company.</p>
<p>Unfortunately they are getting hung-up on technology. They are more concerned about the platform than they are about delivering their company&#8217;s primary message. It&#8217;s like debating what fire hose to use when the building is on fire.</p>
<p>Companies need to see the urgency that is ingrained in the &#8217;social media&#8217; age. It&#8217;s not about planning, planning and more planning. It&#8217;s about finding your best ideas and then showing the world in a unique and interesting way.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have an excuse to not be joining the conversation already happening in your industry. If you don&#8217;t speak up, your customers will make up their minds about you anyway.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get hung-up on technology. Your competition isn&#8217;t beating you because the have some super-secret weapon. They&#8217;re beating you because they&#8217;ve done it &#8211; and you&#8217;re still planning.</p>
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		<title>Twitter Contest Banner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nifty animated .gif design I created for a Twitter contest. I believe the contest was one of the first of its kind, and spawned many clone contests thereafter. Animated GIFs are easier for analytics programs to track. Building a relatively smooth one under 150 kilobytes takes some practice. This one features the Flip [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a nifty animated .gif design I created for a Twitter contest. I believe the contest was one of the first of its kind, and spawned many clone contests thereafter. Animated GIFs are easier for analytics programs to track. Building a relatively smooth one under 150 kilobytes takes some practice. This one features the Flip MinoHD camera, and weighs in at only 75 KB. It&#8217;s pretty much no-nonsense but is high-contrast to attract attention.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-23" title="Flip MinoHD Twitter Contest Banner" src="http://bradcoughlin.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/flip-hd-contest-1c.gif" alt="Flip MinoHD Twitter Contest Banner" width="133" height="500" /></p>
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		<title>Ringtone Website Incentivised Banner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This banner has a 4 or 5 part message for the viewer, then a call to action button placed strategically below the text once the message has been played. Bright, high-contrast orange and green colors set this advertisement apart from the light blue elements on the original web page.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This banner has a 4 or 5 part message for the viewer, then a call to action button placed strategically below the text once the message has been played. Bright, high-contrast orange and green colors set this advertisement apart from the light blue elements on the original web page.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32" title="skyscraper-v2-generic" src="http://bradcoughlin.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/skyscraper-v2-generic.gif" alt="skyscraper-v2-generic" width="120" height="600" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-33" title="generic-468x60" src="http://bradcoughlin.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/generic-468x60.gif" alt="generic-468x60" width="468" height="60" /></p>
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		<title>Prescription Drug Website Splash Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prescription drug online pharmacy website needed a splash page to welcome visitors prior to their initial launch. This design fills a 1920 x 1280 pixel area, filling the screen of very high resolution monitors. The content box in the middle is designed to contain the brief welcome message in html.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A prescription drug online pharmacy website needed a splash page to welcome visitors prior to their initial launch. This design fills a 1920 x 1280 pixel area, filling the screen of very high resolution monitors. The content box in the middle is designed to contain the brief welcome message in html.</p>
<div id="attachment_38" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://bradcoughlin.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/scrips-america-splash-page.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-38" title="Prescription Drug Website Splash Page" src="http://bradcoughlin.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/scrips-america-splash-page-150x150.jpg" alt="Prescription Drug Website Splash Page" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Prescription Drug Website Splash Page</p></div>
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