Helping Your Small Business Find Its Voice
Yannig Roth is a PhD student in Paris who’s working in crowdsourcing and customer creativity. He wrote a blog post today about whether “Crowdsourcing” as a medium delivers on its promise to creatives to bring them recognition and fame, or leads to larger, more prestigious paid work. He Tweeted me to ask me my thoughts […]
Over the last five or six years as a freelancer, I’ve submitted a lot of spec work to various contests, projects, and assignments – mostly in video, but some in copywriting and audio as well. Work done “on spec” means there’s no guarantee of payment out of the gate: You submit the work, and if […]
Since launching in 2007, video crowdsourcing company Poptent recently paid out their 5,000,000th dollar in awards. I was one of the first freelancers to start working with them when they started, and I also happened to be the recipient of that five millionth dollar when Olivieri Pasta purchased an animation I did this spring. Even […]
Just wanted to take a quick moment to thank Maple Leaf Foods, Inc. of Montreal. They selected our animated “Speed Dating” video as one of two winners of their Olivieri Pasta “Mondays Made Special” assignment, hosted by the awesome team at Poptent. I’m now able to say, unequivocally, that Slater’s Garage is an international company. […]
Thanks to Michelle Goodman, a freelance writer, blogger, and author of a couple great books about freelancing, for the article she wrote for entrepreneur.com this week. She and I spoke at length about the burgeoning Crowdsourcing trend in audio, video and design – the (mostly) pros, and (not as many) cons… Clipped from: www.entrepreneur.com by […]