coffeehousejunkie

// something i gave up when the kidlingers arrived… http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/06/artist-studios/

// sometimes my inbox is so intimidating… 40 emails to go… maybe i’ll procrastinate & reply to those emails tomorrow…

‘Economist’s Profit Jumps 26 Percent’: http://www.foliomag.com/2009/economist-group-s-profit-jumps-26-percent // hello, newsweek? time?

// what?! i haven’t checked email in a day. the inbox has 69 emails. good grief, only one day…

// day two of new running routine… yes, neighbors, that crazy-looking visigoth running down the street is me…

GPOYW – old thingy + father’s day edition

Zephrin Lasker writes “Four Simple Steps for Online Publishers (and Magazines) to Increase Revenue.”

They are as follows:

1. Monetize inventory within the existing site framework.

2. Avoid the exclusivity trap.

3. Automate campaign management.

4. Connect with new advertisers.

(via folio)

With all due respect: wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong.

The answer is simple: provide valuable content.

// the homemade café au lait i made last night made me wake up quicker this morning. wonder if the coffee i’m brewing will put me to sleep.

// finishing final edits of 3 poetry book reviews for spr & preparing for tomorrow’s poetry workshop @ flood fine art center…

Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/news-magazines

// found this running schedule for beginners on runner’s world… http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=67#beginner

One person’s “accessible” is another’s “crass commercialism.

John Gallaher

what a mighty storm asheville had yesterday… this is what happened to the corn in the garden…

Eamon Dolan, vice president and editor in chief of the Penguin Press, explained that [a book title has] to communicate the theme of a book almost instantly…. “the title is trying to do something on an emotional level,” to make the reader pause.

Eamon Dolan from TNYT

// i’m on a rss feed diet… i’m down to 8 feeds & i’m pretty sure i can loose some more…

staceycoleman:

coffeehousejunkie:

// i’ve searched at least a dozen stores in asheville for a shaving mug & soap set. does anyone know where i can find one?

I got Lee a set from etsy. I think I just searched “Shave set”

thanks, stacey. etsy has a great selection & reasonable prices…

mountainx tweeted a questioned yestarday: could… the power of social media save pop asheville? now native ashevillians are tweeting & facebooking about solutions to the ‘crisis.’

someone on facebook has the audacity to suggest (during a recession where i know several unemployed designers & cultural creatives) that people pay $50 for advance all-access tickets to pop asheville (last january the price was $15 for an all-access wristband). i suspect the person in question has completely zero, i repeat, zero marketing or events-planning experience.

first, an organization does not penalize the early birds for buying tickets (you penalize the lazy phish fans for showing up the day of the show hoping to score a miracle ticket).

second, if an organization is going to raise the tickets to $50, then consider this option:

offer advance ticket at $20 per ticket – offer good until Oct. 31, 2009
offer special rate of $35 per ticket – offer good until week before the festival
then charge full rate of $50 per ticket the week/day of the event

this is a well-tested, & proven business model. for those interested, i can explain how this business model works & the dynamics involved.

however, there’s another economic force at work regarding pop asheville: marketplace evolution. in short, if an organization can not adapt & survive, then it will die.