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Off to ETech

Chris and I are off to ETech this week. We are giving a workshop entitled: Community Marketing: Your Customers in Charge
Which is a bit melodramatic for the pretty nuts and bolts workshop we’ve put together.
Stay tuned, because we’ll also post the slides to Slideshare as well as the notes from the session soon!
See you [...]

We furnished our entire office for less than the cost of 3 Aeron Chairs

$2672
That’s less than the cost of 3 Aeron Chairs ($2697). What did we get for $2672? This is what makes it really awesome:

10 desks with ample workspace
20 boardroom chairs (stackable)
4 movable boardroom tables (small, can come together or pull apart)
One Coat rack
4 File boxes
3 perfectly awesome adjustable ergonomic chairs
2 bookshelves
5 waste baskets
One beautiful black leather [...]

What’s your business model?

[from Flickr]
The other day, someone asked Chris, “So, what’s your business model?” Chris looked at him in disbelief and answered, “It’s this strange fangled new thing called consulting. You see, people hire us to spend time on their marketing and product design and then we bill them and they pay us.”
Crazy. The valley is b0rked.

Legitimacy all around

Yep. CA is legit…and so is Tara…

Holy Headspinning, Batman, This Bidness Stuff is Hard

No really.
It’s not a matter of just getting a piece of paper and calling yourself a business. There is work involved in this stuff (beyond the work you have to do to get clients and then make them happy by delivering).
But then, again, we never do it the easy way. Add Canadian immigrant to new [...]

Ben Metcalfe joins founding team at Citizen Agency

The Citizen Agency is pleased to announce that Ben Metcalfe will be joining co-founders Tara Hunt and Chris Messina as the third member of the Citizen Agency.
Ben, who until last month worked for the BBC in London, will be working in the position of “Grassroots Architect & CTO” (or as we refer to it, Citizen [...]

Citizen Update

It has been the craziest of weeks…or was there two weeks? I’m not sure and my head is slightly spinning.
First of all, Chris incorporated Citizen Agency. Then we had a crazy couple of weeks, meeting with interested parties and potential clients and people who just wanted to figure out what the heck we were up [...]