Where the heck have I been? (or, what I did on my summer vacation)

Jul 29 2009

courtesy of Sanyam Studios - via Creative Commons, Flickr

No, unfortunately I haven’t been secluding myself on a distant, tropical island but it’s nice to think about, right? It turns out that I have been just an AWFUL blogger this summer and it’s been a terribly long time since I posted anything. But instead of making excuses, I thought it would be fun to chronicle the things that I’ve been doing this summer instead of blogging.

The summer began with the team and I here at Zero-G wrapping up a long bidding process for a high-profile web design project for an up-and-coming cable TV station (yes, there will be more to come on this!). Winning the project required a fantastic referral from one of our favorite clients, several meetings and phone calls, a trip across the country for me and — oh yeah — beating out 25 other firms to earn the business. I’m usually a pretty humble guy and I don’t like to brag but you can’t help but feel validated as a business owner when your hard work is rewarded and when, even after interviewing two dozen candidates, a client feels that you really are the best vendor out there.

This summer, we also became agency of record for NFCC (North Fulton Community Charities), a group that has been helping feed, clothe and otherwise care for the needy here in our community north of Atlanta. For the last two months we have been engaged in a complete overhaul of that organization’s branding, web site and marketing materials, top to bottom. Our work for NFCC will be unveiled this coming September and our team is extremely excited.

In the middle of all this, working with our other clients and bidding on other new business opportunities, Frost and I also wrote a book, which will be available next month on our web site and on Amazon.com. As always, we’ve also been hosting some terrific guests on Gravity Free Radio. Our interview with Scott Allen, author of The Virtual Handshake, is a must-listen for anyone looking to get involved with social media, by the way.