When it comes to technology shaking up industries, perhaps nothing has shaken up the world as much as the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. ChatGPT became the fastest growing userbase in history, amassing 152 million visitors in its first month. If you were like me, you were blown away by the […]
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I write on a myriad of topics around the Web and thought I would share them all in one place. Below is a sampling of some articles I’ve written and presentations I’ve done. Content Marketing Content Strategy: 7 Essential StepsA definitive guide on how to create a content marketing strategy. One of the biggest and most successful
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At the beginning of July, I received my first royalty check from my first novel. Four days ago, the check was on its way to the shredder. This is the story of how my wife and I got it back.
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You’ve spent months, maybe even years writing a story. Now you’re nearing the end of your characters’ journey and you’re thinking, “How in the hell do I wrap this up?” You’re not alone. Writing endings can be one of the most stressful parts of storytelling. If you’re writing from an outline, you may find that
About a week ago, give or take a day or two, I self-published my first book, Mantrap, to Amazon. (Hurray for me, high fives all around – which, when you’re alone, is really just clapping.) Here’s a breakdown of what my plan was for that first week and what I learned along the way. Step
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When I started writing this blog, my goal was to write a new post every week. “That’ll be pretty easy,” I told myself, “No problem.” I’m staring at the date of my last post, which was over a month ago, and wondering, “What the hell happened?” Real life happened.
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Life is really short Sure, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do, but while you’re doing it, you may as well make the most of it. By nature, I’m not very adventurous. I’m more of a nerdy guy who would rather take something apart and reassemble it than go climb a mountain. My senior year
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I’ve spent the last week putting together a final revision for my book. The book was originally written for my friends, and starred them as characters. Everything about the story was fictional, but since it starred my friends, I forced some things to happen (and not happen) because I thought it would be rude to,
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I have a pretty cool day job where I get to share best practices in SEO, public relations, and marketing to the public. I do a webinar about once a month and write for my company’s blog. I’m blessed to work with great people who have taken me under their wings and showed me the
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Finding story ideas can be tough sometimes. Sure, just about everyone has their million dollar novel idea, but shaping that idea into a true story and adding the detail to keep readers engaged can be daunting. Here are 7 sources for story ideas that you can use. Overhearing/Eavesdropping This sounds a lot worse than it
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When creating comedic scenes and premises, there are a lot of tried-and-true devices and formulas we can work with. One of my favorites is fish out of water. So what does fish out of water mean? It’s very much like it sounds. A fish out of water scene entails a character (the fish) being outside
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Designed and developed this website for MPP Aviation, a flight training school based in Lincoln, NE. This site was done on a budget and the design hasn’t changed in over 4 years. However, this site still brings in over 45% of its views from search engines and ranks in the top of search results locally. It has also brought new business for its owners and reaches markets that they wouldn’t be able to reach through other, more costly methods.
This re-branded newsletter template was created for the Alzheimer’s Association. The design and layout was created by Brandon Andersen to fit their new organizational branding.
I only got to spend a few weeks working with the great people at ALZ, but we did some pretty cool stuff while I was there. Unfortunately the event micro-site that they had up has since been taken down and I never got a chance to get a screenshot of it.
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Co-designed and developed the website for the sketch comedy group that I co-founded. This site was used for promotional purposes and also includes videos from the Monkey Don’t sketch shows. Don’t judge me on those videos…I was young and wasn’t afraid to look like a buffoon onstage.
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This site was created for Coca-Cola’s 2005 Employee Insights Pulse Survey. The design of the site was created by Brandon Andersen, based on initial criteria from Coca-Cola.
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This site was created for L’Oreal Canada’s Employee Opinion Survey 2005. The concept design was created for the paper survey by L’Oreal Canada. It was adapted to the Web by Brandon Andersen.
