Here are some notes that I took during yesterday’s Cre8Camp. Enjoy.

Passive Income

• Four-hour workweek and Tim Ferriss
• Drop-shipping:
  • Doba.com
• E-commerce
  • Magento Shopping Cart
• Self-publishing books
  • Lulu
• Framework programming to improve efficiency

User-Experience Design

• Important questions regarding users:
  • How many?
  • What types of personas?
  • What are they trying to achieve?
• Paper testing wireframes
• CrazyEgg
• Silverback

Creative Community Next-Steps

• Schedule a consistent gathering:
  • Weekly – saturated, but reliable.
  • Bi-weekly – still reliable, less saturated.
  • Monthly – too infrequent for consistency and reliability.
• Possibly tie in the Mad Collective’s 4:59 workshops.
• Reach the creative college student market, somehow.
• Hard-to-reach creative “voyeur” group that fears networking
• Venue for “adult beverages” preferential

Giving Back

• Pro-bono work:
  • Invoicing for pro-bono work with value of donation.
  • Clearly define scope, to avoid scope-creep.
  • Tax write-offs of pro-bono work with value of time. (ex. treating yourself as an employee of your own business, and accounting for your salary/time)

Thanks to Truen, Jeff, Rebecca, Lainie, Element Graphics, NWGI, Santiago (for the shirt design), and everyone else for participating and helping in a successful event.

Posted by Andy Vaughn on May 17, 2009