Marketing and Management Thoughts

Michael Bierut is one of the partners at Pentagram (one of the most well known agencies in the design/advertising world). He spoke at the 99% conference and gave an insightful talk on how he has designed over the years. Not bad for a guy who says that he isn’t creative, but just loves solving problems.

“Remember who you’re doing it for, and why you’re doing it and you will not go wrong.” – Michael Bierut

The 5 Tips

1. Listen first, then design
2. Don’t Avoid the Obvious
3. The Problem Contains the Solution
4. Indulge your Obsession
5. Love is the Answer

(via 99%)

The MORE! Conference has come and gone. It was a good conference and we got to meet a lot of great people.  Some of you might know that this was our first official conference and kind of symbolizes our stepping out into the open for business world.

It has been really exciting for us over the last 18 months of development, dreaming, planning, and working along side substance church in developing the software to the point that it is at.

The feedback we received from people visiting our booth was amazing. We loved getting to connect with people and hear about what God is doing in their ministries and churches.  It’s always a great reminder of just how big and awesome our God is.

Our plan from here is to continuing to develop the software to be even more cutting edge and integrative than it already is. There are some big plans in the works that we’ll be unveiling over the next several weeks here on the blog and over at nineteen05.com. So if you haven’t subscribed already… make sure you do!

Photo Left: Pastors Carolyn, Peter Haas, and Mark Mellen (Substance Church Staffers)
Photo Right: Haas’ with Myself and Jordan Prins (Nineteen05 Staff)

We are in the process of polishing everything up to high gloss so we can put our best foot forward this next week at the MORE conference. While it isn’t the largest conference or even one all that focused on what we are doing it will be a great opportunity for us to get our feet in the water, and for the first time announce publicly that we’re open for business.

It is really exciting for us. We are still working on getting our toll-free number set up (and will post reviews of our service provider in time), getting the 10′x8′ backdrop in, and setting up our demo computers this coming Monday with one of our freelance designers (Ben Moren).

More photos to come, if you aren’t already make sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.