An online sales funnel helps a stranger become a customer. When someone first finds your brand, their first impression is not, "I need to buy what they are selling right away! Shut up and take my money!" It might seem like that's the right way for customers to find you, but that doesn't become the long-lasting relationship that builds [...]
I must confess, I made this website for dads because I wanted to show off all the cool tricks I can do as a blogger. For years, I have been blogging on other people's websites, and designing fantastic interactive experiences for clients. Until I made BeTheBetterDad.com, I didn't have a pretty palace to call my own on [...]
Video is about moments. The emotional power of a moment is incredible. For a powerful moment, anyone will stop what they are doing and pay attention. Collecting moments, however - that can be a challenge. During one of The Aware Show's interview summits on Light Therapy, there were plenty of moments, spread over more than [...]
After working on it for more than a year, I've finally launched my new blog! This project is a culmination of 2 years of investigation. When I went to Pioneer Nation in 2014, I had just come back from Costa Rica, and I was trying to figure out some way to brand myself beyond the 'web [...]
Here are some images I have designed. Follow Caelan's board Social Media Graphic Design on Pinterest. People share things that make them feel valuable to their audience. When designing a social media image, there are 5 main considerations: It has to look pretty. It has to be the correct dimensions to look good on the platform. [...]
The Hanged Man (Trump XII) is a card of opposites, paradox, waiting, and patience. This is the card for my 38th year. Every year I draw a tarot card for my birthday. Reviewing the cards I've drawn in the past, and the years I've had alongside them, allows me to view my own life through the lens of [...]
Ordering two cups of coffee, my wife and I sat down for one of our most cherished rituals of the year. We had our favorite notebooks, with the pens that made us feel powerful when we wrote across the page, and together we wrote our New Year’s Resolutions. Yesterday’s Annual Review helped me calibrate myself for the year [...]
This was a great year. 2015 gave me more victories than failures, and instead of pressing courageously forward, this year I paused to marshal my resources, and decide on the direction I want to go for the next five years. The biggest lesson I learned this year: I've now been a member of Fizzle for [...]
Pioneer Nation is a gathering of internet creatives with a blog and a passion, committed to doing what they decided was their work in the world. There's this weird synergy at the convergence of authenticity, audience, and the Internet, where people can find a good problem to be solved and offer a solution to anyone who has this [...]
Which would you choose? A long and safe life, or a short and daring adventure? “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly [...]