Next Steps

Okay so I have so many projects that need to be begun an completed and the most important project is the one that makes money NOW! What are the projects that are open or that need to be opened:

1. Coupow.com - This project needs to either succeed or fail by the beginning of the Fall semester 2011. I don't have time to keep messing around with this idea anymore. Either its going to work or it needs to go away. In order for me to successfully succeed or successfully fail with this project I need to make enough site demos to bona fide owners that I can tell whether or not its going to fly in Chico. If not, I need to move on to Sacramento and see how it goes there. The number of bona fide owner demos that makes sense to me is 50. Of course, I need at least 50 sales just to make the thing fly fora 48 page (188 coupon)book. The only thing I am waiting on right now is the pricing flyer (the one sheet) that I plan to use for my demos. I think I'll just wing the first demo instead of trying to plan the whole thing out. I also need to create a quick contract for getting owners to sign up and get the check. I may also need a coupon mockup that will allow me to fill in the offer copy for the print version. If I could, I would really like to get my hands on a Padfone or something like it, a motorola xoom maybe, that I could use for me sales. What I really need is about $2000 right now. Anybody want to give me a $2000 gift because I have interesting ideas and you want to help me with them? :)
   
2. Swagship.com - Swagship is my "entertain and education" project. I intend to create a learning environment which teaches people how to use Adobe products to get creative and create all kinds of digital assets which they can then sell publish and sell in the swagship store. So the focus will be on creating sellable stuff (SWAG). The main focus will be on creating Stories With Animation & Games (swag), but I also want their to be a place for creating comic books out of story boards and creating characters and putting them on t-shirts, sell the e-book or kindle book version of their story. People will also be able to learn how to create digital assets that support other kinds of storytelling such as branding and marketing. These kinds of assets may include stock imagery etc. So I guess I'm creating a stock agency with takes a very active role in teaching people how to create valuable digital entertainment, publish videos, books, games, animations on various platforms as well as create the same kind of stock that you find at sites like istockphoto.com. The target market for this site are people who want to become their own entertainment / designer brand.
3. A big part of the Swagship project is to try to make the creation of that site tie into the creation of my msp 12 and msp 7475 classes as well as an online version which I would like to offer to California Community Colleges and to community colleges and any college, for that matter, all over the country.
4. I have stated in the past that I want to create the content for the swagship project before I start laying out the site. This means that I will need to create course content as well as example projects that fit within a well organized curriculum. I am taking a class over the summer that will help me to get my ideas together on how I am going to get this job done by the end of 2012.
5. I also want to focus on the creation of some kind of digital assets on a daily basis. I may not be able to create a digital asset everyday, but I want to start on my first one, finish it, try to get some money for it or at least permission to start posting digital assets and then do the second one and the third one, etc. until I get faster at it. I also want to do this because I will become better and "entertaining and educating." I want to be a New Media Expert so it would be good if I at least new how to use, at the intermediate level or better, all of the products in the Adobe CS suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, Premiere, In Design and others. As a matter of fact it may be a good idea to approach the creation of these assets by the software product that I choose to create them with. This way I could actually create two digital assets at once. I could record the process of the creating the asset using Camtasia and then sell the digital asset and use the camtasia recording to promote my vlog/blog etc. Start with the digital asset that will be the most fun to create. If I try to keep it fun it will be easier to complete. Also try to create digital assets which will help you to know how to brand swagship using after effects, video, web design etc. Be BRAVE! Have FUN!
   
6. I would like to get my hands on the best current tutorials using photoshop magazines and especially all of the magazines published by Future PLC, and then convert my process of going through those tutorials into my own tutorial product and the unique, "my-styled" digital assets which comes out of it.