Justin Murphy and I are really into the show Shark Tank right now! I guess it's the entrepreneurial spirit in our house that attracts us to it. On a recent episode, we watched a lady selling a sort of marker used to identify different meats after grilling. The product was clever and had attractive packaging. The owner seemed level-headed and mature in the videod background story shown before her pitch began. But there was something about her presentation that struck us as strange: This professional, articulate woman showed up at the pitch in a red, polka-dotted, retro-type dress and full out winged eyeliner. We couldn't understand it. To us, she seemed more like Minnie Mouse than a professional businessperson! The look she sported just didn't match the brand she represented. On the other hand, a pair of business partners selling a type of grease cleaner for cyclists ...
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What's new with YCP in 2012? We wanted to take the opportunity to get you up-to-date on what's happening with the team! It's been a great year for YCP as a business, but also for our team members personally. David Dierking, our Lead Developer, tied the knot! Most of us made the trip to Rock Hill, NC to be present at the ceremony and we're so happy to have Ciara present at our team events now. Though it's hard to ever get a picture of David smiling (he says he is always smilling inside!), we all can testify that he was full of grins on his special day, and it seems like the lunches he's bringing in are better quality these days! Senior Interactive Designer, Michael Golus, has always been active and this year he took up sport climbing at a local climbing gym The Mountain Goat (did you know we had a climbing gym in Greenville??). Michael's artistic side goes beyond graph...
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Apple held a keynote address today and revealed their latest gadgets just in time for Christmas, for all you early shoppers out there. Apple began by reviewing data commending the sales and customer base for their previous products, including the recently unveiled iPhone 5. Of course, it's too soon to release anything new for the iPhone, so the only announcement pertaining to that was an update to/free download of iBooks. There will also be an update to iBook Author for the iPad, and it too is available for free download today. The iBook software continues to be relevant to any of our clients who work in education.The interactive eBook/textbook keeps repeating its refrain: I am the textbook of the future. YCP continues to become more experienced in ebook production in anticipation of the continued growth of this technology. Ready to produce your own eBook? Let us help...
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At Your Creative People, we enjoy brainstorming and dreaming up ways to innovate and improve our CMS product, Backstage. As one of our clients, did you know you can be a part of that creative process as well? In a large way, our client's help to build Backstage by highlighting the needs of their industries or businesses and pointing out ways to make our Backstage CMS even simpler for you to use! Have you seen the "Submit an Idea" feature in Backstage? When you discover a need for a new feature, or even just a neat idea that you think could streamline your process of updating your website, mobile site, or app, click the button and share it with us! We take and review every idea individually. Any idea that can benefit all Backstage users is added to our development list for inclusion in a future upgrade. We're not promising your idea will go into effect immediately, but...
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