Barry Smith

We did a road trip to take our daughter up to college at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. We then hit up a bunch of National parks (Yosemite, Grand Tetons, Bryce, Zion) on our way back to Los Angeles. Great trip.

Stop worrying about how to make the next buck and do the stuff that makes me happy. Work on projects like the one I'm doing now (www.giphcards.com), coach youth sports (basketball), go to culinary school, and learn how to play 20 songs really well on the guitar. Cheers

I've worked on a few projects where we spent all of our time on how they would scale. In the end, it didn't make any difference that we had the ability to scale, because the users never came. As an early-stage entrepreneur (https://giphcards.com), none of my stuff scales anymore. It's a bunch of one-offs to see what does and doesn't work. If something works, I put more energy toward it. The...

First and foremost, even a 15% open rate is great. Most companies are looking at 3% or less. Rule 1: The max you should be sending emails out is once per week Rule 2: Only send out emails when you have something of true value to your customers. People only care about stuff that makes their lives better, not yours. Rule 3: Short and sweet. No one wants to read anything anymore. Cut to the chase...

I'm a creative and work in branding, it's really tough no matter who you are if you haven't done it before. The hardest part is just doing it. Coding wasn't easy from day one, you took baby steps to get good at it. The huge difference is that if you write code it either works or doesn't, so the rejection you receive is pure and simple science, nothing feels personal. The opposite is true for...