{"id":2265,"date":"2010-07-10T00:24:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T10:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2010-07-10T00:24:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T10:24:35","slug":"dont-do-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/dont-do-it-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Do It Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a new experience today sitting down with 3 other independent graphic designers today for a lunch meal. I tried organizing this way before Christmas last year when I had met these other designers across other networking groups. I figured it’d be fun just to swap horror stories or get inspiration from other like-minded folks. Ended up we always had some excuse or another that prevented us from getting together up until now.<\/p>\n

I ran across this article the other day “Web Designers, Don’t Do It Alone”<\/a>, and it kinda spurred me on to make this happen and get to know these other folks.<\/p>\n

You know what? It turned out great. I told them, “I have no agenda other than to just sit down with you guys and talk story.”<\/em><\/p>\n

We swapped vendor referrals, talked about customer horror stories, even passed tips on to each other how we handled work-flow. I was encouraged that these other designers saw business the same way I did….that we’d rather help each other all get more business rather than be at each other’s necks.<\/p>\n

We made the commitment to each other we’d do this again sometime…maybe a few times a year?\u00a0 Any of you out there are local Hawaii graphic designers who’d like to participate, contact me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had a new experience today sitting down with 3 other independent graphic designers today for a lunch meal. I tried organizing this way before Christmas last year when I had met these other designers across other networking groups. I figured it’d be fun just to swap horror stories or get inspiration from other like-minded folks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-news","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}