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Digital Download: 365-day Emergent Task Planner

POSTED Mon Jan.07.2013 by Dave Seah UNDER Business Stuff, Productivity

UPDATE! Both A4 and US Letter versions now available. Includes “Read Me” file and bonus blank 2013 page. After battling the uncertainty of using XML with InDesign for weeks, I finally got it to import something predictably, which allows me to now offer this: a digital download version of the Emergent Task Planner PDF, with [...]

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4×6″ StickyPad ETP Now Available on Amazon

POSTED Wed Mar.07.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Business Stuff, Productivity

After sitting in Amazon shipping limbo for three weeks, the StickyPad Emergent Task Planner pads are now available! Each sheet is like a big Post-It® note, with restickable adhesive on the back of each sheet. They are sold in packs of 2 pads (each with 50 sheets) for $14.00 per pack. Born from a reader [...]

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A Logo for “Functional Stationery”

POSTED Wed Feb.29.2012 by Dave Seah UNDER Business Stuff TAGGED

I spent part of Tuesday doing some personal logo work for an upcoming business concept: a brand built around the idea of “functional stationery”. It seems like a more engaging way to describe what I do more tangibly, as people know what both words mean, and I think it leads to conversation that is more [...]

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Dream Job for Purveyors of Office Supply Hotness

POSTED Thu Dec.08.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Business Stuff, Encounters

A friend of mine forwarded me the online job posting for a new company/store called Material, saying it was right up my alley. And so I looked, and they caught my attention with the opening lines: Dream Job Available: Entrepreneurial Bad-Ass Who Believes Work/Life Balance is a Crock Everyone talks about Work/Life balance. But they’ve [...]

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European ETP Pad Update

POSTED Thu Dec.08.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Business Stuff

If you placed an order for the Emergent Task Planner European A4 Pad in the past 4 weeks, it looks like the order got hung in the system. We’re using a plugin called WP-Ecommerce, which is a popular free plugin that has premium add-ons. I’m not sure what it is about e-commerce, but this is [...]

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A4 Emergent Task Planner Pads Now Shipping in Europe!

POSTED Sun Jun.19.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Business Stuff, Guest Posts TAGGED ,

The following is a second guest post by Al Briggs, who I’m working with so that we can produce and dispatch Emergent Task Planner pads from within the EU. It’s been great to hear about how he’s shaping his fulfillment process! Here is the latest update since the events of his last post. UPDATE: You [...]

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Two-Packs of ETP Pads

POSTED Fri Feb.04.2011 by Dave Seah UNDER Business Stuff

A few weeks I go I had one of those FACE PALM moments: if I want to sell two-of-a-kind, I save money by packaging them together. I’d run a promotion over the holiday season selling two for 20% off the total price, just to see if sales would be affected. Sales did indeed go up, [...]

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