Mayhem Studios May News 2008

Mayhem Studios Newsletter | May 2008

Self-Promotion Made Easy: Mayhem Studios Interviewed on FreelanceSwitch

Calvin Lee, Principal and Creative Director of Mayhem Studios, award-winning design studio located in Los Angeles, was interviewed by the FreelanceSwitch web site and written by Kristen Fischer, Self-Promotion Made Easy: An Interview with Calvin Lee. The interview focuses on self-promotion and spec work with the designer.

A thank you also goes to Jeff Fisher, Jeff Fisher LogoMotives for writing about the Studios FreelanceSwitch interview on his blog, Identity Crisis.

About FreelanceSwitch
FreelanceSwitch is a site for freelancers. Whether you’ve been freelancing for years, have just started or are considering making the switch, this is the place to get all the information and support you need.

About Kristen Fischer
Kristen Fischer is a freelance writer living at the Jersey Shore. She began writing Creatively Self-Employed: How Writers and Artists Deal with Career Ups and Downs during 2004, after experiencing many trials and triumphs while forming her copywriting business. She released her second book, Ramen Noodles, Rent and Resumes: An After-College Guide to Life in Spring 2007.

Mayhem Studios Complete Redesigns For City of Los Angeles, Council District 3 and Council District 7 Web sites.

The Studio completes another successful project for City of Los Angeles. Launching the new web sites for City Council District 3 and Council District 7.

It's the goal of the City Council Districts to address the most important concerns. Focusing on public safety, Neighborhood Councils, graffiti abatement, and those issues facing seniors and youth. Addressing the problems that affect the constituents is the number one priority.

The Council District staff is ready, willing, and able to assist in any way necessary to improve the quality of life in their City Council Districts. The Council District views this job as a partnership between Council Districts and the community.

TIP: Social Bookmarking Equals More Traffic

In past newsletters, I have written about Networking and Marketing On-Line with business, design and portfolio web sites along with forums.

Another great way is Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking is sharing your content like articles, blog posts, press releases and personal bookmarks on bookmarking web sites. It's a good way to bring more traffic to your web site.

By bookmarking on these web sites. It's the easiest way to get registered on search engines. Search engine spiders crawl all the major bookmarking web sites and will lead to links on your web site.

Another important thing to remember is to include keywords, labels and tags on the bookmarking web sites. Makes it a lot easier for people to find your bookmarked links.

A few resources to Social Bookmarking web sites

+ Digg
+ del.icio.us
+ Stumble Upon
+ Reddit
+ Design Float
+ Yahoo
+ Technorati
+ Blink List
+ Furl
+ Simpy
+ Spurl
+ News Vine
+ Blog Marks
+ Ma.gnolia

About Mayhem Studios
Mayhem Studios is a small, award-winning design firm located in Los Angeles. Developing identity and brand recognition for small, mid-size and large businesses across the nation. The Studio uses strategic and creative design with effective messages targeted to the client’s specific audiences to produce identity and branded collateral pieces, annual reports, brochures, logo design, advertising & interactive web sites.

Calvin Lee, principal & creative director of Mayhem Studios is a graduate of Platt College and serves as a member of the Platt College Advisory Board for the Visual Communications Department, NO!SPEC Committee and on the Creative Latitude Management Team.

Contact
Calvin Lee | 2360 Cabot Street | Los Angeles, CA 90031 | T: 323.276.9503
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