Napoleon, Web design and marketing

The header for this post can be slightly bewildering, but I clarify all in a moment...ok?
So now! first, what is this nonsense about Napoleon if I may ask?
It is no nonsense your honor, but the full and whole bona fide truth as I stand her before you, so help me .... eeeh Bill Gates (He's got the most doe, so he must be the most powerful and divine being...am I right ore am I right?)..




You see I (per ove sleen that is) has finally managed to find someone to work together with on my Napoleon project.
What is your Napoleon project you may ask.
Well, Napoleon project is a little misleading.
You see it is a cartoon...ish project where the storyline takes place during Napoleons raise to power, his reign, his defeat and then his last years on st.Helena together with his death.
But the story itself are going to be a collection of loosely bound together essays, where the action is going down in this timespan.
The story is not going to be exclusively about the big shots like the history usually are, but about the small people.
The bakers, the cobblers, carpenters, shopkeepers, office clerks, blacksmiths, soldiers, sailors, children, women, invalids, authors, poor suckers, thieves, cons, artists, painters, beggars, piano players, prostitutes, doctors, coach drivers, police constables, priests and just about anybody imaginable from that era.
The episodes will be videoed and narrated with music in between dialog and in the background

We plan to involve a lot of people in this project, and to bring in a lot of different media. People can contribute photos, drawings, knit ware if they want, video clips, collages and just about anything creative you can come up with.
If the brass at www.redbubble.com wants us (we are awaiting an answer on a mail My until now mysterious partner sent them), we plan to use the bubble as the resource to get contributors of visual stuff, but also as a place to get the script written by different people, thus keep the story just as divers and colorful as the rest.

Each episodes timespan is directed loosely by episodes in the podcast Napoleon 101.
This eminent and highly informant podcast was also the spark that got me going in the first place (thank you very much David Markham and Cameron Reilly)

My partner in crime so to say, is a colleague from redbubble.com
where he goes by the name of "Muskulare Teeth"
. He is a video editor, graphic artist and last but not least he composes and records the most amazing Chill and Ambient you ever came across.
Here are additional links to my partners different musical expressions online:
isound.com
myspace.com
last.fm
tripljunearthed.com

and

www.myspace.com/sontage
www.triplejunearthed.com/sontage

The pictures in this post are sketches I have done to get a feel for the different things special for the era.
The first two (the inked ones) was done more than a year ago when I first had the idea.



The pencil sketches was done yesterday. And I am continuing the rehearsal of my drawing skills until we start out, cos there is a lot to be wished for in that department. But at least it is a lot better than last year.
I also think a project like this, will to a great extend improve my drawing skills.



At the same time as this is going down, I am still very busy with my new web shop.
There is still a lot of construction work left on that project, not to mention the process of gathering a great collection of products for my customers.
I plan to have Tees, mugs, caps, all kind of sweat shirts, tank tops and just about anything related to tees ore pullovers, posters, prints, post cards, paintings, original art, etchings, tattoos, music, movies and a lot more.
It will not be limited to products designed and/ore produced by Studio45 and me, but rather of a small collection of my absolutely best and most selling art together with a handpicked collection of other artists ore studios work.
But it will all be designer products, and nothing serial produced.
Any prints, etchings, t-shirts and other stuff that usually are made in huge amounts at the time, will only be made in small limited runs. And most of it is produced after the wonderful POD consept.

I am also spending a lot of time on the internet, to find new places to hit with my marketing, when I am not in the process of developing my brand new (and first ever) marketing strategy.
It is all an awful lot of work, and especially when it comes to the boring things like marketing, mailing, accountancies, taxes and stuff like that, I am always trying to find a way around it instead of buckling down and get it done and over with.
But now I have reached a stage where there is now way around thees things any more. I have to pay the price of postponing the important stuff over and over again.

My advice is don't do like me.
Get your marketing and all the other stuff that bores you worked in to your weekly progression/work plan, and you'll see that you'll totally avoid the situation I'm in now, and also your revenue results is much likely to gain from this too.
Next week I hope to be back with a great post about lots of sites I've found on the net, and want to share with you.
It's tips, tricks, referral and inspiration.

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