This year I've spent a lot of time builing up the events network websites, especially for Christmas. The main site, Christmas-Events-Near-Me.com is probably 10x better than last year, if not more. I changed frameworks twice and found a lot of very affordable solutions for creating a map-based direct...

I've recently published/updated a few more sites I've been working on. The first is minigolfminigolf.com which is a site dedicated to.... mini golf! I was suprised how many courses we had in Austin. Seems that mini golf has been having a moment. There is, of course, the classic Peter Pan but also at...

I've published what I am sure is the best 4th of July events website ever made. You can see it at https://4th-of-july-events-near-me.com/ Currently I have about 500 cities on there but will up it to over 1000 in the coming weeks. It's based off the work I did with https://christmas-events-near-me.co...

Here's what I learned in my cold emailing adventure. It has been frustrating and more expensive than I thought it would be. So I'm writing this to help anyone that is considering doing a Cold Emailing campaign with Instantly.io, Hunter.io, or other tool Why Not Just BCC Everyone? Using the same emai...

I'm continuing to take time off to work on a couple of other projects, but wanted to give an update. The Eureka Room is still open, but typically just once a week (Friday at 6pm) and for the occasional private showing. I've been working like crazy on the websites. I learned a lot from doing 4th-of-J...

I'm mostly taking a break from the Room for now. I do one showing a week on Fridays (usually) at 6pm and the occasional private showing. During my break, I've been working with a lot of AI tools and coding with a couple friends. It's easy to make spammy sites with AI, but with some work AI also make...

Here's a very common mistake made by experience designers and other creative professionals. What it feels like to make a thing is not what it feels like to experience the thing. When creating, it's very easy to get excited about an idea or a tool or a goal met or an insight or an inside joke or one...

For my next set of posts, I'm going to focus on some lessons learned while creating experiences. While doing your work, challenges come up. Most of these challenges should be taken care of with the minimum time, effort, and cost to sufficiently overcome them in a way that still is in accordance with...

If you’re looking for books on how to make successful IRL Experiences and/or immersive experiences, you can find some books on the subject. Not a whole lot, but some. But let met tell you where you can find 1000’s of books to help make your experiences successful. Books filled with scientific studie...

Read part 1 of this post here. Ways to Minimize the Cost of Switching Modes Set (some) expectations. You can let your participants know ahead of time that there will be a few modes. (Obviously, you don’t have to call them modes. And probably shouldn’t.) If they don’t know what sorts of modes to expe...