This weekend, Saturday at 7am to Sunday at 9am I got the opportunity to work with the 9 best Designers, Front End Developers, and Programmers in the Twin Cities at the Overnight Website Challenge. An amazing group of individuals to work with.
We were teamed up with Tatanka Bluffs Corridor, a non-profit that is about developing a tourism industry in the Tatanka Blufs in Western Minnesota. Great bunch of people looking to accomplish some lofty goals. If our team of creatives has anything to do with it, the web site we build and market will help them get to their long term goals.
I used the Challenge as an opportunity to apply Earn1k’s strategy for getting inside you clients head to better understand there needs. It went pretty well. Challenging seeing as this is a non-profit and they are not “selling” a product or service and have a budget of $0, but it was great practice. Got good experience with getting challenging answers to the questions and having to re-ask the questions to get more effective answers.

Well we are over halfway through the Challenge, with but 11 and a half hours left. We have a great design, an awesome brand identity, killer content, and a solid platform for the entire site. Did I mention it was awesome working with this group?