Podcast appearances and mentions of jeff sheldon

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Jack Mitchell and Josh Peterson welcome the newest additions of the I-80 Club onto their podcast network! Jeff Sheldon and Lincoln Arneal of Volleyball State are here and wouldn't know you it, it comes on the biggest news day to hit Nebraska volleyball... ever? They break down the John Cook retirement news, Dani Busboom Kelly becoming the new head coach, and what it means for the portal, 2025, and beyond. Plus, their plans with the Club and what fans came come to expect!To hear more content like this, and get it ad free, become a Patron today for as low as $5 a month: patreon.com/i80club. And don't forget to subscribe to the I-80 Club YouTube channel! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Sheldon is a designer turned entrepreneur. He started Ugmonk, a Pennsylvania-based direct-to-consumer brand, in 2008 as a seller of graphic-inspired t-shirts. His desktop organizers, which he added in 2020, are seemingly unrelated until realizing he designed both — the t-shirt graphics and the desk tools.Jeff first appeared on the podcast in 2020. He had just moved t-shirt fulfillment in-house and launched a Kickstarter campaign for his first desktop tool.In this episode, he addresses phasing out the t-shirts, expanding the (successful) desktop line, and the dilemma of selling on Amazon. For an edited and condensed transcript with embedded audio, see: https://www.practicalecommerce.com/ugmonk-brings-design-to-desk-toolsFor all condensed transcripts with audio, see: https://www.practicalecommerce.com/tag/podcasts******The mission of Practical Ecommerce is to help online merchants improve their businesses. We do this with expert articles, podcasts, and webinars. We are an independent publishing company founded in 2005 and unaffiliated with any ecommerce platform or provider. https://www.practicalecommerce.com 

Jeff Sheldon is a designer, and the founder and CEO of Ugmonk. We talked about his path from graphic and digital design to founding Ugmonk; how he started with graphic tees, and eventually dove into the world of industrial design of organizational and desk equipment for knowledge workers.

In this episode, we explore the intriguing world of Jeff Sheldon, the accidental entrepreneur behind Ugmonk, a brand renowned for its minimalist design and high-quality products. Jeff opens up about his journey from stumbling into entrepreneurship to intentionally crafting his day-to-day life with the Analog Productivity System—a tangible, card-based system designed to help users focus on what's important by keeping digital distractions at bay. Tune in to hear how Jeff's commitment to simplicity and functionality in both design and lifestyle has propelled Ugmonk to success, and how his Analog System can help you achieve greater clarity and productivity in your daily routine.Episode Resources:Ugmonk.com/pages/analoghttps://www.facebook.com/ugmonk/ https://www.instagram.com/ugmonk/MeetRene.comAmplifiimylife.comAmplifyBook.comEpisode Highlights:01:15 - Not a Product Pitch, It's a Lifestyle03:50 - The Creation of the Analog System07:00 - The Need for Simplicity in a Chaotic World08:50 - The Paradox of Simplicity12:00 - Why Jeff Chose Simplicity16:25 - The Daily System19:25 - Best Practices for Using the Daily Analog22:00 - How Should We Be Looking at Our Week28:05 - You'll Do What Is In Front of You, Make Sure What's In Front of You Actually Matters

Tue, 21 May 2024 21:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/focused/204 http://relay.fm/focused/204 David Sparks and Mike Schmitz Ugmonk founder Jeff Sheldon is back to talk about designing and building physical products, how our environments shape our ability to focus, and finding joy in the analog. Ugmonk founder Jeff Sheldon is back to talk about designing and building physical products, how our environments shape our ability to focus, and finding joy in the analog. clean 4939 Ugmonk founder Jeff Sheldon is back to talk about designing and building physical products, how our environments shape our ability to focus, and finding joy in the analog. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now with Zocdoc. Sign up for free. Vitally: A new era for customer success productivity. Get a free pair of AirPods Pro when you book a qualified meeting. Harvard Business Review: The leading destination for smart management thinking. Subscriptions start at just $10/month with code FOCUSED. Indeed: Join more than 3.5 million businesses worldwide using Indeed to hire great talent fast. Guest Starring: Jeff Sheldon Links and Show Notes: Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content. Analog™ | The original to-do system by Ugmonk Gather: Your Desk Simplified | Ugmonk Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal Mike's Fancy Notecards Analog Weekly Kit (Walnut) | Ugmonk Due: The Superfast Reminder App for iPhone & iPad Discbound Heirloom Journal (Brown) | Ugmonk Mike's Obsidian Task Dashboard image How to Do Cal Newport Style Multi-Scale Planning in Obsidian | YouTube Journaling in Obsidian Using Daily Questions | YouTube How to Do a Personal Retreat in Obsidian | YouTube Jeff's Newsletter The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul Aeron Chair | Herman Miller Store Useful Not True | Derek Sivers Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann The

Tue, 21 May 2024 21:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/focused/204 http://relay.fm/focused/204 Analog Productivity, with Jeff Sheldon 204 David Sparks and Mike Schmitz Ugmonk founder Jeff Sheldon is back to talk about designing and building physical products, how our environments shape our ability to focus, and finding joy in the analog. Ugmonk founder Jeff Sheldon is back to talk about designing and building physical products, how our environments shape our ability to focus, and finding joy in the analog. clean 4939 Ugmonk founder Jeff Sheldon is back to talk about designing and building physical products, how our environments shape our ability to focus, and finding joy in the analog. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now with Zocdoc. Sign up for free. Vitally: A new era for customer success productivity. Get a free pair of AirPods Pro when you book a qualified meeting. Harvard Business Review: The leading destination for smart management thinking. Subscriptions start at just $10/month with code FOCUSED. Indeed: Join more than 3.5 million businesses worldwide using Indeed to hire great talent fast. Guest Starring: Jeff Sheldon Links and Show Notes: Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content. Analog™ | The original to-do system by Ugmonk Gather: Your Desk Simplified | Ugmonk Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal Mike's Fancy Notecards Analog Weekly Kit (Walnut) | Ugmonk Due: The Superfast Reminder App for iPhone & iPad Discbound Heirloom Journal (Brown) | Ugmonk Mike's Obsidian Task Dashboard image How to Do Cal Newport Style Multi-Scale Planning in Obsidian | YouTube Journaling in Obsidian Using Daily Questions | YouTube How to Do a Personal Retreat in Obsidian | YouTube Jeff's Newsletter The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul Aeron Chair | Herman Miller Store Useful Not True | Derek Sivers Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann The Great Me

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Designing for a single purpose, published by Itay Dreyfus on May 8, 2024 on LessWrong. If you've ever been to Amsterdam, you've probably visited, or at least heard about the famous cookie store that sells only one cookie. I mean, not a piece, but a single flavor. I'm talking about Van Stapele Koekmakerij of course - where you can get one of the world's most delicious chocolate chip cookies. If not arriving at opening hour, it's likely to find a long queue extending from the store's doorstep through the street it resides. When I visited the city a few years ago, I watched the sensation myself: a nervous crowd awaited as the rumor of 'out of stock' cookies spreaded across the line. The store, despite becoming a landmark for tourists, stands for an idea that seems to be forgotten in our culture: crafting for a single purpose. In the tech scene where I'm coming from, and which you might too, this approach is often perceived as singular, and not in its positiveness. We've been taught to go big or go home - raise millions in funding, build a big company, hire more and more employees, and hope for the desired exit. Anything less is considered a mind of a failure. From a personal perspective I've seen this attitude in almost every branding session I ran with startup founders. Again and again, they struggled to distill their primary focus. Moreover, when discussing competitors, it often seemed their startup competed in every possible field. In a way, that fear of committing reflects the human nature of FOMO - deliberately giving up on something(s) and experiencing the potential loss of other benefits. This mindset has also seeped into our collective body of work, especially in software. A product, which often starts as a weird small creature, gradually evolves into a multi-arm octopus, which sadly became the norm for VCware 1. And so we've been left with bloated, bigger, and… worse software. The idea of maintaining a small scope in product has already appeared in my writing in various forms; in niche product design I explored the effect of growth on design; and in defense of Twitter, I wrote about the bloated era of incumbent culture. But in between there seems to be a different attitude that not many choose to embrace, which like in Van Stapele's case, seeks a real purpose. Going back to basics as a way to find purpose In a tweet posted a few months ago, Jeff Sheldon described his renewed approach to photography after getting a new camera. It enlightened my eyes: I'm not a professional photographer, and never been. But my beloved Canon 700D still serves me often while traveling. Besides learning about ISO and shutter speed settings, being familiar with the mechanics of a DSLR camera has also introduced me to the practice of shooting photos in RAW format, which means capturing photos at the highest quality level. But the super heavy file format marks only the start of the process in modern photography. The rest belongs to the post-processing act: the daunting work of polishing, enhancing, and fixing images. When I returned from vacation, I hoped to edit my captures. Then I noticed something weird. When comparing my photos to some stunning photos I saw online, it seemed like my camera output wasn't as good as those shared photos. In doubt of my gear I then, again, noticed something I should have probably known: it wasn't about the camera, but the editing. I realized professional-made photos were overly edited, often detached from their original conditions. It appeared that what you see isn't what you get. I wondered, has photography become an art of photo manipulation? To respectful photographers, this might appear like a false accusation. The time spent sitting in front of the photo editor is at the heart of many camera enthusiasts. After all, that's why a camera is set to sh...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Designing for a single purpose, published by Itay Dreyfus on May 8, 2024 on LessWrong. If you've ever been to Amsterdam, you've probably visited, or at least heard about the famous cookie store that sells only one cookie. I mean, not a piece, but a single flavor. I'm talking about Van Stapele Koekmakerij of course - where you can get one of the world's most delicious chocolate chip cookies. If not arriving at opening hour, it's likely to find a long queue extending from the store's doorstep through the street it resides. When I visited the city a few years ago, I watched the sensation myself: a nervous crowd awaited as the rumor of 'out of stock' cookies spreaded across the line. The store, despite becoming a landmark for tourists, stands for an idea that seems to be forgotten in our culture: crafting for a single purpose. In the tech scene where I'm coming from, and which you might too, this approach is often perceived as singular, and not in its positiveness. We've been taught to go big or go home - raise millions in funding, build a big company, hire more and more employees, and hope for the desired exit. Anything less is considered a mind of a failure. From a personal perspective I've seen this attitude in almost every branding session I ran with startup founders. Again and again, they struggled to distill their primary focus. Moreover, when discussing competitors, it often seemed their startup competed in every possible field. In a way, that fear of committing reflects the human nature of FOMO - deliberately giving up on something(s) and experiencing the potential loss of other benefits. This mindset has also seeped into our collective body of work, especially in software. A product, which often starts as a weird small creature, gradually evolves into a multi-arm octopus, which sadly became the norm for VCware 1. And so we've been left with bloated, bigger, and… worse software. The idea of maintaining a small scope in product has already appeared in my writing in various forms; in niche product design I explored the effect of growth on design; and in defense of Twitter, I wrote about the bloated era of incumbent culture. But in between there seems to be a different attitude that not many choose to embrace, which like in Van Stapele's case, seeks a real purpose. Going back to basics as a way to find purpose In a tweet posted a few months ago, Jeff Sheldon described his renewed approach to photography after getting a new camera. It enlightened my eyes: I'm not a professional photographer, and never been. But my beloved Canon 700D still serves me often while traveling. Besides learning about ISO and shutter speed settings, being familiar with the mechanics of a DSLR camera has also introduced me to the practice of shooting photos in RAW format, which means capturing photos at the highest quality level. But the super heavy file format marks only the start of the process in modern photography. The rest belongs to the post-processing act: the daunting work of polishing, enhancing, and fixing images. When I returned from vacation, I hoped to edit my captures. Then I noticed something weird. When comparing my photos to some stunning photos I saw online, it seemed like my camera output wasn't as good as those shared photos. In doubt of my gear I then, again, noticed something I should have probably known: it wasn't about the camera, but the editing. I realized professional-made photos were overly edited, often detached from their original conditions. It appeared that what you see isn't what you get. I wondered, has photography become an art of photo manipulation? To respectful photographers, this might appear like a false accusation. The time spent sitting in front of the photo editor is at the heart of many camera enthusiasts. After all, that's why a camera is set to sh...

Jeff Sheldon is the creative mind behind Ugmonk, a brand renowned for curating quality products that combine form and function. In this episode, Jeff shares his journey of developing a meaningful community around Ugmonk, where every product decision is a collaborative effort with the people who love and live the brand's philosophy.  Tune in as Jeff explains how he built a loyal and engaged community of brand fans and why scaling requires special considerations for community-driven, founder-led businesses. Key Points: Product development and customer feedback  Developing a strong personal brand The pros and cons of scaling Resources/Links:  Learn more about Ugmonk Read the Episode Transcript  Follow us on Instagram! Watch Full Episodes of The Entrepreneur's Studio on YouTube. Credits:  The Entrepreneur's Studio is powered by Heartland Payment Systems. Providing nearly 1 million entrepreneurs with the technology to make money, move money, manage employees, and engage customers.

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/tc/105 http://relay.fm/tc/105 Dan Provost, Tom Gerhardt, and Myke Hurley Today's guest is Jeff Sheldon, the founder of Ugmonk, creator of desk products like Analog and Gather. His object is the Fujifilm X100V. Today's guest is Jeff Sheldon, the founder of Ugmonk, creator of desk products like Analog and Gather. His object is the Fujifilm X100V. clean 3037 Today's guest is Jeff Sheldon, the founder of Ugmonk, creator of desk products like Analog and Gather. His object is the Fujifilm X100V. Guest Starring: Jeff Sheldon Links and Show Notes: On The Last Detail, Tom and Dan invite a guest on to chat about an object that is meaningful to them. They dive deep into that object, discussing the design, the manufacturing process, the good, and bad, and everything in-between. Support Thoroughly Considered with a Relay FM Membership Ugmonk FUJIFILM X100V GF1 Field Test — 16 Days in the Himalayas — by Craig Mod The Leica Q — by Craig Mod Dieter Rams' Design Principles - Wikipedia Jeff Sheldon (@ugmonk) – Instagram

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/tc/105 http://relay.fm/tc/105 The Last Detail with Jeff Sheldon 105 Dan Provost, Tom Gerhardt, and Myke Hurley Today's guest is Jeff Sheldon, the founder of Ugmonk, creator of desk products like Analog and Gather. His object is the Fujifilm X100V. Today's guest is Jeff Sheldon, the founder of Ugmonk, creator of desk products like Analog and Gather. His object is the Fujifilm X100V. clean 3037 Today's guest is Jeff Sheldon, the founder of Ugmonk, creator of desk products like Analog and Gather. His object is the Fujifilm X100V. Guest Starring: Jeff Sheldon Links and Show Notes: On The Last Detail, Tom and Dan invite a guest on to chat about an object that is meaningful to them. They dive deep into that object, discussing the design, the manufacturing process, the good, and bad, and everything in-between. Support Thoroughly Considered with a Relay FM Membership Ugmonk FUJIFILM X100V GF1 Field Test — 16 Days in the Himalayas — by Craig Mod The Leica Q — by Craig Mod Dieter Rams' Design Principles - Wikipedia Jeff Sheldon (@ugmonk) – Instagram

Cole Stukenholtz & Matt McMaster react to all the offensive injuries and preview NU-Purdue, look back at an amazing volleyball win over Wisconsin with Jeff Sheldon from Volleyball State podcast, and get ramped up for Husker Hoops with guard Sam Hoiberg.

The guys talk with Joe Jordan of News Channel Nebraska, Bill Stephan of the Lied Center, and Jeff Sheldon of Volleyball State podcast. Plus Fantasy Huskers, Sound Off, and Morning Drive!

Cole Stukenholtz and Matt McMaster review Husker volleyball's top-5 win with Jeff Sheldon from the Volleyball State podcast. The guys also discuss Jeff Sims' future as starting QB, the Blackshirts' early season strengths, and give their picks for the Northern Illinois game.

Who are you? Why are you doing this? What does it all mean? Lincoln Arneal and Jeff Sheldon welcome you to Volleyball State. The guys talk about the historic Volleyball Day in Nebraska, how it levels up the country's fastest growing sports even further, plus look at the national college volleyball landscape, recap Nebraska win at Kansas State and preview the Huskers' in-state showdown with Creighton.

Jeff Sheldon, CEO of Ugmonk, talks about going out on a limb with the skill you love—and running a business as a Christ-follower. Show Notes You can find us here on our social channels.

#639 Having your audience along for the ride as you create digital products to serve them is an incredible tool that increases engagement and connection. But is it wise to use this same strategy for physical products? With knockoffs being a massive concern, is it safe to use open platforms like Kickstarter to fund and launch your best ideas? Those are some of the questions I explore with my returning guest, Jeff Sheldon. He is the founder of Ugmonk, a design studio focused on impeccably crafted home, office, and clothing products. This chat gives us an inside look at what it takes to turn your vision into something tangible and successfully compete in the premium market. Jeff and I discuss the realities of manufacturing and distribution, share advice for finding a niche, and debate the pros and cons of selling digital and physical products. With additional tips for working from home and using ads to find new customers, there's something here for any entrepreneur! Show notes and more at SmartPassiveIncome.com/session639.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jeff Sheldon doesn't buy into common tropes about what it takes to create a successful business, including the idea that more is better. His 14 year venture, Ugmonk has taught him that staying true to your purpose is far more important than growth for the sake of growth itself. Jeff's passion for simplicity and focus on the customer experience shows up in his products and also helps him keep Ugmonk free from the entrepreneurial trap of staying ahead of the competition.   Less is enough, and more isn't better. This simple phrase is something Jeff Sheldon has lived by and has used to keep his business and purpose connected to his roots. His journey and creation of his company, Ugmonk, started with something other than a business plan or the desire to become an entrepreneur. However, fourteen years later, his designs and focus on bringing form and functionality to the marketplace have made him an ongoing success.   Making every product by hand and taking the road less traveled approach to business, Jeff explains why sticking to the core of your business vision and mission is the ticket to true success. Ugmonk's philosophy results from Jeff's passion for high-quality products, customer service, and sustainability, with some inspiration from a Mexican fable on how to live a full and busy life while staying true to oneself.   Jeff joins us in The Entrepreneur's Studio and shares the keys to his business sensation, the future of Ugmonk, and how he connected his products in a world of obsolescence.

Jeff Sheldon does what he does extremely well. But he's also expanded his business from clothes to coffee and paper products. How does he do it without burning out? Listen to today's bit to find out.Listen to the entire episode at https://howibuilt.it/013 Be sure to subscribe at https://howibuilt.it/subscribe This clip is brought to you by WP Wallet ★ Support this podcast ★

Jeff Sheldon does what he does extremely well. But he's also expanded his business from clothes to coffee and paper products. How does he do it without burning out? Listen to today's bit to find out. Listen to the entire episode at https://howibuilt.it/013 Be sure to subscribe at https://howibuilt.it/subscribe This clip is brought to you by WP Wallet

Jeff Sheldon does what he does extremely well. But he's also expanded his business from clothes to coffee and paper products. How does he do it without burning out? Listen to today's bit to find out.Listen to the entire episode at https://howibuilt.it/013 Be sure to subscribe at https://howibuilt.it/subscribe This clip is brought to you by WP Wallet Get your FREE copy of my Automations Library ★ Support this podcast ★

Jeff Sheldon does what he does extremely well. But he's also expanded his business from clothes to coffee and paper products. How does he do it without burning out? Listen to today's bit to find out. Listen to the entire episode at https://howibuilt.it/013 Be sure to subscribe at https://howibuilt.it/subscribe This clip is brought to you by WP Wallet

On the show today is Jeff Sheldon. Jeff is the founder of Ugmonk, which creates products that combine form and function.I wanted to bring him on because Jeff is a fantastic designer that has an eye for detail, he's one of the original founders to build in public, and he's managed to build a successful brand without any paid advertising, which is a huge feat in the e-commerce/DTC industry.You'll hear about how and why they launch every product on Kickstarter first, how he uses storytelling to create immersive landing pages, and how to create remarkable products.More on Jeff: Jeff on Twitter Ugmonk.com Mentions:Eames ChairSponsored by SavvyCal — SavvyCal is a new scheduling tool that prioritizes the recipient's scheduling experience. If you're okay with sending out a generic link that forces the recipient to jump through a few hoops to meet with you, SavvyCal probably won't be a good fit for you. But if you care about providing an enjoyable experience for anyone booking a meeting with you, they're worth checking out. Create a free account at savvycal.com/eim and also get your first month of a paid account free by using the code EIM.

Jeff Sheldon is the founder of Ugmonk, a company I have an enormous amount of admiration for. It's a thoughtful, purposeful, highly effective business that creates and curates beautifully designed products. Jeff has run and grown the business slowly and sustainably (without funding), building an incredibly engaged customer base. This strong customer affinity allows him to launch products through crowdfunding campaigns without a massive marketing budget.We talk through how he built Ugmonk, how he thinks about curation and design, and we go deep on his most recent Kickstarter campaign - a ~half million dollar raise for Analog.  UgmonkAnalogTacklebox Self Serve Accelerator

I started my career as a designer but always wanted to launch my own business. This dream became a reality when I introduced my clothing brand called Ugmonk in 2008. At the time, there weren't a lot of digitally native brands like this. I took zero outside funding. I didn't use any flashy advertising tactics. Much of ... (Read more)

In our 10th episode, we are joined by Jeff Sheldon, Creator and Founder of Ugmonk. Ugmonk is an amazing design studio based out of Downingtown, PA that curates and creates amazing products ranging from t-shirts, to desk organizers, to analog productivity systems. Ugmonk is one of the most thoughtful, intentional, and tasteful brands we have ever seen and so we wanted to know more about the company, Jeff's journey, the successes, failures, and future of Ugmonk. Tune in to hear more about their journey! For more information about Ugmonk and to check out their products, visit www.ugmonk.com Thanks! 

Jeff Sheldon from Ugmonk joins us to talk about his Analog productivity system, connecting dots, intentional constraints, and being a geek for the details.

Jeff Sheldon from Ugmonk joins us to talk about his Analog productivity system, connecting dots, intentional constraints, and being a geek for the details.

This year a new President and a new administration arrived in Washington DC, bringing with them a new agenda for telecommunications and technology issues.  Many of the items on the agenda will affect large enterprise customers and influence how companies plan for the future. Listen to this 10 minute podcast as top Washington DC regulatory gurus and LB3 attorneys, Sara Crifasi and Jeff Sheldon, discuss with TC2’s Joe Schmidt some of the big ticket items that they expect to take center stage in Washington in the upcoming months and years. 

¡Hoy hay un episodio en español! / This episode is in spanish! Se trata de aprovechar la cuarentena y empezar proyectos nuevos, Photo taken by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash Speech in YouTube MY LINKS: ------------https://linktr.ee/Whats_On_My_MIND -------------MY WEBSITE ----Support this podcast with a small monthly donation to sustain future episodes!--- Donate to support the podcast! --------Email: santiago.rojas201613@gmail.com --------Instagram --------Facebook Rate/Review On Apple Podcasts Rate/Review On Podchaser If you want to listen to this podcast on other platforms here they are:------- ----------- Spotify ----------- Anchor -----------Apple Podcasts ----------- Google Podcasts ---------- Breaker ---------- Stitcher ---------- Radio Public -----------Overcasts -----------Podbean ------------Pocketcasts -----------Ivoox -----------Castbox --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/zantilo/message

Distraction-free writing: a process that all writers seek. Find out how in this episode's guest, Adam Leeb, has made it that much easier for you. As a writer myself, getting into the ‘flow state’ isn’t alway attainable. But when I came across the distraction-free writing tool https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=productivity&utm_campaign=mike (Freewrite Traveler), I had to bring on Adam Leeb, the co-founder, to the podcast. Freewrite is a portable tool with no copy/paste or other advanced editing functionality to promote maximum writing productivity. Pure magic. This episode is sponsored by TextExpander. With TextExpander, you can unlock your productivity with its many features. With TextExpander you can make everything you write repetitively available everywhere you type: text documents, spreadsheets, web forms, and more. Unlock your productivity with TextExpander. Visit https://textexpander.com/lp/podcast?utm_source=productivityist-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=textexpander-Oct-2020 (TextExpander.com/podcast) for 20% off your first year.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp offers you access to your own licensed professional therapist – all from the comfort of wherever you are. You can arrange weekly video chats or phone calls, text with your carefully curated counsellor, and do so at an affordable price. And anything you share is confidential. I’ve been using BetterHelp for a while and I am highly impressed. It’s been a huge help for me and I know it can be the same for you. Start living a happier life today with BetterHelp. As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting https://betterhelp.com/timecrafting (betterhelp.com/timecrafting). Give BetterHelp a try today. I want to share with you today The NOW Year Calendar 2021 edition, from my partnership with the team at NeuYear. It’s a wall calendar that comes in both a tall and wide format to help you plan out the year, and it’s based on my TimeCrafting methodology. If you follow my 30 Days of TimeCrafting program, you can choose your Annual Axiom and put it at the top of this calendar, along with adding Daily Themes to the mix. Simply go to https://productivityist.com/neuyear (Productivityist.com/NeuYear). 2020 is rapidly coming to a close, so it’s time to start planning the next year now.Adam is an award winning product designer and mechanical engineer who is obsessed with product design especially in relation to user experience and user interaction. Join us as we explore mechanical keyboards, removing distractions, failed crowdfunding campaigns, and 3D printing over quarantine. Talking Points What attracted Adam to design and Astrohaus (1:03) Developing a tool to help writers stay focused with the creative writing process (3:16)  Their design philosophy (10:26) Specialized vs multi-use products (11:21) Adam’s desire to design products (26:07) Taking more risks (30:24) Being ahead of the curve (32:32) Running crowdfunding campaigns (35:23)  Why crowdfund if you have the clout or finances? (42:40) A reversal approach to productivity (48:06) Quote "It takes energy to resist" Helpful Links https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=productivity&utm_campaign=mike (Freewrite Traveler) https://astrohaus.com/ (Astrohaus) https://adamleeb.com/portfolio/punisher-yo-yo/ (Punisher Yo-Yo) https://adamleeb.com/portfolio/video-confessional-booth/ (Video Confessional Booth) https://twitter.com/WayneGretzky (Wayne Gretzky) https://www.linkedin.com/in/karagoldin (Kara Goldin) https://www.baronfig.com/ (Baron Fig) https://productivityist.com/podcast317/ (Episode 317: The Analog Way with Jeff Sheldon) https://bestself.co/ (BestSelf) https://www.creality3dofficial.com/ (Creality) https://adamleeb.com/portfolio/clapboss/ (Clapboss)...

We sat down with Jeff Sheldon, the founder and designer of Ugmonk, to chat about how he stays organized while running his lifestyle brand from home. With over 10 years of experience working from home, Jeff shared valuable insights about working from home with a family, getting things done, and what the future of working from home may look like.

By 2017, nine years after launching his t-shirt company, Ugmonk, Jeff Sheldon had expanded into posters and workspace products. Gather, Ugmonk's modular desk organizer, had just completed a successful Kickstarter campaign with two shipping containers of custom manufactured organizers en route, to send to customers. "There's no way my parents were going to let two shipping containers show up at their front door. So I used a 3PL. It was a very bad experience. We ran into every problem imaginable.

In late April 2020 the FCC adopted sweeping new rules that will allow potentially hundreds of millions of new WiFi access points and other unlicensed devices to transmit on the same 6 GHz frequencies that are currently used by public safety agencies, energy companies, telecom carriers, and many other licensees for point-to-point communications.  This is a really big deal.  What will happen if those hundreds of millions of unlicensed devices somehow cause interference on the airwaves? Listen to this 8 minute podcast as Jeff Sheldon, a Partner at LB3, discusses with TC2’s Joe Schmidt the impact this ruling has for users of these devices and airwaves.  Jeff also offers some recommended actions that you’ll want to take right now.

Jeff Sheldon is the founder and creator of Ugmonk. Jeff is a designer by trade, and an entrepreneur by accident. I been following Jeff’s journey for the better part of Ugmonk’s existence. I’m also a customer. Jeff and I hold several similar values near and dear to our hearts. In addition to my appreciation for Jeff’s product design abilities, and how he leads his business, I also appreciate Jeff’s awareness and focus on the long hard path.

Jeff Sheldon is the founder and creator of Ugmonk. Jeff is a designer by trade, and an entrepreneur by accident. I been following Jeff’s journey for the better part of Ugmonk’s existence. I’m also a customer. Jeff and I hold several similar values near and dear to our hearts. In addition to my appreciation for Jeff’s product design abilities, and how he leads his business, I also appreciate Jeff’s awareness and focus on the long hard path.

For years I've been following the journey of Jeff Sheldon from Ugmonk. Ugmonk is an online store that sells beautifully designed t-shirts, prints, and work accessories. Jeff started Ugmonk over a decade ago as a side business and it's grown to become a well-recognised brand (you've probably seen stock photos of Jeff's desk around the internet). What I love about Jeff's business is that he likes to keep things small. Rather than producing large runs of each design of a t-shirt, Jeff keeps the business small and manageable so that he can balance his work and personal lives. Jeff often shares behind the scenes of how his products are made and how he does his work. He uses both digital and analogue systems to organise his projects and plan his time. A few years ago, Jeff ran an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign raising over $430,000 for his desk organiser, Gather. And now, he's running a new campaign for his new task management system, Analog (LINK). While I'm not a big user of analogue tools, I really like the idea of writing down your key tasks on a tangible notecard and can't wait to try it out myself. If you'd like to support Jeff's campaign, you can learn more here. Show notes » https://paulminors.com/179 Download my productivity blueprint and learn the processes and tools I use to be more organised and achieve more in my business and home life. You'll also get my FREE 3-part video training series where I'll explain 1) 4 simple steps to supercharge your productivity 2) common mistakes to avoid 3) the 10 productivity tools I couldn't live without. Download here » https://paulminors.com/products/productivity-blueprint/ If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the podcast. I'd also love it if you could leave me a review. Doing this will help more people discover the show so they to can get more done and get more out of life. Intro/Outro Music: "Synthia" by Scott & Brendo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/paulminors/message

How about that last episode?! We're still appreciating having Jeff Sheldon from Ugmonk on our previous Sew Taco Podcast episode. In this episode we reveal some of the details for the next Loca for Local! The second half of the podcast reveals why we dumped one of our brands and what that means now. SEND US A VOICE MESSAGE >> - https://anchor.fm/sewtaco/message (we might put it in the podcast) Discounts Codes, Chisme & Coaching Sessions - Become a Patreon Subscriber: https://www.patreon.com/sewtaco Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sewtaco Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sewtaco --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sewtaco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sewtaco/support

Na história de hoje nosso personagem nos conta a história do pior freguês que ele já teve que atender e conseguiu entender pelo que as mulheres passam. Dá o play pra saber o que rolou! O Adaptação é um podcast onde eu interpreto contos da vida real. Quer ouvir sua história aqui também? Mande para o email: adaptacaop@gmail.com Se você curtiu, compartilhe este episódio! Apresentado por: Mario Jorgi Instagram: @mariojorgi, @adaptacaop Twitter: @mariojorgi, @adaptacaop Não esqueça de seguir o Adaptação na sua plataforma de podcasts preferida. :) Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash Valeu!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, "In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." I couldn't agree more. So I decided to share my thoughts on the quest for simplicity on this episode. Relevant Links https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/simplicity-day/?timezone_offset=nan (Simplicity Day | DaysOfTheYear.com) https://medium.com/@mikevardy/simplicity-is-subjective-822a8fa5fb0f?source=friends_link&sk=af45a5309b2c6c9fc9431fa1ead2a1b4 (Simplicity is Subjective | Me @ Medium) https://productivityist.com/podcast317/ (Episode 317: The Analog Way with Jeff Sheldon) https://www.analogjoe.com/ (Analog Joe) https://productivityist.com/podcast175/ (Episode 175: Soulful Simplicity with Courtney Carver) If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. And if you want to have easy access to the archives of the show and ensure you don't miss the new episodes to come then subscribe to the podcast in the app you're using – or you can do so on a variety of podcast platforms by clicking https://productivityist.transistor.fm/subscribe (here). Podcast Theme Song: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/eFDGyraN87 (Nothing at All by Fictions (courtesy of Epidemic Sound))

Season 7 continues with a bang and we are proud to have Jeff Sheldon from Ugmonk as a guest on this Sew Taco podcast episode. Gerald has been a fan of Ugmonk for many years. This is one of the most motivational episodes we've ever had. In addition to having a rock solid brand for 12 years, Jeff is in the middle of his second kickstarter campaign that has already surpassed $220,000 in funding. His first kickstarter back in 2018 reached over $430,000 in funding. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did! Jeff's latest kickstarter: https://bit.ly/3iIoKKV Shop everything Ugmonk: https://ugmonk.com/ SEND US A VOICE MESSAGE >> - https://anchor.fm/sewtaco/message (we might put it in the podcast) Discounts Codes, Chisme & Coaching Sessions - Become a Patreon Subscriber: https://www.patreon.com/sewtaco Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sewtaco Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sewtaco --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sewtaco/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sewtaco/support

A brand focused on creating and curating thoughtfully designed products, Ugmonk was launched in 2008 as a creative outlet to design products that Jeff Sheldon, its Founder, wanted to wear and use. Over a decade later, Ugmonk continues to expand its collection of well-designed products and clothing and attracts a passionate following from around the globe. Jeff joins Thane Marcus Ringler on the show today to discuss his advocacy and illustrate what it takes to run a small business successfully and do it sustainably. Follow us on the Socials! - Instagram - Facebook - Twitter Check out our YouTube! Leave us a Rating/Review! SUPPORT US ON PATREON! Send us an email - theupandcomersshow@gmail.com The most important thing is to really connect with your "why" and start doing your thing with a clear sense of purpose. If you are looking to have your voice heard by starting your own show, this episode is a must-listen.   

On this solo episode of the podcast, I'm doing something a little different: I'm hosting a guest. Jeff Sheldon joins me on the program to talk about simplicity, productivity, and the story behind Analog. This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education. Established in 1962, UCI offers education for adult learners in Orange County. But thanks to technology, their courses and certification programs in various fields are now available worldwide and online for just about anyone who's interested. You can get 15% off of one (1) course by visiting https://ce.uci.edu/about/trending/toolkits.aspx?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=paidsocial&ut%20m_campaign=productivityist&utm_term=20WI20SP (http://ce.uci.edu/productivityist) then enter the promo code timecrafting. Make sure you take advantage of this limited time offer as it is only valid until July 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm. (Please note that this discount is for almost all of the certificate programs. The exceptions only include coding boot camps, international programs, teacher credentialing programs, and test prep courses.)Jeff Sheldon is the founder and designer of Ugmonk, a brand focused on creating and curating thoughtfully-designed products. Jeff launched Ugmonk in 2008 as a creative outlet to design products that he wanted to wear and use. Now over a decade later, Ugmonk continues to expand its collection of well-designed objects and clothing and attract a passionate following from around the globe. Jeff and I spend a lot of time talking about his Analog venture – which is something I've been experimenting with for several weeks as of this recording. We also talk about design, simplicity, the importance of flexibility, and much more. I've been a big fan of Jeff's work for some time and I'm glad I am able to share our conversation with you on this episode. Talking Points Jeff explains what he does... and what Ugmonk is (1:18) Did Jeff expect the Kickstarter campaign for Analog to blow up like this? (5:20) What made Jeff think that this product was useful for you... and that he should share it with the world? (7:08) Jeff talks about the Analog "card signals" (16:58) Jeff talks about his design study background and process (26:53) Quote "It makes you prioritize... okay I no longer can keep adding to my list because the hours in the day will run out before you can get to all them." - Jeff SheldonHelpful Links http://ugmonk.com/analog (Analog) https://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes (Lore) https://productivityist.com/podcast-83-aaron-mahnke/ (Episode 83: Overnight Success with Aaron Mahnke) https://productivityist.com/podcast213/ (Episode 213: The Bullet Journal Method with Ryder Carroll) https://productivityist.com/podcast203/ (Episode 203: The Evolution of Getting Things Done with David Allen) https://productivityist.com/podcast-73-cal-newport/ (Episode 73: Deep Work with Cal Newport) https://paper.dropbox.com/ (Dropbox Paper) https://hackernoon.com/dieter-rams-10-principles-of-good-design-e7790cc983e9 (Dieter Rams' 10 Principles of Good Design) https://ugmonk.com/ (Ugmonk) https://twitter.com/ugmonk (Jeff Sheldon on Twitter | @ugmonk) http://productivityist.com/fivedollars/ (Take my 30 Days of TimeCrafting fundamentals course) Want to discover some of the books mentioned on the podcast? https://www.scribd.com/g/9a8d8 (Check out Scribd, my reading app of choice.) Podcast Theme Song: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/eFDGyraN87 (Nothing at All by Fictions (courtesy of Epidemic Sound)) If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. And if you want to have easy access to the archives of the show and ensure you don't miss the new episodes to come then subscribe to the podcast in the app you're using – or you can do so on a variety of podcast platforms by...

「人生100年時代」。60歳で定年退職し、余生はゆっくり過ごすというこれまでのシニア像が崩れる中、海外ではテクノロジーを活用して余生をスマートに過ごす「スマートエイジング」という言葉が聞かれるようになっています。そこでははたしてどんなサービスのアイデアが生まれているのでしょうか（出演：岡徳之、行武温）。 Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash

Jeff Sheldon is the founder and designer of Ugmonk, a brand that focuses on creating and curating thoughtfully-designed products. They pride themselves in raising the bar on quality, experience, and aesthetic. Jeff launched Ugmonk in 2008 as a creative outlet to design products that he wanted to wear and use. Now over a decade later, Ugmonk continues to expand its collection of well-designed objects and clothing, and attract a passionate following from around the globe.

EP 78: Using Video for a Better ROI on Email Marketing In Episode 78, Tyler and Jon share that Uber is partnering up with Adomni, an ad-tech platform. Tyler shares that despite the bad press about driver compensation, this is a great way to monetize assets. Jon mentions that the market may be utilized by those with established Out-of-Home marketing campaigns. The pair theorizes that this partnership could be especially effective in tourist-dominated locations for impulse visits to brick and mortar businesses.  Next, Tyler welcomes Oli Bridge, the CMO of Bonjourno, onto the podcast. Oli shares the significance in building solid relationships with individuals in all roles when building a brand while aiming for brand longevity. Tyler and Jon's Words of Twisdom feature a quote by Jeff Sheldon (@ugmonk) this week. Join Tyler, Jon, and Oli for more insight on how to maximize your marketing strategies while establishing customer loyalty. Have you left us a review yet? If not, we'd be glad you did! Also, have a great marketing joke or guest idea to share? Drop us a line at info@lionssharepodcast.com! Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - What’s in the News | Uber’s Partnership with Adomni 04:53 – Featured Guest: Oli Bridge  05:38 – What is Bonjoro? 06:55 – Oli’s Background 08:48 – E-Commerce Marketers' Results with Bonjoro 10:34 – Utilizing Bonjoro Tools to Increase Email Marketing ROI 12:17 – Video Marketing 14:08 – Creating Content 15:08 – Bonjoro's Marketing Strategy  16:23 – Key Lessons from Affiliate Marketing 17:38 – Determining Customer Lifetime Value While Measuring the ROI of Campaigns  19:36 – Most Effective Channels for Customer Acquistion 23:16 – Tracking Bonjoro’s PR Strategy and ROI 25:20 – Oli’s Key Takeaway 26:15 - Words of Twisdom 30:32 - Outro Featured Guest | Oli Bridge LinkedIn Bonjoro What's In the News  Uber’s Partnership with Adomni Lion’s Share Marketing Podcast Learn More About Tyler & Jon www.tylersickmeyer.com  Need Marketing Help?  www.FidelitasDevelopment.com Music Intro Music – Colony House – Buy “2:20” on iTunes Outro Music – Skillet – Buy “Lions” on iTunes

Jeff Sheldon is the owner, designer and driving force behind the brand, Ugmonk. From humble beginnings entering t-shirt design contests to raising over $400k on kickstarter for the Gather desk organizer, Ugmonk is no overnight success. Jeff has consistently been shipping meticulously crafted products for over a decade and in-turn amassed a huge loyal following. We chat about his blend of business and personal branding, minimalism, effective social media channels, how he avoids burnout, Philly Cheesesteaks and the magic number for free shipping in the US.Topics, Links and Transcription: https://robhope.com/to-ugmonk

Jeff Sheldon with the Nebraska Alumni Association talks with Jack about all of the events preceding Husker Football games this year

This week I talk with Jeff Sheldon, Founder of Ugmonk! In this episode we talk about being a creative kid, doing t-shirt design contests, launching his own brand, working with family, staying small on purpose, having an extremely successful kickstarter campaign, turning down opportunity, the future of Ugmonk and more! - [http://founderchats.com](http://founderchats.com/) - [https://ugmonk.com](https://ugmonk.com) - [https://baremetrics.com](https://baremetrics.com/)

Communications infrastructure refers to the underlying public and private property that is needed to create a communications network … things like cell towers, land on which to build towers, rooftops, and even local rights-of-way. Knowing how to navigate the legal and regulatory environment could help enterprises realize faster – and hopefully less expensive – deployments to their facilities. Listen to this 12 minute podcast as LB3’s Jeff Sheldon and TC2’s Joe Schmidt discuss how users are promoting development of communications infrastructure and what the FCC is doing to prevent state and local governments from inhibiting its deployment.

Liz and Sarah talk to business owner and writer Crystal Ellefsen about working from home. Then they answer a Mailroom question about “beauty work” in Hollywood. Then Sarah discusses her recent solo trip to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. This week’s housing Hollywood Hack is affordable and great for making new friends: the Bungalow app! Finally, Liz and Sarah reveal their Kiwami Celebrity sighting: Nancy Carell! Links: The Fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJhX-ccM5k Consulting for Authors: http://consultingforauthors.com/ Crystal Ellefsen’s Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/crystalellefsen Satellite Sisters Episode: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/satellite-sisters/id443780324?mt=2#episodeGuid=gid%3A%2F%2Fart19-episode-locator%2FV0%2FJnkQKn4MNQ9WrdTzN64HTuwlsDyIKVJEPW3-SbvGrZM Broadcast Standards & Practices: https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/topics/censorship-standards-practices Best Friends Animal Sanctuary: https://support.bestfriends.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2884&mfc_pref=T&2884.donation=form1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsZ3kBRCnARIsAIuAV_Skmn31sZ9RWwuw6B09MnuaPJEcWbjLXnrT4EQ0ddmHb3gHBoIVAHYaAtYqEALw_wcB Nancy Carell: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909391/ The Office: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386676/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Steve Carell: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136797/?ref_=tt_ov_st_smKiwami: https://www.katsu-yagroup.com/kiwami-by-katsu-ya/ Randy Jackson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1193098/ Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash

Gather is a modular home for your essentials, thoughtfully designed to help you cut through the clutter. I’d hazard a guess that 99% of our readers work at a desk and that most those will probably be as untidy as mine. Designer Jeff Sheldon, founder of Ugmonk, felt there was a need to a more customisable and attractive solution. So he created Gather, a beautifully designed minimal organizer, a place to bring all your essentials together. His Kickstarter campaign was fully funded within 24hours. I wanted to find out how Jeff managed to pull this off and why this product turned into a popular hit. Header over to our website for the full transcript - https://www.madebyfolk.com/listen/gather/

Season's Finale: Mora invites a former co-worker--Jeff Sheldon. We chat about change, relationships, self identity and personal experiences.

Season's Finale: Mora invites a former co-worker--Jeff Sheldon. We chat about change, relationships, self identity and personal experiences.

If you are stuck in the romantic notion of what it looks like to create a business and you need some motivation to stop running away from the hard work, you're going to love this episode. On today's show we are joined by none other than Justin Jackson, who went from having a day job to being a successful author and creating 100 projects in one year, all to show that it is possible for you to become an indie entrepreneur (even in Canada!). Justin is the founder of MegaMaker, where he advises software, SaaS, and digital product companies. His books, Marketing for Developers and Jolt have sold thousands of copies, and truly saved him from bankruptcy. On his blog and in his podcast he focuses mainly on topics like product marketing, helping entrepreneurs and software companies around the world. Inside this episode Justin shares his experience of pursing his indie entrepreneur dream and how he got caught up in the romantic fantasy of what it's really like to start a business. Justin gets vulnerable, revealing that his initial motivation for creating 100 projects in a year was to impress others and get approval from celebrity entrepreneurs, instead of doubling down on what was already working for him. Plus, he gets super real with us about how you absolutely cannot avoid the hard work that entrepreneurship requires. Show Notes & Conversation: FizzleShow.co/241 (http://fizzleshow.co/241) Key Points From This Episode: Why Justin could not have been an indie entrepreneur without a strong network. [0:03:32.1] The turning point that opened up the possibility for Justin to quit his day job. [0:06:30.1] An overview of Justin's books, and whether or not they are right for you. [0:09:36.1] A single blog post that put Justin on the map; This is a webpage. [0:10:124.1] Justin's journey of creating 100 projects in a year. [0:14:50.1] Learning not to get caught up in the romantic fantasy of being a business owner. [0:25:44.1] Identifying your motivations behind starting a business; do they align with your values? [0:29:29.1] Biggest lessons Justin learned from his challenge of creating 100 projects in a year. [0:36:39.1] Why we get caught up in the idea that “the grass is greener on the other side”. [0:46:39.1] Recognizing that you have to lean in to your discomfort, fully owning your story. [0:49:02.1 Understanding that the beginning stage of every business is difficult. [0:55:19.1] Links Mentioned in Today's Episode: A Toolkit for Indie Entrepreneurs — https://fizzle.co/toolkit FreshBooks — https://freshbooks.com/fizzle Justin Jackson — https://justinjackson.ca/ Justin on Twitter — https://twitter.com/mijustin Mega Profitable — https://megamaker.co/profit/ MegaMaker — https://megamaker.co/ Marketing for Developers — https://devmarketing.xyz/ Jolt — https://justinjackson.ca/jolt/ Product People Podcast — http://www.productpeople.tv/ Build and Launch Podcast — https://buildandlaunch.net/podcast/ MegaMaker Podcast — http://podcast.megamaker.co/ This is a Webpage article — https://justinjackson.ca/words.html Jason Zook — https://jasondoesstuff.com/ Heroku — https://www.heroku.com/ Peter Levels — https://levels.io/ Jeff Sheldon — https://shop.ugmonk.com/ Tobias van Schneider — http://www.vanschneider.com/

You want the cream of the crop, the best of the best, the bee’s knees if you will. We’ve got you. Everyone knows the right idea at the right time can have a huge impact on your business. In this episode, we deliver our favorite and most actionable segments of the last year in a bite-sized format you can put right to work. You’ll discover the best way to start Influencer Marketing with Chase Fisher of Blenders Eyewear. You’ll explore the mysterious concept of Kickstarter “Super Backers” with Jeff Sheldon from Ugmonk. You’ll learn how to work less and make more with Tyler Sullivan of Bombtech. And last but not least, you’ll dive into a segment about “social proofing” your ads with Deidre Kelly. Enjoy! Episode Highlights: 6:06 Outlining strategies to grow your brand with influencers…the tools 10:11 How to track influencer marketing 13:29 Discovering "Super Backers" and their value on Kickstarter 16:25 How much time you should commit to your Kickstarter video 20:15 How to set up Social Proof on your Facebook Ads 23:00 Facebook placements and where you should be putting your ads 27:39 How you can improve your business by finding the things you’re not good at 30:00 Grow your Ecommerce business: Eliminate the options Links and Resources: brandgrowthexperts.com/intensive Chase Fisher Blenderseyewear.com 119: [Case Study] The Science of Influence: How To Double Your Business Using Instagram Jeff Sheldon UgMonk/Gather 123: [Case Study] How Gather Raised Over $430K on Kickstarter Deirdre Kelly Sum Digital Search Engine Journal Social Media Examiner 126: The Big Facebook Advertising Episode for Q4: Part 2 Tyler Sullivan Bombtechgolf.com 124: [Case Study] The Effort Illusion: How Working Less Allowed Bombtech Golf to Finally Explode

Today I'm talking to Ugmonk.com founder Jeff Sheldon about his story, all things Kickstarter, and how he recently launched a campaign that earned close to $500,000. Jeff shares lots of great advice on planning all the little details of a Kickstarter campaign. Podcast show notes available here: https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/session285

Have you ever thought about starting a Kickstarter campaign? Do you wonder how some people seem to have cracked the code on crowdfunding? If so, we’ve got an fantastic episode for you. Jeff Sheldon set a goal to raise $18,000 and ended up with over $430K in pre-orders. In this episode, he unpacks the details of his recent blowout Kickstarter campaign. Jeff shares what it takes to hit a crowdfunding home run and how to avoid some unexpected consequences of Kickstarter success. Enjoy! Episode Highlights: Talking the talk: The Kickstarter Process 5:40 What set Gather apart from others on Kickstarter? 6:27 Building Mass Effect: How to tease your product on Instagram 9:51 Off to the Races: The first day of the Kickstarter campaign 11:30 Discovering Super Backers and their value on Kickstarter 14:06 The Facebook ROAS of Super Backers 15:50 How much time was spent just on your Kickstarter video? 17:04 The Future of UgMonk 19:59   What they don’t tell you: The downsides of running a Kickstarter campaign 22:56 Recovering funds: Where did all the backers go? 24:52 Where is Gather now in the production cycle?: 27:15 Productivity hacks: What Jeff uses to stay on task 29:03   Links and Resources: Dropbox paper Help Scout www.Ugmonk.com Facebook - UgMonk Twitter - UgMonk Instagram - UgMonk Jeff (at) UgMonk.com  

This week on Art of the Kickstart, we spoke with Jeff Sheldon of Ugmonk, creator of Gather, a minimal, modular desk organizer. Tune in to learn more about how he funded in just 47 minutes and what he did leading up to his Kickstarter campaign for it to become such a success. Gather: The minimal, modular organizer that cuts clutter Key Crowdfunding Takeaways Why it’s important to have a loyal, captive audience well in advance of launching a Kickstarter project How to let your product evolve to create something your audience will love How to decide if Kickstarter is the right approach for your product How to manage backer feedback on Kickstarter How to get the #1 spot on Product Hunt What to know about industrial design when designing a product for Kickstarter Why your Kickstarter video needs to be good Links Gather on Kickstarter Ugmonk.com/gather Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown The Purple Cow by Seth Godin Connect with Ugmonk @ugmonk on Instagram @ugmonk on Twitter Ugmonk on Facebook Sponsors Art of the Kickstart is honored to be sponsored by The Gadget Flow, a product discovery platform that helps you discover, save, and buy awesome products. The Gadget Flow is the ultimate buyer's guide for cool luxury gadgets and creative gifts. Click here to learn more and list your product - use coupon code ATOKK16 for 25% off! Art of the Kickstart is honored to be sponsored by BackerKit. BackerKit makes software that crowdfunding project creators use to survey backers, organize data, raise additional funds with add-ons and manage orders for fulfillment, saving creators hundreds of hours. To learn more and get started, click here. Transcript

Jeff Sheldon is the designer and founder of Ugmonk. Jeff started Ugmonk as a side project to serve as his creative outlet from his day job as junior graphic designer. Several years in, Jeff reached a tipping point and decided to go all-in and make Ugmonk his full time focus - growing the product line from t-shirts to other new items with a unique sense of style and minimalistic design. 10 years later, Jeff has shipped his products to over 67 countries, has spoken at conferences like 99u, been featured in publications like The Great Discontent, and launched charitable campaigns that have helped to provide over 50,000 meals to kids. Jeff joins us to share his story, what motivated him to launch Ugmonk, what it was like building the company in the early days, how he know when it was time to go all-in, some advice on building e-commerce brands, where the name “ugmonk” comes from, and much more!

  In this episode of The Bearded Tog I invite the creator and founder of Ugmonk, Jeff Sheldon onto the podcast to talk about his design and product company that he started with just one t-shirt, and now is his full-time job.  I found Jeff Sheldon while I was working at Apple with designer friend Brian Hoff. Brian showed me Jeff's work and t-shirts and I was hooked! Jeff and I also talk about what was the tipping point for him in his business, how his family deals with working, and how his email list and sharing his process has helped further his business! Follow Jeff Sheldon Twitter: @ugmonk Instagram: @ugmonk Website: ugmonk.com -- Follow Adam Mason Blog Instagram Twitter Full show notes: adammason.com/blog What did you learn from this episode? What are you most afraid of? Email me: thebeardedtog@gmail.com The Bearded Tog podcast is created by Washington DC Wedding Photographer Adam Mason Please leave a review: bit.ly/beardedtog

Jeff Sheldon, founder of Ugmonk, a brand that creates smartly designed apparel, work, and lifestyle products. Jeff’s engaging story includes the start of Ugmonk, where he experimented with an idea to bring to life, high-quality, unique items with a modern aesthetic. By designing just a few t-shirts, to see if they’d sell — a couple of years later, he’s working on this experiment full time now, running a well-loved company and brand for nine years. We talk through Jeff’s story from a designer to a business owner, with highlights like adding a social good element to his business; why Jeff is so transparent with his followers; starting a family and balancing work-life; and the things that hold him back. Jeff appears to be an average guy who is experimenting, learning, and enjoying his story. Of course he is clearly talented — creating wonderful products. But he’s also proof that we can follow a dream, do what we love, and also goes to show us, nice guys actually do win.   See more about this episode and the show at: MyBigStory.show JOIN CHRISTOPHER’S ADVENTURE & SEE BEHIND-THE-SCENES PICS, FUN AND MORE Instagram Twitter Facebook ChristopherSwan.info GET MORE STORIES, INSPIRATION, IDEAS, AND MY BIG STORY UPDATES Subscribe to Christopher’s newsletter: Be Inspired LOVE THE SHOW? Tell a friend (literally, go text them right now!), and then give me an awesome rating and review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. This helps others find the show too!

Jeff and I talk about picking names, following your passion, and his great attention to detail in this episode of How I Built It. In a usually saturated market, Jeff has build a great business on t-shirts and other clothing. His insight is fantastic! Show Notes Ugmonk Ugmonk Journal Square One Coffee (sold out) Chemex […] The post Episode 13: Jeff Sheldon & Ugmonk appeared first on How I Built It.

On this week s episode, we re joined by Jason Schuller, a designer and maker of things for the web. His MO is always focusing on elegant simplicity, endlessly being inspired by awesome creative people, and relentlessly learning by making mistakes. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why 201,344 website owners trust StudioPress, the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins. Launch your new site today! In this episode Brian Gardner, Lauren Mancke, and Jason Schuller discuss: The creative career of Jason Schuller Launching Press75 The decision behind the sale of Press75 The allure of side projects Prioritizing family in business decisions Creating Work/Life balance Listen to StudioPress FM below ... Download MP3Subscribe by RSSSubscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Follow Jason on Twitter Visit Jason’s Website Plasso Follow Jason on Instagram Follow Jason on Dribbble Follow Jason on Medium The Transcript The Creative Entrepreneur: Living the Dream Voiceover: Rainmaker FM. StudioPress FM is designed to help creative entrepreneurs build the foundation of a powerful digital business. Tune in weekly as StudioPress founder Brian Gardner and VP of StudioPress Lauren Mancke share their expertise on web design, strategy, and building an online platform. Lauren Mancke: On this week’s episode, we are joined by Jason Schuller to discuss being a creative entrepreneur and living the dream. Brian Gardner: Hey, everyone, welcome to StudioPress FM. I am your host, Brian Gardner. Today I’m joined as usual, with my co-host, the Vice President of StudioPress, Lauren Mancke. Lauren Mancke: Glad to be back this week again, everyone. Thank you for joining us as we continue our series on talking to members and experts of the design community. Brian Gardner: Today we have the pleasure — are joined by Jason Schuller, a designer and maker of things for the web. His MO is always focusing on elegant simplicity, endlessly being inspired by awesome creative people, and relentlessly learning by making mistakes. On top of that, Jason is a personal friend of ours, and we’re very fortunate to have him on the show. Jason, welcome. Jason Schuller: Hey, thanks guys for having me. It’s good to talk to you again. Brian Gardner: Yeah, for sure. We always like to kick off the show by asking the same question, to some degree: Who is Jason Schuller, and what is your backstory? Jason Schuller: It’s funny, I feel like “who I am” is a lifelong journey at this point. I’m 40 and still don’t know who I am. I was born just south of Seattle, out in the country, and grew up loving the outdoors. Snowboarding, mountain biking, things like that. I had a pretty typical childhood that way, here in the Pacific Northwest. I still enjoy all those things. Just love being out here and being creative out in nature. That’s me. Brian Gardner: Give us a little background then, from where you started — at least from a design and being a creative — because you weren’t always that way. As you evolved through your career it leaned that way and then you became a full-blown entrepreneur. The Creative Career of Jason Schuller Jason Schuller: The first time I realized I wanted to be a creative person … I think it’s always in you. We all know, to a certain extent, that’s in you just growing up. But I think the first time I actually realized it was in high school. I took a drafting class, and with those tools and being the perfectionist that I am — just being able to realize the design of a house and draft it out and see something I’ve made come to life. I think that was the first time I realized I wanted to do something along those lines. I always struggled in school. I’m dyslexic. I have a hard time reading books. I have a hard time with traditional learning. So drafting and becoming an architect was a struggle for me, because I wasn’t able to get through those required courses to realize that dream. That was the start and the end of wanting to be a creative person at that time. Lauren Mancke: I actually have a few dyslexic people in my family, and my dad was always concerned about that when I was growing up. I never really had an issue with that, but I can imagine that would be difficult. At what point in your career did you have creative jobs? Did you start in a normal job environment, or did you always have creative jobs? Jason Schuller: I got married really young, at the age of 23, so I was kind of forced to find a job. Because, of course, you got to pay the bills and you got to move out of your parents’ place when you get married. It’s probably a good thing. I found a job at the Boeing company here in Seattle as a technical writer, and that obviously doesn’t really get the creative juices flowing. I think it was at that time when the web really started to take off. I didn’t have any traditional training or education in web design or development, but I had an interest in it. What I started doing while I was working at Boeing was just finding websites, downloading the source code, and playing around and making things my own. Reverse engineering and learning that way. I think that’s when I really started to catch on to what you could do with the web and how I could apply my own creativity to building things for the web. Brian Gardner: So you and I and Cory Miller — another friend of ours at iThemes who we had on the show a few weeks ago — we all had this same sort of story. Where we were at our day jobs, relatively non-involved with WordPress or development or design or whatever, and we just — maybe out of lack of interest or being bored — tinkered around with WordPress and code and whatnot. You were at Boeing, I was at an architectural firm, and Cory was working in marketing at a church or something like that. Let’s talk about the beginning of your WordPress “career,” because it practically coincided with mine and Cory’s. It’s great to look back on those early days when we all had day jobs and were freelancing to start out our businesses. What stands out to you the most back then and what was the funniest part of what we did as WordPress was really beginning to evolve into something more than just a blogging platform? Jason Schuller: Just like you guys, like you said, I was working at Boeing still when I got into WordPress. Every organizational website at the Boeing company is probably still maintained using Static HTML. I was looking for a solution to that, because it seemed like a dated process for creating and maintaining websites — using Static HTML. I was poking around with Joomla, as I’m sure you did too, and WordPress came around. I immediately was drawn to it because of its simplicity. I was able to take all the website templates that Boeing had created and turn them into themes for WordPress really quickly and put together, essentially, a platform for maintaining organizational websites in the company. That’s when I really was drawn to WordPress and the potential for creating things for WordPress. That’s what spurred me into actually leaving the company, seeing that I could do much more than what I was doing. Start going off into a freelance career. I didn’t expect to sell themes at that time. I think in doing that process — leaving the company, starting doing freelance work — that’s when I saw what you guys were doing with premium themes and starting to sell themes. I think was specifically you, Brian, and Aidi with his premium news theme that he had. That’s what really got me interested in WordPress themes and potentially branching out into that market. What stands out the most was how easy it was to build a following within WordPress just getting off the ground. I went from working at the Boeing company, leaving, and within two months having a pretty strong following already in the WordPress community simply by blogging and sharing what I was learning at the time. That really stands out to me the most early in those days, is how easy it was to build that audience and that following. I think the funnest part — to follow up on that question — was meeting people like you, Brian, and Cory and Aidi, and just sharing the fun in what we were doing. Making things, designing and creating themes, releasing them, and having thousands of people consume them. That was just such an exciting time. It’s something that I had never experienced before — I’m sure you hadn’t either — sharing that camaraderie with my supposed competitors, which didn’t seem like competitors at all. I think that was the funnest part. Launching Press75 Lauren Mancke: Walk us a little bit back through the process of creating Press75. You touched on getting started with WordPress. At that time … you started in 2008, is that correct? Jason Schuller: Yeah, I got started in 2008. Lauren Mancke: Brian, you had the Revolution theme going then, but that was before you rebranded to StudioPress, right? Brian Gardner: That’s for sure. Lauren Mancke: Walk us back through the process of creating the company. You mentioned creating a following. Share with us a little bit about what made you stand out among other theme makers out there. Jason Schuller: Sure, my start in WordPress — I actually launched a blog called WPelements. I think that’s how you came to know me, through a plugin I released. Brian Gardner: Oh, the Feature Content Gallery. Lauren Mancke: I remember that plugin. Brian Gardner: Love it or hate it. Jason Schuller: Oh my god. Again, I was just blogging through WPelements, building that following. People were downloading plugins I was making and it surprised me, because I’m not a developer by trade. I’m not a designer by trade. I was just learning and putting things out there — broken or not — and people were following along. That was just the state of what WordPress was back then. It was growing so rapidly and there was such a growing community around it, it was that easy to build that audience. But again, noticing what Brian was doing, what Aidi was doing, and what Cory was doing with the premium themes, it lead me to believe that with this following I had now I could do the same thing. I think what stood me apart was finding my own niche doing something that I enjoyed doing, which was video. There weren’t too many video themes back then in 2008, so I took a stab at releasing a video-centric theme where you can embed videos and have it displayed in a nice grid. My first theme I put out there on WP Elements for $5 and it sold … it was a crazy number of copies within a couple hours. I remember going for a walk with my wife and our dog and coming back and checking the computer to see if I had sold anything, and it was something like 200 copies had been sold or something like that for $5 a piece. That’s when I realized that this could be something. It spurred me to, over the next couple months, releasing a couple more themes and then eventually building Press75 and creating a dedicated theme shop out of Press75. Brian Gardner: That’s the creative entrepreneurial dream. They say “make money while you sleep” is the big dream. You want to do that while you’re at the beach, taking a walk, or while you’re sleeping. I know when I first started selling Revolution back in the day, it was that. My favorite part of the day was when I would wake up and go to my day job and know that by then I had already made $600 or something like that. It’s part addictive, it’s part inspiring, and it’s part, “can I keep this going?” Obviously you get to that point where you have to decide, “Should I actually leave my established day job as a young, married-type of person?” We had a kid at the time, so even more so. Thankfully, Shelly had a job, and a good job at that, so it was a little bit easier for me to take off. But I think we all as entrepreneurs get to that point where we’re not sure if we should jump or not. I remember, I think it was Chris Cree or somebody told me way back then that they had been doing stuff for themselves for seven or eight years and they just haven’t looked back. When I heard that I was like, “I don’t want to not be at that spot.” Jason Schuller: Right, and I think now you can look back and say the same thing if somebody asked you. Brian Gardner: For sure. Jason Schuller: Literally, I’ve been on my own for almost nine years now, and I can’t imagine doing anything else. I can’t imagine going back to work for a company like Boeing and being in that process of a daily grind. It’s so foreign to me now. I can’t even think of going back. When anybody asks me, “Should I do it?” I always say, “Yeah, do it.” I think where we got lucky is that we did it and it worked the first time. It doesn’t always work the first time for a lot of people. Brian Gardner: All right, let’s take a quick break for an advertisement here, because at StudioPress FM, that’s how we roll. Minimalism plus warmth, a winning combination, Gallery Pro is a theme that features your gorgeous galleries and pages in a minimalist style that features stunning typography. You can make Gallery Pro your own with options for a styled portfolio, multiple column classes, a flexible front page, and full color customization. Find out more on Gallery Pro, head over to StudioPress.com/Themes. Brian and Jason s backstory Brian Gardner: All right, we’re back. Now, as I alluded to earlier, you and I created our businesses around the same time. In fact, what many folks don’t know and they’re not aware of, is that at one point you and I actually formed a partnership for a brief period, which ended not too long after it started. Now, I want us to talk about why that partnership failed. I guess failed is a harsh word, because it obviously wasn’t terrible — we’re still friends and you’re on the show and whatnot. But let’s revisit why we decided it was better to part ways, because I think a lot of people might to relate to that and it speaks to the styles of being different types of entrepreneurs. Jason Schuller: It might be different for you, actually, but for me, I think we are a lot alike in a lot of ways. I think that might have been our biggest problem as partners. We both wanted to do our own thing. We both wanted to lead the charge in what we were doing. I think when you have two partners that are so much alike in that way, it leads to problems. I know for certain the reason my marriage works so well is because my wife and I are completely different people. We balance each other out. And I think that’s true for business partnerships as well. When you have strengths and weaknesses and your partner can balance out those strengths and weaknesses with their own, I think that’s what leads to good partnerships. We were both getting started. We saw the potential, and it was just really good that we recognized so early on in our partnership — because it was only a couple months — that we wanted different things. We were able to split ways before it got dirty and go back to doing our own things. And it worked out for both of us. I’m really happy with how that panned out. I don’t regret having a partnership with you at all. I learned lessons from that, and that’s important as well. Brian Gardner: I guess it’s overdramatic because I used the word fail . I wouldn’t call it a fail. Like we said, it dissolved for very good reasons. Like you said, when you have two like-minded people, it’s tough. We just both wanted to create and do that part of it, and then no one was left to do the administrative or the marketing side of it, because all we want to do is create and move forward. I think that the lesson here is you don’t always have to work with other people. Sometimes there are great fits and there are good marriages. I know that when I merged into Copyblogger — the five of us — that was a situation where everybody brought something unique to the table and it has worked out. Our situation is sometimes when … I wouldn’t even say that the situation came between two friends, because it didn’t. We parted amicably. You did your thing. Because you had stuff you wanted to work on, and maybe it was slightly different than the direction I wanted to go. I think we both split and still continued our success, and that was good. Jason Schuller: I really see that as the beginning of me really branching out and being successful with Press75. I saw it as the beginning, not the end, for sure. It was a good experience for me. Lauren Mancke: At the time, I was curious what had happened there. I think, Brian, you had mentioned to me about this. You were using his plugin on your themes and then something happened, and I never heard what happened. So that’s fun, to hear the backstory after all these years. Brian Gardner: I was a little bit skittish back then in what I should and shouldn’t share with the public and people. It’s different than it is now. Even when Revolution — StudioPress rebranded from Revolution because of a cease and desist letter, and I got squirrelly because I was new to this. I did a lot of, “Well, it was the best thing, the great decision.” I didn’t do a lot of backstories because back then I was less into transparency and authenticity than I am now. Now I think I’m more that way because I want other people to learn from the stuff that I’ve gone through. Back then it was all new and I didn’t have any real knowledge to share other than, “This is weird, so let’s not talk about it.” Jason Schuller: Right. I think I was the same way. You get full of yourself a little bit. You definitely don’t want to share those lessons because you’re not — it’s not apparently clear what the lesson is back then when you’re going through it. It takes sometimes a couple of years to look back, reflect, and realize who you were back then and how you want to be now. The Decision Behind the Sale of Press75 Lauren Mancke: Let’s continue in that vein, Jason. What are some of the biggest challenges that you’ve faced with your company, Press75? I know we had a chance to talk at Circles Conference about some of the reasons you decided to sell it, and you’ve also shared with some others about your frustrations with WordPress in general. Can you give our listeners a bit of a behind the scenes on the decision to sell? And did any of the frustrations you’ve had with WordPress affect that decision? Jason Schuller: Yeah. There’s a couple of factors that went into me wanting to sell Press75. I think the biggest challenge, first of all, of running Press75, was trying to stay true to myself and not giving in to the appeal of doing everything that everybody else was doing at the time. I think that was my biggest struggle. I built Press75 on my own style and my own way of doing things, and that’s what made it so popular. I fell into that trap after a while of noticing what everybody else was doing and wanting to do the same thing. Wanting to grow it beyond what it was. That was one of my biggest struggles. The second side to that is the direction WordPress was taking after a while. I think it was around 2010-2011 that WordPress really started to get, in my eyes anyways, pretty bloated compared to what it was in previous years. It was this perfect, simple, content management system that was easy to build themes for, and it became this massive CMS for doing pretty much anything you wanted to do with it. With that came the responsibility in creating themes that people wanted. What people wanted was basically all the functionality that WordPress provided, plus all the functionality that every plugin available for WordPress provided. That’s where I started to disconnect a little bit. I wanted to continue doing my own thing, which is minimalist, simple design, and it wasn’t jiving with what the market wanted at the time, which was everything under the sun. That’s what really led me to go down the path of looking for a new owner for Press75 and wanting to do something different. Brian Gardner: We had Cory on the show, as I mentioned earlier. He and I and Lauren discussed something very important and something that still is under-discussed, I think, in the entrepreneurial space, and that’s all about mental health. Specifically, how it pertains to being an entrepreneur. Now, after selling Press75 during the summer of 2014, I know you went through a pretty rough time trying to process the end of that and what would be next. You went through a period of time … To whatever extent you feel comfortable, can you just talk about that a little bit? What went through your head and some of the emotions and things that were going on after the sale and before you started the next few projects? Jason Schuller: Sure. Yeah, that was definitely a depressing couple of years for a lot of reasons. I think, primarily, when you’re in that game of building something and it’s successful — it’s the first thing you’ve done and it became a success really quickly — you have this attitude that everything you do in the future is going to be successful just like the previous thing. I kind of had that attitude getting out of Press75, thinking that whatever I did next was going to take off and be successful. It just wasn’t the case. That was a big lesson for me to learn. But with that came a lot of depression. I can definitely say that I was the most depressed in my life — from the standpoint of my professional career — than I’ve ever been. But it was twofold, because in my personal life, my little girl had just been born in 2013. Personally, I was on a high. Professionally, I was on a low. Those two were just clashing in the middle all the time, because I had this great need to provide for my family, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it. Learning that lesson that maybe I’m not as special as I thought I was and that not everything I create is going to be instantly a success. Looking back on that, it was extremely important for me to go through that period of a reality check almost, and realize that creating successful businesses takes more work than you actually might think. It’s going to be harder the next time around, even though I have had a previous success. That’s where I am today. And that’s when I started opening up to new opportunities of maybe joining a team or working under the umbrella of another company and seeing what that opportunity has in store for me. That’s when I joined up with Drew Wilson and Plasso. I feel like I’ve grown so much more since doing that. It was an important step for me to take. The Allure of Side Projects Lauren Mancke: You’ve also been working on a number of projects like Droplets and Pickle and Atmospheric. Can you talk a little bit about those and what made you decided to do each one of those? Jason Schuller: I think Brian can relate to side projects and wanting to do everything that pops into your head. Maybe I get a little bit less focused than Brian in that way. It’s one of the things I enjoy most, is doing side projects. But it’s also a big drawback for me as well, because it distracts me from doing the things that I should be doing. I take on these side projects. I want to see something come to life and I put it out there. Then as soon as it’s out there, I lose interest. The process of building them, giving it my all and making something work, I think that’s really a healthy thing. But putting it out there and just letting it just go stale, that’s not so healthy. I’ve been trying to learn for myself and my own sanity to focus on important things and not give in to doing everything that pops into my head. Side projects — they’re kind of a double-edged sword for me. Brian Gardner: I for sure relate to the whole, “Have an idea, carry it out, and launch it” type of thing. I’ve had to be very specific with what I do as a “completely outside of the scope of my job” thing. I’ve only got one thing that I do there. But from a creative standpoint or from a design standpoint, I get inspirations left and right all the time. I’m always in my own head thinking, “Ah, I’ve got this great idea.” Even if it’s an idea of something I would do as a true side project, I try to channel it away and say, “That’s not the right time to actually pursue a actual side project,” but conceptually take what you’re envisioning and wrap that into something that then can become a theme that we sell on StudioPress. Some of the things that I’ve done lately have been the ideas or creative endeavors that I wished to live out, but just dial back the execution part and say “Okay, well at least I’ve put forth some time and effort and energy into something that a) is part of my job, and then b) something that hundreds or thousands of people can benefit from and they do.” Jason Schuller: I’m starting to do that same thing. It feels good to be able to refocus that energy in a different way that makes it available right away under what you’re supposed to be doing. Again, I’m working under Plasso right now and designing and making things for Plasso, so every time I have an idea I’ve been exactly doing what you’re saying, rechanneling that energy into something that maybe could work for Plasso. That seems to be panning out for me, because I can use that energy still and not let it go away. Prioritizing Family in Business Decisions Brian Gardner: We talked about some of the stuff you did at Boeing. That worked its way into WordPress and Press75. Then you sold that and you’ve had some of these fun side projects. Some have and haven’t been included or involved with WordPress. And then you’re doing work with Plasso. But there’s more to you than that, though. I know that because I’m a friend of yours, but also because I follow your Instagram feed, which is a total window into the world outside of Jason as the guy who sits in front of a computer and does design and software and creativity stuff. From the conversations you and I have had over the years, I know that the definition of life for you far exceeds running a business and being a successful entrepreneur. I can think of two things — or shall I say two people — that matter to you more than anything. I’m guessing I’m right here. Jason Schuller: Oh yeah, absolutely. The ability to be home with my family, my wife and my daughter, and be with them more than I actually work has been the biggest gift of my life. Again, I can’t imagine going back to working for that company eight hours a day and not seeing my daughter. Only seeing her in mornings and at night. It’s not anything I can even fathom at this point. This experience is something I’ll cherish forever. It’s actually my biggest motivator in life to keep doing what I do. To be creative, to keep pushing, and to keep learning and growing and stay relevant, so that I can maintain that lifestyle that I like so much now at this point. Because I want to maintain being able to spend as much time with my family as I can. Brian Gardner: We talked to Brian and Jennifer Bourn a few weeks back about maintaining a work/life balance, because they spend a lot of time with their kids traveling and doing things like that. From my perspective from the outside, even though I know that personally you were going through some rough times, to see you post pictures or to talk about — even in the context of a sentence — just saying, “This is my dream. This is my world. Spending time with my daughter and watching her grow up.” From my perspective as a dad, it’s awesome. It’s great to see. And it’s also convicting, because sometimes I don’t feel like I have that much of a conviction to be that intentional about spending time with Zach and Shelly and stuff like that. I’m around a lot. I’m here all day when he’s here. I send him off to school. I’m home when he gets home. But it’s a lesson and a great motivator, like you said, to maintain that. Because once you have that … Of course, things will change as she gets older. Because he’s 12 now and he doesn’t want anything to do with me anymore sometimes, and I’m like, “Okay.” Then you think, “A few more years, he’s going to be out of high school.” I look at Shelly and I’m like, “What are we going to be doing all day long now?” There’s that to consider. But you still have plenty of time left with her. Creating Work/Life Balance Jason Schuller: I look back at those couple of years where I was super depressed from a professional standpoint but just living the high life from personal standpoint … I don’t know, I just have to believe that maybe that’s way it was supposed to be. For me to be there 100 percent for my kid those first couple of years that she was growing up and becoming a person, I think that that was such a special time. I reflect and think of it that way, instead of, “Oh, I was just super depressed all the time from a professional standpoint.” I look back at it — at those pictures, all those videos, and all of those trips that we took together — and remember it that way, as the time I got to spend with my daughter growing up. Brian Gardner: Let’s talk to Lauren. Lauren, how do you feel about the fact that you’ve been able to spend a couple years with Fox? Now you’ve got two more coming, and I don’t know if being home will actually be a good thing for you or not with all the distractions and whatnot. Lauren Mancke: I actually was going to chime in. I think that’s one of the things I bonded with Jason over when we first met, was that family-first mentality. We discussed making business decisions based on that. Putting your family first and creating a work/life balance that gives you the opportunity to be home with your children. I think it’s really important. I heard, Jason, that you’ve got a pretty sweet setup for working from home. Brian’s actually mentioned it on another episode. I haven’t been able to set up my super sweet office yet, but I’ve got schemes and I’ve got visions. What is your favorite part of working remotely and working from home? Jason Schuller: I think you have to make a creative space for yourself. Something that inspires you every day. Somewhere you want to actually sit and spend a good amount of time in, so that you can let those creative juices flow. For me it was building this office. It’s literally just a little room on top of my separated garage. I built it in 2009, I designed it myself. My father in-law and I built it together from the ground up. Now it’s just that space I get to go to every single day and enjoy the view from my office and just be creative. It’s quiet and it’s peaceful. I think it’s really important for us when we work at home to have that space that you can go to and feel that way and just work. Brian Gardner: See, I don’t think I have that. Mine’s called Starbucks. I just rent that space, $6 a day. My office isn’t anything special. I’ve actually had — I still probably won’t do this, because it just would cost too much and it would be silly — but I had this vision of designing the office that I have into a Starbucks. I have a friend of mine who his friend is actually one of the guys who architects and engineers the refurbishment of Starbucks. I was actually going to hire him and say, “Come into my room and do Starbucks stuff.” I was going to put a little live-edged countertop. Put in the floor and some lighting. Really try to emulate a Starbucks. Then I just realized that was probably money not well spent. But I do, I see the pictures of your office. It overlooks the lake there, and you’re always posting pictures of the mountains. “Then I took a quick drive up to go mountain biking.” There are people in this world — you are one of them, Jeff Sheldon is another — who I really have envy over their lifestyle and their ability to connect in places that I don’t live near. So good for you, that you get to have that type of space. Jason Schuller: Yeah, man, I really love living here. I can’t imagine living anywhere else. I’m sure there are plenty of better places to live than Seattle, but I grew up here. I love it. I love being connected to the mountains and nature in general, and being able to do that pretty much within 20 minutes of my place. It’s super important for me to maintain. So yeah, I love it. Brian Gardner: As we wrap this up, we asked Bill Kenney a few weeks ago — from Focus Lab — the same question. I want to do the same with you, because I got a feeling it might be a little bit different answer. I think it’s really important for our listeners to get different points of view, so here it goes: If you had a chance to speak to a group of young designers or creatives and your presentation was limited to five minutes, what would you say to them? Jason Schuller: Wow. That’s a loaded question. Just drawing from my own experience, I think the most important thing, for me anyways, is moving forward. Is not to forget who I am and what I do, because that’s what lead me down a bad path when I was doing Press75, was paying too much attention to what everybody else was doing and trying to emulate that. When I really sat back and did my own thing and did it in my own way, that’s when I was most successful. That’s the most important point for me. Also, making yourself a little uncomfortable at times. I got really comfortable during those years of building WordPress themes. Living that life for a couple years really didn’t challenge me all that much. I’ve noticed this last year of working for Plasso — being with a team and being challenged on a level that I’ve never been challenged before — I’ve grown so much as a person. As a creative person, as a designer, and as a developer. I don’t think I would be where I am now without that continual challenge. I think getting yourself uncomfortable is also a big lesson that you need to keep in mind as you move forward. Brian Gardner: That’s a great answer. Lauren Mancke: That is a great answer. Is there anything else you want to add before we wrap this thing up? Jason Schuller: No, man, I can’t think of anything. It’s been a pleasure talking to you guys, and I wish I could chat with you more often. Brian Gardner: We can make that happen. Whether it’s on the show or not. Jason Schuller: I miss those WordCamps. I’m not in that WordPress scene anymore, but that was the best part of those WordCamps, coming together. Skipping all the presentations and sitting in those halls and chatting with guys like you. People that were doing the same thing. Brian Gardner: I will say this, Circles Conference, for me, has become the new WordCamp thing. I realized I’m more of a creative than I am a WordPress guy, even though I create WordPress products. I love WordPress and I’m so thankful for what it’s done for my life, but I realized my hardcore passion is about creativity. I will say, there was an empty spot in my heart this past year because both of you guys left me. We had the luxury of being together both — all three of us, actually — last year, and I missed both of you there this year. Hopefully next year maybe we can try it again. Jason Schuller: Oh yeah, I’ll be there next year for sure. Lauren Mancke: I won’t be pregnant. Jason Schuller: But you’ll have three kids running around. Lauren Mancke: Yeah. Brian Gardner: Will’s a soldier, he can handle it, right? Lauren Mancke: He’s got this. Brian Gardner: Well, Jason, thank you so much for being on the show. Thanks for being a good friend to us at StudioPress — to Lauren and I — and we look forward to seeing what you come up with next. Jason Schuller: Thank you.

Jeff Sheldon’s lifestyle brand Ugmonk has earned a faithful following of designers and entrepreneurs. He started the brand at the beginning of his design career and his faithful followers have been there every step of the way. In this episode, Jeff talks to Stephan about how promoting brand transparency and staying small has earned Ugmonk an ever-growing, faithful following. Visit the Lumi Blog for photos and highlights from the episode.

Jeff Sheldon is the founder and designer of Ugmonk, a brand focused on creating high quality, well-designed products. What started as a small side project to create and sell simple t-shirts has grown into a full-blown lifestyle brand which he now runs full time. Ugmonk has shipped thousands of products to over 65 countries around the world and has been featured on Uncrate, SwissMiss, Computer Arts, HOW Magazine and more. When he's not designing, you can find Jeff hanging out with his wife and Boston terrier in Downingtown, PA. In this episode we'll discuss the 7th Anniversary set Jeff created for Ugmonk.

Jeff Sheldon, the designer and founder of Ugmonk, talks about growing his side passion project into the well-known lifestyle brand it's become today.

If there's any online company that completely embodies the idea of an authentic online brand, it's Ugmonk. Customer loyalty to the brand is second to none and something all ecommerce brands should seek to emulate. Jeff Sheldon, founder & designer, has taken a small side project and turned it into one of the most successful, most authentic online brands we've ever encountered or worked with. His story is truly one of the most remarkable authentic online brand building stories out there today, and he walks us through the steps he took to grow his business from basically nothing to an "online household name" where customers rarely leave. He explains to us how he created a loyal community of customers that rarely leave him, the early mistakes he made and how you can avoid them, how he built his authentic online brand without advertising, and his plans to take his business to the next level. Key Takeaways from the Show How to create the most authentic online brand The early mistakes Ugmonk made and how you can avoid them Their shift in email marketing and the results it has produced How Jeff plans to grow Ugmonk moving forward & how you can use some of his ideas to move your business forward as well The one thing Jeff suggests you must do from the very beginning Links / Resources ugmonk.com 1,000 True Fans from Kevin Kelly Klaviyo Ugmonk twitter Ugmonk Instagram Click Here for the Transcript Subscribe & Review To get more awesome Ecommerce Influence content sent directly to your device and into your ears as they become available, you can easily subscribe. Also, ratings and reviews on iTunes (hopefully 5-stars!) help us tremendously a we’re very grateful for them. We do read all of the reviews and we’ll answer your questions or comments on future episodes.

This week we talk with Jeff Sheldon from Ugmonk. It all started with a simple idea – design fresh high-quality unique items. Just one month after Jeff had graduated college, married his high-school sweetheart, moved to Burlington, VT, and started a full-time design job, he found myself brainstorming about launching his own brand centered around a love for typography and minimal design: Ugmonk. What started as an outlet for my passion and entrepreneurial experiment quickly grew into much more than just selling a few shirts. Listen and find out how Jeff went from full-time agency employee to full-time Shopify store owner and clothing designer. Check out Ugmonk and pick up some finery for yourself. (I know I've got my eye on those waxed canvas bags. I love the patina waxed canvas develops with use.) PS: Be sure to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes and write a review. iTunes is all about reviews!

Learn to sell your tshirts online as Jeff Sheldon tells the story of how he created Ugmonk and explains how artists can get started designing tshirts.

Grant and Vince say “ship it” to Season 1 of 10,000 HOURS by talking humble beginnings, hard work and resourceful creativity with designer and proprietor of style phenomenon Ugmonk, Jeff Sheldon.

Photo by Jeff Sheldon, via Unsplash.com We are all creative. That does not mean we are all artists, musicians, craftsmen, and designers. At least, not in a common meaning. But we are all creative in some manner, and that is important. Me? I’m a darn good cook and brewer of beer. I’m a pretty creative ... Read moreMYST 60 Trevitorial: Creativity in All of Us!

Amber Naslund, aka Amber Cadabra, and I have been friends for a long time - long in Internet years, of course. As you can imagine, I was thrilled when she agreed to be the 5th guest on Living Your Passion. If you follow Amber on Facebook, it would be hard to miss her PASSION: Dogs, specifically rescued dogs and "changing perception people have about pit bulls and bully-type breeds." We had so much fun during this episode. Lots of laughing. That's what it's all about, right? In case you missed any of the previous episodes, you can catch them here: Episode #0: show intro with me blabbing for a few minutes Episode #1: Jeff Sheldon on Designing Physical Products Episode #2: Nate Bagley on Love Episode #3: Tim McDonald on Connecting People with Purpose Episode #4: Cara Heuser on Pole Dancing Alright. Amber time! During this episode ... We learn how and where Amber and I first me (it may have been at an Awareness event on April 12, 2010, where we were comparing our wrist tatoos - see picture above taken by Ken Yeung). Amber talks about how she just quit her job at SideraWorks and hints at her "what's next" Amber shares how she's always had a love for animals. She's worked for a vet, volunteered at shelters, rides horses, and more! Amber talks about her first dog she adopted from a shelter in 2003 - who just passed away last year. Amber talks about her dogs, of course - and how much time she thinks and is around dogs! I tell a fun story about my dog, Morocco. We discussed "Do What You Love | Love What You Do" - really love her take on this one. We talked about PASSION - go figure! Our dogs talked to each other ... kinda. More About Amber Modern marketing and communications exec. Author. Musician. Pittie rescue mama. Equestrian. Word Nerd. I solemnly swear I am up to no good. - See Amber's Twitter bio. Links Discussed In This Episode My Fond Farewell to SideraWorks - her blog post announcing her departure. Find more about Amber on LinkedIn (how cool is her profile picture?), Twitter, Facebook, and her nearly redesigned  blog, Brass Tack Thinking (isn't it purty?) Facebook was down! Facebook was down! Badrap - learn more about pit bull type dogs and the issues that affect them Enjoyed this episode? Please consider subscribing (if you haven't already). Also, what would be really awesome? If you could rate and review the show ... and use those fancy social sharing icons below to tell the world! Alternatively, you can subscribe to the RSS feed or subscribe via email (scroll to the bottom). Finally, if you know someone who bleeds passion (or maybe it’s you), please email me at djwaldow at gmail dot com. Oh, and if you have a connection to LeBron James, please let me know. I think he’d be a great person to talk to about his passion for basketball. #DeadSerious

A Maternal Fetal Medicine physician whose passion is POLE DANCING? Huh? Yup. You read that correctly. In this show, episode #4, I chat it up with Cara Heuser, a high-risk Obstetrician in Salt Lake City, Utah whose passion is pole dancing - more specifically, using pole fitness and pole dance to exercise but also to express herself and find some deeper meaning in that expression. In case you missed any of the previous episodes, you can catch them here: Episode #0: show intro with me blabbing for a few minutes Episode #1: Jeff Sheldon on Designing Physical Products Episode #2: Nate Bagley on Love Episode #3: Tim McDonald on Connecting People with Purpose Okay. Do I have your attention now? Ha! You will not want to miss this episode. Trust me. Oh, and that picture on the right? That's Cara! During this episode ... Cara and I talk about strip clubs (briefly) Cara explains the difference between pole dancing and pole fitness. We discuss sexuality/sensuality and fitness. How being an Ob/GYN with a passion for pole dancing actually makes sense. Why Cara has chose to not make pole dancing her career. Cara's take on Do What You Love | Love What You Do How Cara suggests uncovering your passion. More About Cara Cara stumbled across pole dance in 2010 while searching for a new form of fitness and was immediately hooked. In her non-pole life, she is a high-risk OB doctor and mother. Her favorite thing about pole is the shoes and sequins. She also finds the friendship and fitness benefits to be numerous.  Links Discussed In This Episode Saturday Chores - a Tumblr blog set up by a pro-choice husband/wife team from Raleigh, N.C. Why It’s OKAY To Say (& Write) The Word Vagina - my blog post about ... vaginas. United Pole Artists SALT Dance and Pole on Facebook - Cara's dance troop. Cara's personal Facebook page. Enjoyed this episode? Please consider subscribing (if you haven't already). Also, what would be really awesome? If you could rate and review the show ... and use those fancy social sharing icons below to tell the world! Alternatively, you can subscribe to the RSS feed or subscribe via email (scroll to the bottom). Finally, if you know someone who bleeds passion (or maybe it’s you), please email me at djwaldow at gmail dot com. Oh, and if you have a connection to LeBron James, please let me know. I think he’d be a great person to talk to about his passion for basketball. #DeadSerious

Episode #1! Episode #1! Episode #1! I could not think of a better first guest on Living Your Passion. Jeff Sheldon is the Founder & Designer of Ugmonk, a company whose mission is to "create high-quality, well-designed goods that we wanted ourselves." Jeff bleeds passion.  On this episode ... Jeff discusses how he uncovered his passion for design, specifically designing physical products Jeff's shares his take on what is means to "Do what you love, love what you do." (I talk too much) Jeff explains how much of day encompasses doing what he loves (his passion) vs. "other" things. Jeff gives some advice about how to find your passion. Jeff reveals the TRUE MEANING of Ugmonk. We have a bit of fun on the #NotSoSecretSecret portion of the show. More About Jeff Jeff Sheldon makes his home in Downingtown, PA with his wife and their Boston Terrier Pixel. He graduated with a B.S. in graphic design in 2008 and has a passion for all things design. When he’s not designing or scheming up the next Ugmonk release, he’s probably raving about Chipotle, trying to dominate Settlers of Catan, planning his next snowboarding trip, or sleeping. (read more) Links Discussed In This Episode Ugmonk's About Page Connect with Jeff on social media - Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. Buy stuff (including the official shirt of the Living Your Passion podcast. Jeff plugs his upcoming 6th Anniversary Set (Limited Edition). At the time of this podcast, it was not live yet. Check out the 5th Anniversary Set.on for basketball. #DeadSerious

Reuben spoke with Jeff Sheldon founder and designer of Ugmonk, a design friendly brand about starting a business and building a brand.