You may remember that Pokin’ Holes is the same show which featured Swagger Paris, one of The 42nd Estate‘s clients, two weeks ago.

dm Design

Tonight’s episode will feature dm Design, a print and web design company. dm Design was created in 2005. It’ll be interesting to give advice to a company competing in a similar niche as The 42nd Estate (we do web design but with a focus on blog designs for WordPress, no print design).

Here’s a few questions Dave Deblasio, the founder of dm Design, hopes to have answered on tonight’s Pokin’ Holes podcast:

1. How should he determine the price point of his design services?
2. How can a design company like this scale? Will this be a lifestyle business or a growth start-up with a potential exit?
3. With so many other designers out there how can he differentiate DM Design to be a recognizable quality brand?

I’ll update this post with a link once the post is up. See you at the wrap party at Match!

It’s with great honor that we’re introducing Justin Wright as the newest member of The 42nd Estate!

For those of you who don’t know, Justin blogs over at Life of Justin about his trips, hiking expeditions, workplace shenanigans, skating and other interesting topics. Justin has proven himself quite adept at blogging and is going to be an extremely valuable addition to our team.

He’s already helped us out a great deal by creating the great looking logo at We Demand Videos! as well as submitting a few high traffic videos. His experience in web design, graphics, and social marketing will complement the many talents of the existing members of The 42nd Estate quite nicely and really help move the company a few steps closer to our goals.

Pretty big news, eh?