Here is a list of links for people, products, and et cetera mentioned in my SxSW presentation “Freelancers: You’re Five Products Away From Freedom.”

The Slides in PDF Format (8.2 MB!)

Houdini Audio Labs

Jen Jones Knitmonster Designs

Books by Thomas Myer

Mojo Addons

Devot:ee

StoryPrompts

StoryStarter

BlogPrompts

Let’s Get Social

BaseCamp

WooThemes

ClickBank

Etsy

Five Guys in Kilts

Get Off My Lawn

Myerman

If you’re going to be at SxSW Interactive 2011, I’d appreciate it if you dropped by my panel for freelancers. It’s scheduled for Tuesday March 15th at 11 a.m.

Here’s the description:

If you’re a freelancer, you know that your existence comes down to chasing after lots of client engagements, projects, gigs, whatever you want to call them. If you stop working for any reason (illness, travel, you just want or need a break) then the income stops. Adding products to the mix can be a really great way to add small (but potentially large!) streams of income that you can count on month after month. I’ll talk about using your talents and strengths to create products (ebooks, themes/templates, photography/artwork, plugins/apps, membership sites) that will appeal to an audience and generate sales. Remember, even if you only create a $100/week product, it only takes 5 or 6 of those to really start making a big difference in the way you work and live. This isn’t about creating a “four hour workweek” or some other hyped BS, this is about creating repeatable, realistic income streams.

Here’s the full link.

Is your startup launching a new product at SxSW Interactive 2011? Introducing a new offering? Want to create some buzz around your brand? Then I’ve got a deal for you…

Five of us–Pat Ramsey (@pat_ramsey), Alex Jones (@baldman), Jeremy Arntz (@jeremya), Simon Salt (@incslinger), and myself (@myerman)–will be wearing kilts at SxSW Interactive. We’re basically doing it to have a bit of fun, and because we know we’ll get attention for doing it–and we love getting attention, that’s just the way it goes.

So we thought to ourselves, “Selves, we’re doing this anyway, and being the kind of guys who would pull a stunt like this, why not see if there’s a company out there who would be willing to sponsor the fun!?!” So here we are, at your service.

All of us are geeks–we’re programmers, gadget heads, tinkerers, or what have you–so we can easily communicate the value prop of your whiz-bang with ease and fluency (let’s see a booth babe do THAT!). Each of us also has a fairly large social network on both Twitter and Facebook, giving us quite a good reach for whatever we’re doing a Five Geeks in Kilts.

So, if you’d like to have five geeky spokespersons for your new product launch, your SXSW event, a new book, or anything else that needs attention, then come talk to me. We plan on having a lot of fun during Interactive, hanging out with great people and providing your brand/product/company with the positive, fun exposure it needs among a very influential group of people.

We can make sure that any photos taken of us, blogger interviews, or what have you, are tagged in specific ways on Twitter or Facebook to give your product, company, or brand maximum exposure during Interactive. We can also work within any reasonable constraints you have vis-a-vis events that offer us free booze. Heh.

If you’re interested, drop me a line on twitter (@myerman) or ring me at 512.750.3835.
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