One Method Digital and Design

It was around this time that OneMethod started to kick into overdrive. Year one was under the belt (which was a nice feeling considering most start-ups don’t make it that far), and now it was time to really push forward and make something happen.

Flashback to June 2002. I’ve got my one man setup in the living room of my condo. My Business Depot desk and matching bookshelf ($399), a suped-up computer that I built myself to save a few bucks ($1575 – ya…I’m a nerd… you can say it), and my all-in-one fax/scanner/printer ($249) that I gotta run to and swap into the phone line if I hear a fax coming through. Yup, I was living the glamorous agency life that everyone dreams of.

So I’m doing my thang one day, and an opportunity comes across to toss out some pitch concepts on a Nokia project – great opportunity, but we’re up against some of the big boys, so me, I’m not counting on anything. We bust our asses to turn around something quickly, cuz we were kinda brought in last minute, and to my surprise, we get the gig!

Crazy! I have no idea how to pull this shit off, but you know I was gonna do whatever it was going to take to figure it out. When all was said and done, it was a stressful time and we pulled a couple of all-nighters and everything went off without a hitch (well maybe some minor issues behind the scenes, but the client was none the wiser), we produced some killer work and executed everything flawlessly.

Sweet! Time to take a well deserved break and bask in the glory of a job well done… oh shit, phone’s ringing: “Hello… oh… you liked what we did on the last project…. uh ya, ya we do that too…. you need it when?! Oh…ok. I’ll have a proposal in your inbox, first thing in the morning. Bye.” What I didn’t realize at the time was that night was going to be the last bit of REAL sleep I was gonna get for years to come! Welcome to OneMethod – gotta love it!

Moral of the story: If you give up, you’ll never see the payoff.