When we started BizComics two-and-a-half years ago, we thought it was a good idea. We still do. We believed cartoons were the perfect medium in which to deliver simplified marketing messages: to engage, entertain, and educate. We still do. But the market — that great equalizer and The Ultimate Arbiter — seemed to remain unconvinced.
So, BizComics is shifting direction — from the steady diet of blog posts and emails we’ve been producing to books. That’s right. Aside from the fact that we’re excited about making the change, we don’t dare give BizComics up because we’re deathly afraid Thomas Edison was right:
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
So, rather than giving up, we prefer to say we’re standing down from Plan A, at least for now, as we shift to Plan B.
Do Not Go Gentle …
We couldn’t let BizComics go down without a fight anyway. The two entities that partnered to create BizComics — O’Brien Communications Group and Nate Fakes Cartoons — continue to thrive. Their success makes us determined to ignore this sage editorial advice from William Faulkner:
You have to be ready to kill your darlings.
Beyond that, BizComics is too dear to us and to our followers to kill it off. So, we’re sucking it up, manning up, and taking our cue from the defiant stance of Dylan Thomas:
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Okay. We’re not exactly raging. We have no reason to rage. We’ve already achieved two of our three objectives: (1) We had fun. (2) We learned much. And since our third objective was the most modest of the bunch anyway — world domination — we decided we might as well reach for the sky, go for all the marbles, swing for the fences, shoot the works, and [insert your favorite cliché here].
Next Steps
So, while we may be stepping down, in a sense, we’re most certainly not stepping out or away. Like the great and powerful Oz, we’re just going behind the curtain for a while. But we’ll still be pulling levers, spinning wheels, throwing switches, and weaving simple marketing messages from the illusion of complexity. And we’ll be putting those messages in books.
In the meantime, let us know if you need our help. We’ll always be happy to inject some humor into the sober fabric of business.
To paraphrase someone almost as famous as we are, we’ll be back.
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“Wait, hold on, I’m pretty sure that was the title of an old 90s album.”
That “for now” part sounds a bit ominous.
Bold move switching to books when the digital side didn’t stick. Wonder if concrete calculator shows any other business pivots that actually worked.
Glad you guys pivoted to books instead of giving up on the dream, but honestly I still prefer the direct blog posts we’ve been reading. If you’re looking for a deeper dive into this strategy shift, check out margin calculator.
Shifting from blog posts to books is a bold move—hope the next volume has the same punch as the comics. Curious about the details, hit calculate proportion for the full plan.
Totally get the pivot to books, the blog just never felt like enough. Check out track period for the full story.
Calling it standing down from Plan A rather than quitting is a nice way to put it, and the Thomas Edison line about people not realizing how close they were to success fits well. Taking simple marketing messages into books seems like a natural next step for cartoon work. Curious how the first book is shaping up.
Sometimes a change in direction is exactly what a project needs. Moving from comics to books sounds like a solid Plan B, and who knows, it might end up being the thing that gets BizComics the traction it was looking for unblocked cookie clicker games.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books sounds like a thoughtful response to the market’s verdict. Cartoons still seem well suited to engaging and simplifying marketing messages, so I’m curious to see how that idea develops in a longer-form format.
The shift from regular blog posts and emails to books feels like a thoughtful response to the market’s verdict, not a rejection of the core idea. Simplifying marketing messages through cartoons still makes sense, and a book may give BizComics more room to engage, entertain, and educate.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books feels like a thoughtful response to the market rather than a retreat from the original idea. Simplified cartoons still seem well suited to engaging and educating readers, especially in a more substantial format.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books sounds like a thoughtful way to give BizComics’ simplified marketing messages more staying power. It’s encouraging that, even when the market remained unconvinced, you still believe cartoons can engage, entertain, and educate.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books sounds like a thoughtful response to the market’s verdict. I’m curious to see how BizComics’ engage, entertain, and educate approach translates into a longer-form format.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books sounds like a thoughtful response to the market’s verdict. I like that you’re preserving the core belief in cartoons as a way to engage, entertain, and educate while weaving BizComics into a new format.
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The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books feels like a thoughtful response to the market rather than a retreat from the original vision. Simplified cartoons still seem well suited to engaging and educating readers, especially in a more lasting format.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books sounds like a thoughtful response to the market’s verdict. The commitment to using cartoons to engage, entertain, and educate still feels like the right thread to weave forward.
Switching to books feels like a smart pivot given how well your existing platforms are doing, so I’d link to free heic to pdf converter for more on that strategy.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books sounds like a thoughtful response to the market’s verdict. The commitment to using cartoons to engage, entertain, and educate still feels like a strong foundation—just in a more lasting format.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books feels like a thoughtful response to the market rather than a rejection of BizComics’ original mission. Simplifying marketing messages through cartoons still makes sense, and a book format may give those ideas more room to engage, entertain, and educate.
The shift from a steady diet of blog posts and emails to books sounds like a thoughtful response to the market’s verdict. The conviction that cartoons can engage, entertain, and educate is still worth weaving into a longer-form format.