The third issue of the XYZ Quarterly for 2019 is here, and with it comes the third installment in our “How To Get Online” series: Grow Your Audience. Last quarter you learned how to build your brand, and this quarter we’re helping you to deliver your brand to your potential customers, fans, and members.
Q3 of the XYZ Quarterly is filled with tips and tricks to help you attract a loyal following. Learn six key ways to build brand awareness within your community, and meet the .xyz community members who are expertly connecting with their audience. Also, get a first look at who’s killing it with .Monster and thriving on .Baby.
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KimmyWalters.xyz – eNom / Open SRS customer (United States)
Poetry has been an important form of self-expression for as long as the written word has been around. Classic writers may be the first poets that come to mind – Shakespeare, Dickinson, Whitman – but the internet has given a voice to a whole new wave of modern-day poets with an entirely fresh perspective, including the woman behind this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, KimmyWalters.xyz.
KimmyWalters.xyz is the online portfolio of San Diego-based writer Kimmy Walters. Described as “one of poetry’s brightest young things” by Dazed Magazine, Kimmy has already had two books of poetry published, Uptalk and Killer, before turning 30. You can also find her poems in a number of publications, including Peach Magazine, the New York Tyrant, and Queen Mob’s Tea House.
Kimmy first rose to literary Internet fame in a somewhat peculiar way. She amassed over 20,000 followers on Twitter after turning the senseless posts from a widely followed novelty account, @Horse_ebooks, into surprisingly profound poetry. As a Twitter account for Horse-Ebooks.com, @Horse_ebooks tweeted random phrases from the books and became widely known for its unintentionally amusing updates. Kimmy combed through the more than 16,000 nonsensical tweets to create poems that resembled her writing style. Since then, she’s been the mastermind behind viral tweets like this victorian therapy horse Buzzfeed dubbed “creepily accurate” and the in-flight dodecahedron that caused an internet uproar.
Published in 2015 by independent publisher Bottlecap Press, Kimmy wrote her first poetry collection Uptalk while she studied Linguistics in college. The title of the book refers to the rising inflection in which each clause or sentence ends like a question, a speech trend that is most commonly used by women. The science of language and its constant evolution heavily influenced the 68-page book, as Kimmy explores speech and feminism. Celebrated novelist Sheila Heti described Uptalk as “charming, inviting, beguiling and delightful poems in the language of someone who seems alive speaking refreshing riddles to herself.”
Experience the darker side of Kimmy’s work with her second poetry collection, Killer. Published in 2016, the book is influenced by an interest in modern mysteries, forensic science, and the years she spent in rural Missouri. Goodreads says the poems “seem to consider the world with a deep curiosity and a tinge of suspicion.” In one poem from the book, also entitled Killer, Kimmy finds the word “killer” carved into her closet and wonders if a murderer had previously lived in her residence, but decides that the 100-degree Missouri heat makes it too hot for her to care.
Go to KimmyWalters.xyz to explore her poetry and find links to purchase her books. You can follow Kimmy’s popular Twitter account, @ka_waltz, for almost daily doses of her unique humor. Do you need a place to showcase your work and achievements? Head to gen.xyz to register your .xyz domain name today!
Uni.xyz – Name.com customer (India)
We’ve all been there, you’re working on a task that seems insurmountable or trying to crack a puzzle blocking your latest project and can’t find a solution. While some things seem impossible, collaboration and teamwork could be the secrets to solving any challenge no matter how great. Applying that same logic to an industry can bring truly revolutionary change, as this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, Uni.xyz, will show you.
Uni.xyz is a community created for designers, by designers, that allows its members to showcase their skills, find clients, and take on exciting design challenges together. The idea for Uni.xyz came from two design industry challenges that the UNI founders noticed. On the one hand, many talented design artists struggle to find opportunities to feature their work in front of a large audience, which in turn impacts their ability to find steady projects. On the flip side, clients looking for design work have difficulty finding the right designer for their needs.
The network Uni.xyz have fostered brings these two camps together, bridging the gap between supply and demand while establishing a progressive community for designers to express their passion and pursue their design dreams. The main method Uni.xyz uses to bring designers and clients together is with their design challenges. These competitions pit designers up against grand-scale creative challenges like proposing interactive performance venues, re-designing prisons to maximize rehabilitation, and inventing machine-human solutions to prepare for reaching the singularity.
Competitions are open to all members of the Uni.xyz community, and entries are judged by panels comprised of design experts and industry leaders. The competitions not only give designers a chance to propose their work to potential clients and mentors but also allow them to collaborate with other professionals to solve challenges as a team and share ideas. Clients benefit as well, as they are able to host design challenges and get a first-hand look at highly talented individuals and teams ready to take on new work.
“Our ultimate goal at UNI is to make good design accessible to all. Good designers need clients and the world needs good design. However, the process of designing currently comes with many strings attached. Designers have to depend on multiple tools for integral aspects of their work, like collaborating, raising their skills, finding inspiration, communicating, showcasing work and finding clients. We believe that there’s a need to reimagine the tools available to designers. At Uni.xyz we target to provide a solution to those issues, thus allowing designers to spend more time and energy on what they do best – design.
XYZ for us symbolizes three generations of users ranging from traditional Gen X to contemporary Gen Z. We at UNI believe that we aren’t another corporate ‘company’ or ‘organization’. We are a platform for design enthusiasts globally and across all generations. Thus, the domain ‘.xyz’ resonated well with our self-reflection to create something for the ever-growing community of Gen X, Gen Y & Gen Z designers.”
– Uni.xyz team
Never backing down from a challenge, no matter how great it may seem, is one of the core values that .xyz and it’s millions of adopters share. We believe no goal is too great to be accomplished, whether it be to create affordable housing for the next generation of entrepreneurs or to become the most popular domain extension in the world. Are you ready to take on your next challenge? Then register your own .xyz domain and get the tool you need to amplify your voice while joining the community of users who make the impossible look easy.
OkInvent.xyz – Network Solutions customer (India)
The path to being a successful entrepreneur requires much more than having a great idea. You may have a genius business model and truly innovative product, but if you don’t have the network-building skills and fundraising know-how to secure backers for your startup, you may never get the chance to introduce that idea to the world.
Our mission for .xyz is to provide a platform for rising innovators and makers to build that essential community behind their businesses. That’s why we are proud to have recently started sponsoring this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, OkInvent.xyz, who has created an educational program that could teach you what it takes to establish your global network of collaborators and make your startup dreams come true.
Founded by a team from diverse work backgrounds, OkInvent.xyz is a month-long entrepreneurial program that gathers 25 driven individuals and places them on five startup teams. Participating entrepreneurs present their startup ideas at the start of the journey, then form teams and work together through the steps of the program. Once the program is complete, each team creates and pitches a business plan in front of a curated panel of investors.
In the many steps throughout this journey, participants work their way through the key moments in any startup’s life cycle, including analyzing the market to determine product viability, outlining a target market and goal position within it, and mapping a plan for growth and expansion. The teams’ core task of creating a viable startup idea is supplemented throughout the program with hands-on workshops on founding a company and how to set your business up for success, as well as advice from expert coaches and business advisors that help guide the teams and share knowledge.
OkInvent.xyz’s program is unique in that it takes a complete approach to teaching entrepreneurial success, and that includes personal health and well being. Regular fitness, yoga, and meditation sessions are built-in so that participants stay sharp mentally and offer their best work. The program also includes great team building activities, like an outdoor adventure and tribe nights that help the team mesh on a professional and personal level.
Everything in OkInvent.xyz’s program is set up to help the participants build strong networks, learn the hustle required for success, and improve their knowledge and personal well being, so that when those entrepreneurs bet on themselves and their ideas they can end up with a winning hand.
Entrepreneurship is a dream for many, and OkInvent.xyz’s program is a fantastic way to pursue that dream while gaining the knowledge and network contacts needed for success. We feel a shared mission between .xyz and OkInvent.xyz. Just as .xyz has created a global community of innovators and makers that are pushing the Internet forward, OkInvent.xyz is molding tomorrow’s leaders and giving them a head start on the path to success. That’s why we are proud to be sponsors of the OkInvent.xyz program, and participants will now receive .xyz domains on which they can brand their startups and broadcast their message to the world.
Get entrepreneurship tips on OkInvent.xyz’s blog, see their detailed breakdown of what the program entails, or apply to be a part of OkInvent’s program yourself.
