How do I sign up?
Simple. Click your heels together three times and repeat, 'There's no place like Creative Latitude, there's no place like Creative Latitude', then click on How to join. Piece of cake.

How many people are involved in Creative Latitude?
At the time of this writing we have more than 50 members. Care to be the next one?

If I join up, do I have to do anything?
Well, there was that initiation ritual with the goat and 13 black candles. It got awfully messy though, so we had to discontinue it. We do appreciate our members' involvement and there are a couple of things you can do. We all try to pitch in as needed. We're a pretty democratic group, so if you join you'll receive email updates whenever we put stuff to a vote. We also encourage our members to practice ethical business standards. You can read more about it here.

Beyond this, we do ask that you set up a reciprocal links page on your site and perhaps send out an occasional press release to your local media. The links page is important since it will ultimately help both you and others in the group gain better search engine positioning. We suggest creating a links page and populating it with links to others in the group. It's your choice who to include. Others will then link to your site.

Does joining cost me any dough?
Nope. We're free as free can be. On occasion, you may be asked to send a news release to your local media. If you choose to do so, each member pays for their own postage.

I'm a client type. How do I know if you folks are any good?
'Good' and 'bad' is pretty subjective and Creative Latitude can't make that kind of judgment call. We're not an accreditation organization. For the most part though, if you peruse the listings, we're pretty confident you'll find someone who's just the right fit for your project.

What is the lateral airspeed of the Spine-tailed Swift?
220 mph (You didn't think we'd know, did you?)

As a creative, how will joining Creative Latitude help me?
A. We want it to be good for you too, so here's how Creative Latitude can help you:

1. You get a nifty listing in the Profile section.
2. You get a link to your site.
3. If you choose to participate in the press release campaign, you can add your company name as the local contact. You can also add your company within the content of the release as applicable.
4. If you choose, you can add the Creative Latitude logo to your site. This identifies you as a member of a group that adheres to ethical business standards and comic relief. As time marches on, Creative Latitude will build a greater awareness and you'll reap the rewards of the promotional efforts.

As a client, what's the benefit for me with Creative Latitude?
You need designers, writers, and others to communicate your message. We've got 'em. And, we've got 'em all over the place. Need a designer in SE Asia? No problem. How about a writer in Seattle? Creative Latitude's got you covered.

Creative Latitude provides a nice and tidy kind of one-stop shopping for your creative needs. It's one of the main things that makes us different. You could spend a lot of time going to designer, writer, photographer, etc. Web directories, but isn't your time better spent working on your core responsibilities? When you have a need for creative input, Creative Latitude is your single source solution in a jiffy.

A jiffy, by the way is an actual unit of time. 1/100th of a second. See? We're not only creative, we can amply supply you with trivia.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
We get asked this all the time! What's the big deal here? We checked the thesaurus and there ain't no other word for it. You can try 'catalog', though. It may get you by in a pinch. Similarly, don't ask us for a rhyme for "orange."

What's up with all the misspellings? I thought you guys were pros.
Well, aktually we are pros and thay ain't no misspeklings. Creative Latitude, being the global force that it is, has authors on a few continents. Although the site is written in English, some writing may have a different flavour... er, flavor... of English. We do try to look up everything in our handy English-to-English dictionary, though. None the less, you may run across "color" or "colour." Or perhaps you've seen "organisation" and "organization." Pay it no mind and rest in the fact that you're part of the global village.

You folks are great! How do you come up with all this stunning work?
Ah! Glad you asked. In a word, "sleep deprivation." Wait, that's two words. You get the idea, though. You can do it too! All you need to do is drink lots and lots of coffee, while alternately downing several cans of Mountain Dew®. That'll keep you awake for days. Pretty soon you'll start having the neatest hallucinations. If you're lucky you'll start having conversations with Leonardo DaVinci. He'll give you all sorts of great advice.

Or, he may just ask where he can get a decent cappuccino in the spirit world.