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Vacation and the Business Owner
My original plan for this blog was an attempt at something useful that would convince entrepreneurs that they really do need vacations in their life. That went nowhere quickly. I’m not sure I could say anything that hasn’t been said in a way that could be any more compelling. So, for fun, I went to…
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Why do Businesses Blog?
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Free from Fiction
After three years, I guess you can say I have a new tradition: Logistics Nazi for Mary Knipple, Organizer of the Independent Editors at the San Francisco Writers Conference. TANGENT: “Logistics Nazi” is a term I came up with over a decade ago to describe my uptight coordination of something like six people to meet…
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Don’t Let Your Subconscious Hit You on Its Way Out
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What is Journalism?
As you may have heard, I’m writing a book. One of the writers that agreed to contribute said that his specialty was journalism – the problem is that he didn’t answer my questions with information I would think of as being from a journalist. So, I thought maybe I wasn’t defining the word properly. So,…
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Get Inspired, Damn It!
That’s helpful, isn’t it? Writing for other people has a decent amount of inspiration built in – they provide the topic, I write about it. While some of those topics are harder (more boring) than others, at least I know what I’m writing about. And, for me, the topic is the hardest part. The quality…
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Am I Shouting? (Balancing Marketing and Annoying)
My business coach said something recently that put my brain in a bit of a bind. She said that we need to educate people about our businesses without shouting about our businesses. The problem is that, in this case, people’s definition of shouting tends to vary. For me, shouting includes: Someone I’ve never met handing…
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Nail Down Your Message! (Mixed Messages Kill Your Brand)
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Victory Lap
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It Takes More than Just Words – What’s Really Involved when Writing
