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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars…”
Yes, I’m a bit of a Shakespeare nerd. I can quote long passages from several of the plays and a couple of the sonnets, and will bore my friends and family with them with the slightest provocation....
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Do We Rely Too Much On the Internet?
Today, for several minutes, Amazon.com went down. There was a generic error message when you tried to access any of their pages. Although I do a lot of shopping on Amazon, it wasn’t quite the end of...
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Web Business – Do You Bathe Every Day?
What motivates you? Do you work to pay the bills? Do you work to give your family a good life? To be able to make a difference on the planet? Do you work to be able to set you own hours or to have more...
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Make Fear Your Friend
Yesterday, I talked about motivation (and bathing, for those keeping track). In the comments, Barb mentioned that she is often motivated by fear and I thought I’d take a look at that. When most people...
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Web Business – Another Live Event
On Thursday of last week, I got in my car and drove to Las Vegas, a five hour drive from my home in Los Angeles, to attend Connie Ragen Green‘s Weekend Marketer Live workshop. The idea of the workshop...
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I just got off the phone with a client who is very good at getting her people to really hone in on what they do so she can help them promote and market their business. Her issue, though, is a common...
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Web Tech – Facebook Profiles, Pages or Groups
As a business person, sometimes our options can be more confusing than helpful. With the different ways you can use Facebook in your business, this can be particularly true. Many people wonder if it’s...
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Web Tech – A New Productivity Tool
I tend to be scattered. My brain loves the “creative” process of jumping from one idea to the next, and I get easily distracted by an idea that seems to want to be explored NOW! I also tend to think in...
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Web Business – Traveling for Fun and Profit
One of the things I have done since as far back as 2005 is to attend live marketing events. The first one I ever went to was put on by Randy Cassingham, who has run one of the Internet’s oldest...
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Web Business – Attending Live Marketing Events
In the last two months, I’ve been to two live events. Both have been wonderful, and both quite different from each other. The first was Dennis Becker’s Earn 1K a Day live event in Las Vegas. I’d never...
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Creativity and Business – Taking Time Off FOR Your Business
I recently read a blog post by Connie Ragen Green called “Getting Started Online – The 36 Hour Getaway Strategy” where she talks about taking a personal weekend retreat at least every quarter to...
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78 Ladies and One Guy – An Exercise in Marketing
Last weekend, my friend Connie asked me if I wanted to go to a movie. Of course I said yes. I love movies. I’ll see almost anything. Yes, I do have standards. I prefer no slicing and dicing of humans...
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Creating a Business
Creating Your Audience - Creating Your Business There are three areas you need to focus on when you are creating a business online. Actually, this is true online and off, but we’ll stick with online...
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Time Management
Time Management Why am I talking about time management on a blog about creativity and business? For an entrepreneur, managing their time is almost the same thing as managing their business. For the...
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Creative Copywriting
Creative Copywriting - Daydream (Photo credit: kudumomo) We often separate out any creative writing with any business writing, but they are (or should be) married to each other. When you are writing a...
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Creative Thinking Exercise – Focus of Attention
Creativity in Business - Focus of Attention When bringing creativity to our business, we are often confronted with wildly divergent things we could focus on. Having too many options can be a good...
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Creativity in Business – Experiencing Life
Creativity in Business – Experience Life (Photo Credit: Dougtone) Sometimes a writer will find he has spent so many hours sitting down pursuing his craft that he forgets there’s a world outside the...
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Web Business – Change is Good
change is good (Photo credit: shannonkringen) Often times, life gives us opportunities to make changes in our lives that will create huge ripples in what we do. Often times, we don’t see those...
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Don’t Fear the Tech
surrender your fear (Photo credit: HikingArtist.com) One of the main things that keep people from getting started with an online business is the thought of all the technology that it looks like you...
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Web Business – Stay Calm? How?
Several weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about experiencing gratitude. The ramifications of that are still spreading out throughout my life. Here’s a great example. The other day, I had an issue with my...
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Web Business – What the Customer Wants
Keep the Customer Satisfied (Photo credit: Courtesy Chevrolet) You may have noticed, in the last several posts, a change in focus in what I’m writing about. Don’t worry, the pod people haven’t taken...
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Web Business: Guy Kawasaki, Tim Ferriss and… Tucker Max?
This weekend, I was at Ryan Deiss and Perry Belcher’s Traffic and Conversion summit in San Francisco. The material was great and I have a whole new level of respect for Mr. Deiss and Mr. Belcher. On...
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Web Business: An Exercise in Frustration
I had a doctor’s appointment today. It was the preliminary consultation for a test they’ve been trying to schedule for some time. Nothing serious, one of those tests that every gentleman of a certain...
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Web Tech – What are Analytics?
A business needs to make money. It’s mostly what a business is for. For a business in a building, the amount of people who come through the door can often determine how much money it makes. Knowing how...
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Web Business: The Vision Thing – Why Visualize
The last several days I have been running an experiment. When you hear what I’ve been doing, you may think it is sort of “woo-woo”, Law of Attraction stuff, trying to “visualize” my ideal future. Yes,...
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Web Business – Changes Afoot
In the next few days, you will start to see some changes on this blog. I wanted to give a head’s up about them before I started making them, though, to explain why I’m doing it. My blog has always been...
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Web Business – Where Did the Time Go?
I’ve seen so many people say they wanted to start an online business, then do nothing. I’ve seen people start one, but it just sits there. I’ve known people who said they were online marketers who...
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Web Business – Creative Leadership?
I was recently sent a link to an article from the Harvard Business Review that I found fascinating. The article talks about how businesses of today, especially established corporations, should start...
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Web Business – Lessons from Downton Abby
Like many people, I have become rather addicted to the British soap opera Downton Abby. For those not in the know, it takes place just before, during and after World War I, and deals with the change...
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Energy Levels and Business
It’s a fact of life. We have varying degrees of energy at different times. Some call it “biorhythms” and some just call it the ups and downs of existence. Your business is what keeps you housed, fed,...
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