Category Archives: Business

I am a love machine

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Really, I am. I thrive on love in all forms. Online love. Offline love. Love for my work, love for other people’s work. Love is my favorite.
I think we’re all little walking love machines. It would be cool if we had glowy hearts on our chests that we could push to disseminate and receive the [...]

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The year of the breakdowns

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

I think I’m going to call this the year of the breakdowns. I feel like this has been a recurring theme in my life and in my writing lately — breaking down. And it’s embarrassing, really. But I have to write about it. Because I can’t write “Top 10 Ways to Fix Your Blog Posts” [...]

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Listening for the hurt

Friday, March 19, 2010

Whenever I launch a new product or service, there are bunches of people emailing me about why they are so excited, they love it, and it’s perfect for them. But then there’s also bunches of people emailing me about why it’s not what they need, but man something in their biz sucks right now, and [...]

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Crawling out of the flaming river of death

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Note: Today’s post is a bit out of the ordinary for me, but it’s what came out of a terrible, head-pounding day. We’ll get back to our regularly scheduled strategy-talk on Thursday.
Today was awful. I can actually say it was the worst day in the history of my entrepreneurial career. One of those days where [...]

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Five principles of web strategy I’ll still be harping about when I’m 92

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

I love old people. There’s a lot of freedom that comes with the experience of living for a long, long time. It’s fascinating how time changes us.
Web design is notorious for changing every 5 minutes. But there are some principles of effective web strategy that I’m still going to be rallying around when I’m 92 [...]

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