You check your inbox and in it is the type of email from a client that makes your blood boil. The kind of email that makes you read it over five times while you huff and puff and think, “Oh hell, no. This is NOT happening.” It happens to all of us at some point […]
I’m willing to bet you’ve heard the saying “facts tell, stories sell” and there’s no disputing the power of stories. Every one of us loves a good story, and our brains are conditioned to recognize stories as a pattern. We use stories all day long to help communicate concepts and share ideas. When it […]
When you’re busy working in your business, it’s hard to figure out when to fit in things that require time and energy like creating blog content. Sometimes blog content ends up being something you whip out the day before you’re set to publish…and other times you can find that you’ve not blogged for weeks (or […]
When I first started blogging way back in the day, I was seriously deluded. I didn’t know a lot of people who were blogging, but I did know that people made money from their blogs. I had literally just started my papercrafting business, teaching classes and selling my favorite products, and I thought “hey, what […]
I still remember the first time I heard the word “blog” and took it seriously. The year was 2003 and I was sitting at my desk at my PR agency job and was researching media. While blogs had been around for a while, they had been the domain of nerdy dudes in their parents’ basement […]