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The Best Business Advice I Ever Ignored
We've all done it. Someone gives us some great advice and we listen, consider, and shake it off, and go back to what we were doing before. You've done it — right? When I think about advice I've ignored, I like to justify it by building myself up: I didn't listen...
Best Book Launch Tips: Make It Visual
Your book's content is a treasure you can display in creating interest in and anticipation for your launch. In last week's tip, I encouraged you to create tweets from your book to share — pure content to help people see the value your book contains. Today's tip takes...
To Become Outstanding
Outstanding. Remarkable. Splendid. Awesome. Superb. Great. Amazing. Admirable. Excellent. Wonderful. Superior. Magnificent. Extraordinary. Special. Exceptional. Brilliant. As a new business owner, I'd be beyond thrilled if someone used one of those adjectives to...
Experimenting My Way To Adding More Value
I am happy to announce a new initiative of Weaving Influence, #booklaunchchat. We're going to try our first ever company hosted tweetchat on Monday, January 21 at 8 pm ET in celebration of the launch of Linda Freeman's book, THRIVE! The evening's chat will focus on...
Best Book Launch Tips: Gather Tweetables
One of your greatest tools in creating excitement for, and interest in, your book is the content from the book itself. Although not every sentence of your book is perfected crafted as a tweet, you likely have many sentences, ideas, concepts, and questions within your...
Decision #4: I Will Keep Going
This post begins with a confession: sometimes I think about quitting. Don't worry — I don't think about it in a serious way. I think about it in a wondering way. I wonder what it would be like to drop my kids off at school and come home to a cup of coffee and a novel,...
Decision #3: I Will Give Everything
This is the 3rd post in a series about decisions for my business in 2013. You can read Decision #1 here and Decision #2 here. Of all the book titles I've considered for the book I dream of writing some day, my top two favorites are: Give Everything and Use...
The 1st Blog Post of 2013
If I had set out to write the story of 2012 on January 1st, there is no way I could have anticipated — or even dreamed — of the blessings along the way last year. As I got up early this morning to write, I realize the same is true for this New Year. Although my path...
Reconnecting, Restarting, and Re-entering
Sometime in the afternoon yesterday, I remembered that I planned today, the day after Christmas, as work day. I remembered that I have a client call this morning at 8 am. And I remembered that I haven't blogged in far too long. Even though I love my work, I recoiled....
My Favorite Facebook Gadget
I've been on Facebook since July of 2007, which means I have gone through several changes to their layout, and been part of the crowd who cried, "Not again!" each time something changed. Despite my five years of using Facebook, it was only after I started working with...
Decision #2: I Will Track My Time
This is a decision I came to kicking and screaming. (Ask Angie.) I am not a time-tracking kind of girl. I actually, despite being a "J" on the Myers-Briggs, rebel against many such restraints. I have been in business since January or so, and tried to track my time, in...
Decision #1: I Will Do the Work
Every where I click online, it seems like people are writing year-end wrap-ups and talking about planning for the new year. As we enter December, I am considering: What did I accomplish this year? Where do I want to be next year this time? What has defined my year?...