When you return home from an event like the World Domination Summit, you feel full. Full of ideas. Full of inspiration. Full of optimism. And full of bits and pieces you want to digest and cobble together and most importantly, act on while they all still make sense inside your cluttered head. Let’s hit pause […]
It’s nearly that time of year again, when thousands of entrepreneurs, digital thinkers and other creative go-getters descend upon Portland for Chris Guillebeau’s annual World Domination Summit. I’m en route as we speak, excited for an event I’m betting will be even better than last year’s. Many of the attendees at this conference have huge […]
It’s been an exciting week! We had a great webinar with Ryan Ferrier of The 60-Day MBA, who’s offering a freelance edition of his course just for this community. (Signup closes Sunday!) My business, Socialexis, finally has its own site; more details in an upcoming newsletter about why we decided to go that route. And […]
Do you ever open your email in the morning with the intention of spending just an hour or two sifting through messages, and then look up to find you’ve spent your entire day responding to emails? Or maybe you reach the end of the day and wonder, what the heck did I get done today? […]
Hey there! We’ve got lots of goodies for you this week: Suffering from some tough breaks lately? Not to worry; Jon Acuff reminds us that easy lives create boring stories. If you haven’t paid a visit to Jenny Blake’s fabulous new site yet, you’re missing out. Here, she breaks down the 9 steps behind the […]
While half the blogosphere shouts from the rooftops about how we should all “lean in,” plenty of women are going the opposite route, choosing to “opt out” of the workforce. Or, as some stay-at-home moms prefer to call it, “opt into a different kind of career.” How do I know? Because a lot of my […]
Happy Friday! The launch of a new site we’re working on, The Write Life, is just about a month away. Can’t wait! Here are my favorite posts from around the web this week: Your writing is your business. At The Creative Penn, Liz Broomfield lists 10 tips to transitioning to full-time in the job you […]
A lot of you read this blog in Google Reader. That’s the tool I’ve longed used, too, to read my crazy list of blogs and find fodder for clients’ social channels. But Google is about to kill its Reader. (This is one of the first times I’ve been seriously disappointed with Google. If you kill […]
We’ve been busy this week prepping for next week’s webinar on how to grow an engaged email list. You coming? Here are this week’s reads: Great Mixergy interview with Ross Gordon about how a copywriter created a scalable company. Rachelle Gardner addresses how to read more blogs in less time. The short answer: RSS! Don’t […]
Anything worth doing is not easy. Actually, it’s often more than not easy. Sometimes it hurts. Or at least causes discomfort, which a lot of us mistaken for pain. Getting in shape hurts. Running a marathon — even if you’re fit — hurts. But those are both examples of physical pain. And it’s emotional pain […]