Glad you asked! This post could take any number of directions, but since we’re writing about web content, blah blah blah blah. Lost you, didn’t I? I know! It was going in a very boring direction. Who needs boredom? But my purpose was to illustrate that boredom is not what your site visitors are looking [...]
April 22, 2010 – 11:06 am
I sat in on a webinar presented by PRWeb, a huge online news release service. PRWeb thinks news releases are a great way to build web traffic for every business, and they have all kinds of data to prove it. Today, however, I’m just going to impart some of the great ideas PRWeb generously shared about [...]
This morning I dropped in on a marketing communications webinar—you know, an online seminar. I sure do appreciate the technology that makes webinars possible, and the knowledgeable speakers who impart their expertise to an audience that might be taking notes and sipping coffee while wearing slippers and pajamas (penguins, in my case) instead of business [...]
January 6, 2010 – 5:07 pm
Geraldine Brooks is a prolific and successful novelist. Her background as a journalist is apparent in her meticulous research, historical context and accuracy. Add to that well-developed and interesting characters and you have a fulfilling read. Brooks’s 2006 novel, March, is a retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, from the father character’s point of [...]
I may have a slight addiction to writing books. Not writing books, but writing books. Like Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, and Arthur Plotnik’s Spunk & Bite: A Writer’s Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style. I have Stephen King’s On Writing, Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write and Elizabeth George’s Write Away. Natalie Goldberg’s contribution is Writing Down the Bones, and Julia [...]
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February 26, 2009 – 12:59 pm
I used to own a sign and graphics business. We had six employees who were more like family than staff, a large and loyal customer base, and we made decent money. Anyone would call it a success. We did. But we were talking about business, not life. And the business was a success. My life [...]
