Category: General

From Oprah’s site after a woman decides to dump her cancer treatment: “The medical community, as we know, have been able to perform what some people call miracles,” Oprah says. “And while you’re taking advantage of that, think as positively [as you can]. Think about attracting healing to yourself, think about the goodness that the […]

SFB referred to me as natty. I thought that was bad. It isn’t: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/natty nat·ty (nÄ?t’Ä“) adj. nat·ti·er, nat·ti·est Neat, trim, and smart; dapper. I think I was concatenating Natalie from Facts of Life with the word nappy (as in old sweater all nappy and you have to use a safety razor to remove all […]

Last night in our book writing class I realized that a great ‘prompt’ for writing – and blogging as well – is to start a paragraph with: If I were you… or I really wish you knew…

This is the second part of my piece on the marketing efforts behind the recent Nine Inch Nails release, Year Zero. Here is part one. In part one we talked about making your work or products or intellectual property or services available to your rabid fans for them to modify, extend and remix. Now I […]

Super-chicas Andrea and Suzanne (or AJL and SFB as I like to call them) are conducting a call on Friday: How to lose the sense of ‘drudgery’ you can get from your heart-based work How to earn twice the money in half the time How to assess your To Do list from an ‘unwork’ perspective […]

There are some really crazy people in this world. And sometimes I think they all have my email address. A crucial part of your business’s success is to be very clear about who you let into your playground. ‘Anybody with money’ is not your ideal client. You need a freakfilter. Port calls it a Red […]

Raj has a nice meaty post: With millions of websites/weblogs, aren’t strong personalities required to win out? Name a few A-list bloggers that do not have “strong” (i.e., self-promoting) personalities. Okay, maybe Darren Rowse and Steve Pavlina. These two earn most of their income from revenue-producing websites (or just one in Steve’s case). The others […]

This makes me want to throw up. Data loss makes me queasy. And one fine day, sorry night, (April 23 to be precise) the magazine’s editorial system crashed, nullifying the work done for the June issue. The backup server failed to back up. Luckily for them copy-edited text of the lost issue has been mailed […]