Monthly Archives: June, 2010
BAKING YOUR BUSINESS UP RIGHT.
My Dad, the quiet one, discovered baking at age 55. He enjoys cutting dessert recipes from the newspaper and making them from scratch. He’s happy to whip up a cheesecake or a pie for the church function, the family lunch, or next week’s get-together. My Mom and I noticed that his baked goods were always [...]
THE DOG IN THE BED
Hermione sleeps in my bed. This is, at times, incredibly comforting. Mostly, though, there are twelve pounds of dog snuggled as close as humanly possible to either myself or my husband at all hours of the night. And when she’s snuggled next to one, she’s kicking the other. No bed is big enough for this [...]
CREATING THE FIVE-HOUR WORK WEEK
So, I vowed to do a five-hours-per-day work week this week. First, I banked my allotted Monday and Tuesday to create a 10-hour work day on Monday. I’m working on a personal project that requires visiting where I grew up on Tuesday and Wednesday. That project probably won’t see the light of day, but push [...]
SETH GODIN HAS A POINT.
I was reading Seth’s blog for the first time in many moons. And this? This must be done. “What would happen if you were prohibited from working more than five hours a day. What would you do? How would you use those five hours to become indispensable in a different way?” First, I had to [...]
THE PART WHERE MY DAD BOYCOTTS MASHED POTATOES
My Dad is a quiet man. My longest phone conversation with him lasted 7 minutes, and I regularly chat with strangers for up to two hours at a clip. While growing up, Mom did the cooking. Dad rode his epic lawnmower around the yard: headlights on, engines firing, guttural race car noises barely audible [...]
SALES & PRICING REMIX LAUNCHES
While trying to find one of my articles about pricing, I realized that there’s no easy, pretty and printable way to read closely-related blog articles. This made me sad. (Not like, drink-some-Windex-my-life-is-over-sad. Just ugh-people-are-missing-out sad.) And so… The Sales and Pricing Remix contains my favorite Brand Camp blog posts about establishing pricing, tweaking pricing, gaining [...]
ABOUT THOSE FREE OPPORTUNITIES
Just substitute ‘photographer’ for ‘writer.’ If you have a very specific reason for wanting to do free work, great! If it’s being solicited by others who should be paying you, not so great. I nearly peed my pants laughing at this. Many thanks to Jonathan Canlas for putting this video in front of my face.
DOMINATRIXED: POSSIBILITY PARALYSIS
This is a dominatrixed post and assignment. Click here if you missed the first one, you spiffy soul, you. Today, we talk possibilities. Like, you need to get breakfast for the kids while editing client photos while shopping for shoes online while watching the latest health report about the breakfast you’ve just finished feeding your [...]
