Hiring a consultant for advice on even a small task can have big long-term benefits.
Interrupt Boldly with Your Pop Up and Get to the Point
Pop-ups are annoying, except when they aren’t. Balance these two truths whenever you put some interstitial pop-ups on your site.
Scrivener to Marked 2 to WordPress
One year later, a follow up review of how I use Scrivener, Marked 2, and Markdown to publish on WordPress.
Help Wanted Signs as a Measure of Quality
I knew that this McDonald’s experience was going to be different than what I experienced near my house from the Help Wanted sign.
My Writing Setup for Thousands of Words Per Day
It’s the end of the year and the start of a new one, so I’m looking over how I’ve been doing things and thinking about changing it all. In case it helps anyone else, here is how I setup my writing to write about 1,500-2,500 words every weekday of this past year. That is probably […]
Retailers Taking Gift Cards – Pay Attention!
When a retailer sells a giftcard, the opportunity to reach out to loyal or new customers falls right in their lap.
Seth Godin Quote from GLS 2011
You’re not going to make it by doing what your boss told you to do, if you would, she would have done it herself! We teach you to wait to get picked. Don’t. Pick yourself! This is, of course, from around the time Linchpin was coming out. It sounds like Linchpin. It also reveals why […]
Different like all of my friends
Even when we adopt the behavior of an outlier, when we do something the crowd doesn’t often do, we’re still aligning ourselves with the behavior of outliers. – Seth Godin, People Like Us eBook. Being different happens, but we can’t be too arrogant about it.
Zero sum cleanup game
If a window cleaner spits on the street, has he made any progress?