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Sticking with Newsletters — No Quitting Allowed
September 2nd, 2008 |When you or a kid signs up to play a sport for a season or to take music lessons during the school year, do you quit after a couple of lessons because you’re not good enough? Of course not! Most of us know it takes months (even years) of practice to get better at something. My [...]
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Six Easy Ways to Keep Your Clients Happy
August 26th, 2008 |You’ve probably read or heard many experts say that keeping your clients costs less than obtaining new ones. A Bain and Company study reports that boosting customer loyalty by 5 percent improves your profits by 25 percent at the very least and can go up to 95 percent. You can’t ask for better numbers than [...]
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Links: 2008-08-22
August 22nd, 2008 |42 HTML email design resources: Trying to get a newsletter to look the same in all email clients is a lost cause (more in this post) — but you can at least make them appear decent. Community Mottos and Nicknames. Sure, most of us know Philly is the [...]
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Dealing with Freelancer’s Stress
August 18th, 2008 |I mentioned that my son’s medical program would interfere with my business because it required a big time investment on my part along with other things. Add to that managing the usual stuff like the other kids, work (or lack thereof), household responsibilities, on and on. After two weeks of the program, I reached a breaking [...]
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Links: 2008-08-15
August 15th, 2008 |Is Updated Technology Important to Productive Work? Unless you’re a designer using resource demanding software, a software reviewer (then I recommend installing and using them on a secondary computer instead of your main one), or using a 10-year-old computer — then this sounds like another excuse from a procrastinator. [...]
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Life Lessons from the Olympics
August 11th, 2008 |I love the Olympics and look forward to them especially the summer Olympics. You can always count on the Olympics to bring out every feeling in the book. Sports also teach wonderful life lessons about endurance, perseverance, goodwill, respect, tragedy. Tragedy: Sad to say, we’ve seen tragedy. A suicidal man stabbed and killed the father-in-law of [...]
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Links: 2008-08-08
August 8th, 2008 |W00t! I love 8/8/08. Too bad I couldn’t make anything special happen today. So I’ll have to settle for sharing great links instead! Let the games begin! 21 Online Free Web-Based Applications The Real Problem with PowerPoint 24 Things to do When Stuck for a Topic to [...]
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Book Review: The Perfect Board
August 5th, 2008 |Knowing how to balance a checkbook provides us with an important life skill. A person who can’t balance a checkbook (or these days, reconcile a credit card as few write checks) will struggle to ensure s/he has enough money to pay bills. Not everyone needs to understand how a board works, the process for running board [...]
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Links: 2008-08-02
August 2nd, 2008 |192 Creative, Smart and Clever Advertisements Anagram Genius, Instant Anagram and Instant Rhymes Four Jugs and a Writer’s Tricks I Don’t Care About You (Not me, of course! Loves ya bunches!) Negative Self Talk for Writers: I need to [...]
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The Freelancing Flexibility Advantage
July 30th, 2008 |A previous blog entry discusses Freelance vs. Full Time Writing. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been discovering a big benefit of working as a freelancer. My mom role collided with my freelancer role when my son’s medical challenges erupted. Not to worry — he’s fine. I don’t mind talking about it, but it doesn’t [...]
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