In the spirit of Halloween, I thought I would share some tips for not frightening the crap out of people you admire by employing scary network or link-building techniques. Here is a ghoulish handful that spring to mind: The “I want something” email. So much of networking protocol can be boiled down to high school [...]
I was happy to see the interview video up on the Amanda Across America site late last night from our conversation last week in my backyard about life, work and introducing yourself. I swear, we didn’t choose the cactus as a prop – it lives on our back table as these are the only kind [...]
Like David Letterman and Guy Kawasaki, I am fond of top 10 lists. For awhile now, I have been trying to come up with a top 10 song list for wannabe entrepreneurs. I jot notes in my “little black idea book” whenever I think of one. I don’t have hours and hours to sample music [...]
Of all the overused, hyped-up marketing nouns out there, “expert” has to be near the top of the heap. It is used so often that people have (rightfully so) become very suspect of the word. An interesting thing happens, however, to many perspective entrepreneurs … they feel so frightened about calling themselves an expert that [...]
I have been on the road and interacting with "real live human beings" (no offense, my virtual friends!)more in the last month or so than I have in about 2 years. My first foray out of the desert was my whirlwind trip to New York last month to meet Gloria Steinem, then I went to [...]
I have always been a big fan of great writers, as I was raised in a household of voracious readers. My father is a photojournalist and my mother has always loved to read. My older sister is an editor, and although my brother ended up being a scientist, he toyed with the idea of being [...]
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