A friend of mine just told me about this wildly useful exercise she did in couples therapy: They sat facing each other and closed their eyes (which signified 'me' time). Whenever each of them felt…
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Trees Instead, founded and run by Daniel Diaz (Civil Engineer) & Pablo G. Martinez (business grad), is a fantastic business that's doing good in the world, one tree at a time, by planting trees as…
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While I'm interested in a pretty wide range of things in this world, there are plenty of things that I'm profoundly not into. GI Joe & Barbie, Velveeta, heavy metal, comic books, hunting, skydiving, fruit…
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I'm so pleased to offer up a dear friend and colleague to you all today. Bonnie Marcus, Women's Business Coach Extraordinaire, is taking the healm with this fantastic guest post. As we're faced with a…
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Lettuce? A crayon? Shrek? No - digital magazines. Zinio a digital magazine company has created the Read Green Initiative to help us all make the transition to saving paper a little bit easier - one…
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I went to high school with one of my brothers, Steve, who is just two years older than me. Here's a classic scenario from those good old days at Clayton High: I'm standing at my…
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Decidedly no. Twitter is not a chatroom. You all know that I'm a huge fan of Twitter (I talk about it enough, right?) So, today, I'm going to let some of my Twitter-colleagues tell you…
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1. Because your competitors will. The knee jerk reaction to the recession is to cut advertising. The classic example from the Great Depression is Ford and Chevrolet. Ford was outselling Chevrolet considerably at the outset…
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When I’m working with a client to start a blog and/or use social media to grow their business, I’m always asked for the ROI (return on investment) because most people love the security of ‘if…
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I live in the middle of a vast huckleberry forest. Very much like blueberries, huckleberries grow on small bushes, wildly...and last summer, like wildfire. Their fruit is a deep, almost black, purple - the berries…
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