For nigh onto a month I’ve been meaning to write a post on women in business. Seeing Sheryl Sandberg (COO Facebook) on Jon Stewart’s show last night provided the final push.
This smart lady who pulls down a nifty $30 million a year has a new book out, “Lean In,” walloping the New York Times best-seller list (#1 in Non-Fiction). (Oh, yes, the photo below is a different kind of leaning, but I thought it would […]
I lied. (Not fair, I know.)
Do you have 29 more minutes?
I know. There aren’t too many hours left in 2012, so you’re choosing how you spend your time wisely.
It’s for a worthy cause.
Don’t you want to know what a great year you had? 
Wouldn’t it be nice to wind up your […]
Those of us who primarily sell services and not things often feel frustrated by the limitations of time. There are only so many hours in the day (and only so many we want to spend on work-related, billable projects).
The difficulty in choosing the right 
price point for […]
I mentioned I’d been in need of a bit of inspiration and nudging as I tackle my big project. (What about you?) Mr. Carnegie (above) seemed to have the right idea: (paraphrasing) Keep at it and don’t leave your boat tethered to […]
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at [fill-in-the-blank]! To be invisible at a client-vendor meeting. To be invisible at your in-laws! To be invisible in Donald Trump’s boardroom! (Oh, wait. We already get to see that one. “You’re fired!”)
One thing’s for sure: We’d all like to get a peek inside our competition’s boardroom (per se) without them knowing we were there, right? We’d […]
With the long weekend looming right ahead, I know lots of folks will be unwinding this weekend. Sipping a glass of wine or a bottle of beer in the backyard, waiting for the burgers or a nice tritip to finish on the grill, many of us get extra enjoyment from the extra day away from office stress.
I am not the only one who’d like to capitalize on all […]
Part Two in a series on the Marketing Equation. Part One, Occupy Marketing, introduced the Marketing Equation.
If you’ve dabbled on the Boards, watched a play, or haunted the comedy houses, you already know the drill: “What’s the most important thing in comedy?”
Timing.
See? It doesn’t work on the written page. The rhythm of reading isn’t related to the rhythm of comic delivery. But you know what […]
They were at it again Friday, rain or shine.
(Why on earth is she sending out her newsletter on Saturday, of all days? I’ll tell you why: Testing! Testing! Testing! Research shows Saturday is a wildly successful day for email marketing. So I say, “Prove it!” I’ll let you know the results.)
As rain pelted the San Francisco Bay Area (for the first time seemingly in months), occupiers were doing their thing […]
Does this happen to you: You begin thinking about your goals for the New Year and start ticking off all the things you didn’t get done this year? (Ugh.) Then you get bummed out since you were sure you’d get all those things implemented in your marketing plan this year. (…Sigh.)
Relax. It’s normal. (But who wants to be normal?!)
We linger over ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda,’ […]
