Ali Luke

Play to Your Strengths

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ali Luke. If you run your own business, you probably spend a fair amount of time looking at what others in your field are doing. What services do they list on their website? What do they tweet about? Do they write blog posts, or produce a podcast? [...]

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Flee or Grab: How Do You React to New Technology?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ali Luke. Think back twelve years: 1999, the end of the last century. What did your life look like then? I’m guessing it was pretty different from your life today. In 1999, I was fourteen. We’d had dial-up internet at home for a year or so, a [...]

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Why You Want to Give (and Receive) Brutally Honest Advice

Editor’s Note: This a  joint blog post by Vlad Dolezal and Ali Luke. “Does my butt look big in this?” You rely on your friends for honest advice. Sometimes brutally honest.  You might be willing to show a close friend (or a coach, or a partner) something which is very much a work-in-progress — something which [...]

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Expertise Trumps Experience

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Luke from Aliventures. You won’t find a single blogger with twenty years’ experience. You’d struggle to find anyone with ten. The same goes for a huge number of roles: social media whizzes, SEO experts, YouTube stars… The old rules are disappearing. When I was a teenager, [...]

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Getting Out of Urgency Mode and Having To Think Again

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Luke. For the whole summer, I was operating in urgency mode. Cleaning out our flat and moving house, a trip to India, finishing a 20,000 word portfolio for my MA, our church’s kids’ Holiday Club, getting married … one thing followed the next without much space [...]

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Do You Know How Much Your Dreams Will Cost You?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Luke. Have you ever dismissed a dream out of hand because you knew it was going to cost too much? I’ve just finished a Masters degree in Creative Writing. My college offers a PhD program – which I didn’t even bother looking into. Sure, I love [...]

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When To Ignore Good Advice

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ali Hale. Good advice can ruin your project, your relationships, and even your life. Just think of the times when you tried a piece of advice which actually made things worse. Perhaps you followed some financial guru’s recommendation, only to lose money and end up even more [...]

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Harnessing the Power of Endings

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. As well as writing blog posts and the occasional ebook, I write fiction. And one of the things I struggle with most is endings. You’ve read novels and watched TV series and seen movies, so you’ll understand why. A great ending sticks with [...]

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Ebooks: Overpriced or Underrated?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. Maybe you buy ebooks. Maybe you sell them. Maybe your Twitter stream and RSS reader have been full of launch after launch. I’d bet that, at some point (perhaps years ago, when you first bought an ebook), you’ve asked yourself how can a [...]

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