Knowledgework

Do You Want To Create an eCourse That Works?

Have you ever been part of an eCourse that, well, stunk? Maybe it didn’t deliver on its promises, or perhaps overwhelmed you by sending you way too much too quickly or too little to keep you moving. I know I have. I’ve been helping people make eCourses for a while now and use some of [...]

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How To Be Creative And Productive In Every Stage Of A Project

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub Every project is also a change on some level. The phenomenon of change within individuals and bigger systems has been studied widely and it’s been found that change isn’t as chaotic and random as it often feels. There [...]

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Review: The Sticky Ebook Formula

Regardless of what kind of online business model you have, at some point, you will want to consider writing an ebook. They can be a great way to increase your profitability and your ability to get your goodness out there in the world. What keeps many people from writing an ebook, though, is that they’re [...]

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We Build The Web

We build the web. That’s what the people who create, share, and curate the web live by that others don’t. It’s not something “out there” that you Google. It’s not a passive repository of information that you access when you want to know something. It’s the product of the collective effort of many (formerly) unrelated [...]

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The 5As of Actualization

First we make our habits, then our habits make us. – Charles C. Noble One of the most effective ways to actualize your own potential and goals is to form habits and routines that make the actualization (almost) automatic. We see reflections of this observation in the works of Aristotle and Lao Tzu from millennia [...]

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The Business Lifecycle: An Overview

What business stage are you in? And, more importantly, what business stage are your customers and clients in? I’ve been working on this model for a while now in the Forge and out in the field with my clients and friends, but it’s time to share it with you. If you’ve read Martha Beck’s Finding [...]

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Ebooks Are Apples, Books Are Oranges

This is a follow-up to Ali’s Ebooks: Overpriced or Underrated. I’ve been meaning to write this for a while and her post catalyzed that intention into action. Many people make blanket comparisons between the price and value of books to ebooks. Usually, ebooks lose in the comparison because books are longer, cheaper, and written by recognized [...]

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The Unconventional Guide To Freelancing Is Available

I’m excited to announce that the Unconventional Guide to Freelancing is now available. While it’s hard to say that it’s my best work yet, it’s probably the most comprehensive product I’ve been involved with yet. When we were developing this product, we wanted to stay focused on three things: Creating a product that would meet [...]

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Your Creativity Zoom Lens

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. When you’re working on a project, you can have a big picture overview, or you can home right in on details. On Day One, you’re zoomed out: with a high-level idea – perhaps a fuzzy one – of what you want to accomplish. [...]

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