Writing

How to Deal With Copycats and Idea Thieves

One of our Lift Off alums recently asked how to deal with copycats and idea thieves. She’s been rocking it, getting great press, and things are taking off for her – and, as it always happens, copycats and idea thieves have started showing up and taking her work and phrases as their own. One of [...]

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Do Your Thing To Rock Your Brand

I was talking to a client last week and heard myself say the very words I needed to hear and apply. It’s amazing how the people you’re meant to help often provide you ways to see and help yourself, too. She’s been trying so hard to control what her brand is that she’s been struggling [...]

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On Blogs Being Dead

Blogs aren’t dead, but the way in which they sit in the web of content is different than it was a mere year ago. The new technological options are just that, and it’s our use of them that we need to be more aware of.

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We’re Crazy About Books and Confused About eBooks

We’re crazy about books and confused about ebooks. Last December, I spent a few days at BizBookLab with Todd Sattersten and a great hodgepodge of editors, authors, publishers, and business advisors who were all business book lovers in one stripe of the other. I know, not only are we book lovers, but business book lovers [...]

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Check Out My First Inc. article

I’m happy and proud to share that my first article on Inc ran yesterday morning. It’s called The ABCs of Pricing and it hit the front page this morning. This was one of those projects I’ve been working on in the background that I couldn’t share until it was live. I’ll be contributing at least one [...]

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My first book: “Fix The Plane While You’re Flying It”

I’ve finally made my mind up on what I want my first book to be. To be honest, I hadn’t even considered this particular topic because it’s so native to me. The tentative title for the book is “Fix The Plane While You’re Flying It: How To Handle Your Business After You’re In It.” I’ve been [...]

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Why I Leave Comments Open

Should you allow comments on your blog? I get asked this question a few times a month, but most recently, Kelly Livesay asked it via Twitter and wrote about blog commenting and your community. Every once in a while some influential blogger closes the comments on her blog and it causes a stir, and this [...]

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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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You Won’t See Your Big Hit Ahead of Time

If you listen to the stories artists tell about their careers, you’ll often hear them admit that their hits were something they never saw coming. This cuts across artistic endeavors. I tweeted yesterday that How To Flourish: 17 Quotes on Living, Being, and Doing was going viral yet again with near 10k daily pageviews. That [...]

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