10 Tips for Better Enewsletters

Jeff from Constant Contact gave a presentation last week.  I was pretty sure I knew all about email marketing, I’ve been doing it quite awhile now. Goes to show you that you can teach an old dog new tricks!   Take notes friends, here’s a few things you may not know. 1. SENDER Is your…

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Kickstarter, Grenades and WTF

Kickstarter is this site where inventors can raise money to back their projects.  It’s a real grassroots kind of thing, and those of us in small towns are very familiar with grass roots fundraising.  People will give if it’s a worthwhile project.  Lots of things get done when local, small town people put their mind…

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Ackley Chamber of Commerce

I’ve been asked to keynote at the Ackley, Iowa Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner this evening.  This is exciting and an honor for me.  I went to school at Ackley-Geneva and I know many of the people who are in business there.  It’s been said that local people are not often asked to speak in…

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Sunday Funday

We have an ice storm going on right now.  So this day, I’ve stayed home and cleaned out my email inbox, worked on my portfolio, and shared a few links.  I missed Small Biz Friday this week, I was working on a series of Main Street awards and that writing was a priority.  I promise…

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Editorial Calendar Planning

I’ve been working on my editorial calendar for this blog.  First I wanted to be sure to incorporate my three words — Explore, Become, Serve. An editorial calendar is defined by Wikipedia as: Editorial calendars are used to define and control the process of creating content, from idea through writing and publication. An individual or…

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Visions for 2013

It’s the last day of the year.  A day generally spent in raucous revelry, dropping balls and too much alcohol – amateur night. What if you did something a little different on this day? My friend SuzeMuse suggests you spend the day in quiet.  Suze says “choose to spend the last day of the year…

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Eight iPad Apps

Many of my friends got an iPad for Christmas.  I won mine last year and love it.  But you know, after the first blush of using it wears off, you wonder what else it can do for you.  I am by no means an expert on the iPad.  However, I know what I like and…

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Pinterest

Pinterest is a platform where people share pictures, ideas, quotes, stories and all kinds of stuff.  It seems like this might be just a place for people to hang out and get motivated to do projects around the home and share great ideas with friends. And mostly, that’s what it is. Except when it’s not.…

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Dream every day

Sometimes we get caught up in the day to day.  Hit the ground running, work like a madman, go out to eat with friends and come home to a warm cozy bed.  That’s life for a lot of us.  And it’s not a bad life. Still …. some days I miss the dreaming.  The ‘what…

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Cool Idea for Christmas Gift

Orbitz.com gave me $20 towards the purchase of greeting cards as a Christmas gift.  Here’s the card I made and will be sending to a few people.  Thanks Orbitz!  Now .. what kind of cool thing could you do for your customers?   Stationery card View the entire collection of cards.

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