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How to Deal with a Bad Day

Christine Kane is one of our favorite guest bloggers, and it’s been awhile since she’s been here.  Todays post offers some good, gentle advice on how to deal with a bad day. Let’s face it. No matter how much progress we make, we’re still going to have “bad days.” You know the ones. When the old critical voices…

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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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Small Biz Friday: Debworks

Most business owners don’t toot their own horn enough.  I’m no different.  I am different in that I don’t have a brick and mortar business.  I work wherever the client is.  So what does Debworks do? We work with small businesses to show them how to create an online and offline marketing plan.   It…

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Get Your Facts Straight

American Independent Business Alliance co-founder Jeff Milchen reached out to me and shared some research that helps define the numbers and statistics we use when we talk about small businesses keeping money in the local economy.  Today I’ll share some of those results and links to more information.  The following was taken from AMIBA website…

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Buy Local, Buy Chamber

Today I had the honor of presenting to the local Kiwanis organization.  I promised them they could see the presentation again here on this website. Just click here!  Greater Franklin County Chamber of Commerce has worked hard to incorporate offline and online marketing into their mix in 2012.  We are looking forward to even more…

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Small Biz Friday: Dwolla

Have you heard of Dwolla?  You will. Here’s a quick explanation from their website: No cards, just cash Say goodbye to plastic cards, ATM fees, hidden charges and fine print. Dwolla empowers anyone with an internet connection to safely send money to friends or businesses. Say hello to the Dwolla network. It really is that…

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Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet

Ben Smith from Social:IRL is a friend and a really smart guy. Today he blogged about the Ultimate Social Media Image Size Guide and we are re-sharing that image here!

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Getting Found with Social Media

I often receive press releases from around the world.  They announce new books, new products, events, activities, tourism, social media news and more.  Mostly they end up in the round file (for you young people, the trash can).  However, sometimes they make it through and land here on this blog.  Today I’m sharing an article…

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The Lost Art of Mixing: A Review

Erica Bauermeister wrote a book entitled The School of Essential Ingredients that shared the story of strangers connecting and cooking food.  I wasn’t sure she could write a follow up to that book.  But she has — The Lost Art of Mixing.   Lillian, the restaurant owner, mixes up the lives all the characters in…

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