admin on October 2nd, 2011

The sad fact is that we are often too busy to read something that even looks like it might take longer than a single sweep of the minute hand to peruse.

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admin on June 21st, 2011

If you are a writer and don’t have someone to hold you accountable – whether it’s a coach or a fellow writer, a friend or a calendar with dates marked in ink- I encourage you to find someone now. You’ll thank yourself for it!

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admin on April 25th, 2011

We all want to be the “next big thing.” We all want to give the talks, get writer’s cramp just signing books for hours on end, to see our books on the shelves of big box and Indie book stores alike, and to have our Amazon link come up on Page One of a Google search.

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admin on April 9th, 2011

If you are publishing anything these days (and in today’s technology-driven world, “publishing” is akin to tapping the “enter” or “send” keys on the computer), your message had better be as good as it’s going to get.

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admin on February 13th, 2011

I know, it’s cheesy – but this post was inspired by the little candy hearts that you see at every grocery store, drug store, discount center, etc., this time of year – if for no other reason than they actually do get conversations started and, as a result, serve as wonderful writing prompts for elevator [...]

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admin on December 30th, 2010

Spell Check won’t ding you for a correctly spelled word that is being used incorrectly.

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admin on December 16th, 2010

Dear Santa, I’ve been very good this year, attending networking meetings, keeping appointments, giving lots of referrals and doing the very best I can for my clients and customers. But I know that I could be doing a better job of communicating if I had some fantastic e-mails, a well-written website, a few articles or [...]

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admin on August 9th, 2010

Time is valuable, and your subscribers don’t want to waste their precious time scrolling through their in-boxes, frantically mashing the “delete” key.

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