Steven Brant, in the Huffington Post, penned this article: Capitalism Is Dead. Now What Do We Do?
I think he’s got a brilliant point. Socialism for the big companies. Capitalism, or “sink or swim” for the small companies. He also raises an interesting point between financial experts versus designers.
Really, there’s a whole book in that article.
It [...]

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Our company has expanded, and we were happily forced to upgrade computers. I had been using an iMac, my wife Holly a iBook, and not only did we a need a third computer for our new employee Kate, but we all needed to be on Intel Macs.
In all, we spent about $10K, between the three [...]

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You want to know a secret? My clients and class participants all trust me to hold confidentiality with the most intimate details of their business, but I’m going to go public with one detail I know. I’m going to tell you the straight-up fact, the one that no one tells anyone else.
They all get scared. [...]

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I realized quite abruptly that I’m still thinking about my blog as if I were in “experimentation” mode. Meaning, I had this story in my head that I didn’t know how to do it, that I was testing it out and seeing what would work, and basically holding back in all kinds of unconscious ways.
Then, [...]

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A friend and colleague, Havi Brooks of The Fluent Self just dumped her “noozletter” in favor of her blog. She was, as she admitted, a-scared and a-tremblin’ about the decision, because every big marketing guru tells you that you have to have a newsletter.
But she dumped it, and now it’s history.
You may be wondering whether [...]

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Last week I wrote about why you should never have more than three projects. And then, yesterday morning, in our Heart of Business Team Meeting (I love writing that, just cause after years of doing this nearly solo, we now have a team!), we nearly did it to ourselves.
So, half-way through the meeting, we killed [...]

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Here’s what happened- I dragged my feet.
Well, not exactly. We just got overwhelmed, and didn’t get out from under a huge pile of projects and to-do’s until about a week ago.
But, what was supposed to happen was we were going to start promoting our Path to Profitability Retreat back in April. Really gently, giving everyone [...]

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