How to be a star – and make one
Today’s task in the 31 Days Blog Challenge is to write a blog-post containing a list. I’ve entered my Coloring The Wind blog for the challenge, but I thought it might be a good idea to put a list in...
View ArticleApp.net: is advertising the problem – or self-promotion?
My Rebelmouse page: all my social activity in one place A friend spent half-an-hour last night enthusing about the latest great web innovation. Just launched, App.net promises to change everything....
View ArticleDazzled by Zazzle?
When I started the Coloring The Wind project 6 weeks ago, I had absolutely no idea how I was going to turn words of inspiration into finished art-work that I could deliver to customers. But with all...
View ArticleElevating sales
Every weekday in my mail, I get a little prompt from the team hosting the 31 Days Blog Challenge that I’m participating in. Today’s was to write an elevator pitch for my blog. It shouldn’t have been a...
View ArticleThe Elevator Question
So you’re in your elevator, riding all the way to the top of the building. And one poor unfortunate soul’s riding with you. In 1 minute 47 seconds precisely, you tell him everything about your...
View ArticleThe Unique Buying Proposition
It’s hard to be in a successful relationship if there’s only one of you. And even when there are two, the long-term prospects aren’t good if the focus is always on ‘Me’. It’s just the same in business...
View ArticleFighting the good fight
Most of my energy these days is devoted to the business I started building from scratch a couple of months ago – Coloring The Wind. It’s a big change for me. After 20 years of talking about the...
View ArticleCharity begins
I was working last week on The New Hunter – a Coloring The Wind product which combines a portrait from Dale Webster and a poem from me. Dale’s been living in Kenya for the last few years, and much of...
View ArticleMaking the most of disaster
An old warrior – that didn’t let me down Disaster’s never more than a step away. Or in my case, 6 inches, the distance between my coffee cup and the computer. Up till then, it had been a good day. I’d...
View ArticleWhen the blogging needs to stop
The new Coloring The Wind Facebook headerLess blogging, more new site content now – and this is where we’ll announce updates I haven’t blogged for a week, and I think I might be cured. Until then, I’d...
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