Closing the Deal on the First Date

Before The First Date She’s interested. You’re interested. You know there is a mutual attraction. You have spoken to each other via a combination of email, text, Facebook or dating website messaging and finally on the phone. Neither of you has a squeaky voice and you both kind of dig each other. She wonders if [...]

What is a Content Strategy Session?

All too often as small business owners or solopreneurs we are working in our business and not on our business. What does that mean? It means we are spinning our wheels, scheduling appointments and making sure the pipeline is filled with the next great deal while our own business marketing plan sits unfinished or abandoned. [...]

Life Lessons I Learned this Week

Life isn’t about work. That’s the overwhelming life lesson I learned this week. It’s been a crazy life the last few months. My focus has been on business and I am pleased to have landed my biggest deal this month. Life isn’t about getting the biggest deal. Life is about what getting the biggest deal [...]

Shaq’s Five Principals for Upping Your Business Game

Wired Business recently ran an article about Shaq’s five principals for upping your business game. I was surprised to learn Shaw is a techy geek. I like him more now that I know this. He also has a great world view. Simplicity: Whether it’s basketball or an investment, he keeps it simple. I have a [...]

An Open Letter to Women Who Don’t Appreciate their Men

Dear Women who are married to awesome guys and don’t appreciate they are married to awesome guys – You know who you are. You piss and moan about how he leaves his dirty socks on the floor instead of in the hamper. You nitpick about everything from his fingernails to his wardrobe to his mother, [...]

Speechless

Today I am a writer without words. I am speechless. I won another speech contest last night. I represented my Toastmasters club East Valley Echoes in the Saguaro Area 3 International and Table Topics Contests. While I didn’t win the Table Topics (impromptu speech) contest, I gave what can only be described as a Miss [...]

Just Outside the Comfort Zone

Just outside the comfort zone is an amazing place where I meet many of my readers. The place is where you bare your soul and tell me how you think matters of the heart might kill you. The place where you tell me that on the day you told God you were okay with being [...]

My Dating Realization 100 Days Until I Turn 40

Yesterday I calculated the number of days until I turn 40 – it was 101 days. I promise I won’t write every day of the countdown. Since it is a Tuesday, when I would write a blog post about dating, I decided to combine the two themes. I recently came to a realization about me [...]

101 Days Until I Turn 40

No matter how many people tell me I don’t look a day past 30-ish, the reality cannot be ignored. It is 101 days until I turn 40. That is reality. It is reality that that my hair is dyed every five weeks. I own and use a pair of reading glasses. For my entire adulthood it [...]

Powerful Tools for Website Owners

Guest Blogger Scott Buscemi, CEO of Luminary Web Strategies As a web surfer, you’ve probably seen some cool features on a website and thought, “How can I do that?” There are many tools that have been developed over the years that can help you improve your website and create a better visitor experience. And to top it off, [...]