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Aug 24, 2017 Don’t Discount the Message Because You Don’t Like the Messenger A few weeks ago a client and I were discussing strategies for growing her business. One idea in particular seemed like a terrific fit but it had been offered by… Read More
Aug 17, 2017 Before You Blow Your Stack—Drink Water This past week I made the—apparently unwelcome—decision to ask someone a question about a process I found confusing. My intention was not to stir up trouble but to gain clarity… Read More
Aug 10, 2017 What a Bad Date Can Teach You about Telling a Compelling Brand Story * By this time most of us know it’s not enough to have a terrific brand: we need a compelling brand story. But what do you do if—as you’re telling your… Read More
Aug 3, 2017 How Can You Get Investors to Do More than Nibble—How Can You Get them to Bite? As you can see, my husband is an avid fisherman. As a vegetarian, I’m more focused on having him throw back what he catches, but I do understand the thrill… Read More
Jul 27, 2017 It’s Not Fair!!! How to Go from Whining to Winning I was recently presented with 3 different work scenarios, each requiring a playbook to get from whining to winning. The people who received them found them effective so I thought… Read More
Jul 20, 2017 What do Porn and Bad Pitch/Cover Letters Have in Common? More than You Think The nature of my business is such that I have multiple email inboxes. The consequence of that is that one is always, inevitably, in the midst of a spam porn… Read More
Jul 13, 2017 Always Clap When the Song Ends – You Might Not Get an Encore Usually, when someone says, “Boy, do I have a crazy story for you….” it doesn’t end up being that kooky. I think you’ll agree this one is: Last week my… Read More
Jul 6, 2017 The Love You Take = The Love You Make As The Beatles so aptly pointed out, “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” What’s had me thinking about this line in… Read More
Jun 29, 2017 Coffee in the Clouds—It’s a Podcast! Hello, hello, This past week, I was lucky enough to connect with the gentleman pictured above, Thomas Capone. Tom is the CEO of the New York Distance Learning Association. Among… Read More
Jun 22, 2017 Beware “The Narcissism of Small Differences” I became aware of Freud’s concept of the narcissism of small differences while reading Curtis Sittenfeld’s, story “Show, Don’t Tell” in The New Yorker. (As we all learned from watching… Read More

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