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How to Use Clubhouse (And Not Hate Yourself): A Beginner’s Guide

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“Wait, should I be on Clubhouse?” I’ve been answering that question a lot since I joined a couple of weeks ago, because I keep talking about it. It’s not a straight answer, but I’ll get to it. For one, it’s not the best thing that ever happened to my marriage. My husband hates when I’m […]

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I’m a born procrastinator who hates homework. Here’s how I designed a “no homework” career

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My fall semester, Frosh year—that’s what we called first year instead of the male-centric “Freshman”—I stayed in my room most of the time. I passed up invitations to go to the student center, to go play pool, to go hang out “with the guys.” My friend Risa, locking her room across the hall and dangling […]

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business, procrastination, productivity and time management, wayback, writing

11 cries for help and expensive business mistakes Marie Forleo dug me out of in 2009

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TRIVIA QUESTION:  Do you know who’s behind the 8-figure juggernaut of an online course called “B-School”? If you’re saying “Marie Forleo,” yeah, duh. That’s the obvious answer. But, as I recently discovered, it’s not the whole answer.  Looking for an old email in my inbox, I stumbled on one between me and Marie. It made […]

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b-school, business, copywriting, marie forleo

How To Get Out Of A Rut: 13 Ways To Stop Feeling Like A Useless Blob And Get Back To Your Creative, Motivated Self (If That Was Ever You)

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It comes on suddenly. For months, I’m obnoxiously giddy about my life and what I get to do for a living. I’m on a roll. No, not just on a roll: I’m on fire! #Unstoppable. Until, one day, I wake up feeling…doomed. Life is relentless. I have to do this till I die? I hate […]

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b-school, business, creativity, self-help-y stuff, self-improvement, success b-school, habits, self-development, writing

Every kind of writing I’ve ever been paid for (and two kinds that paid $zero).

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“You have to be EL James or JK Rowling to make a decent living as a writer! Don’t even try! Get a real job!” Ever hear that? Ignore it. There are countless ways to get paid to write. To give you some ideas, I went all the way back to the early Nineties – the […]

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business, copywriting, email marketing, work entrepreneurs, marketing, success, TV, work, writing jobs

Behind the scenes of my big, fat website redo

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(11 crucial steps for your branding or rebranding project, including one I missed) A website and branding redo is no small, or inexpensive undertaking. So let’s start with this: Why I redid my site – even though I didn’t “need” to

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business brand photos, branding, branding photography, email marketing, list building, mini-courses, personal brand, social media, website copy

How to charge your worth

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I see a lot of blogs and Facebook conversations about “earning the income you deserve” and  “charging what you’re worth.”

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business, copywriting, entrepre-nerd-ville, marketing, rants, work

Blog post vs. email — the death match

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What should go in my emails and what should go on the blog? Can they overlap? Should they be the same, or different? I struggled with this one for a long time. Here’s what I used to do:

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blogs and blogging, business, content marketing, copywriting, email marketing, marketing, writing

How to sell art, photography, jewelry, luxury goods, entertainment, cupcakes, and anything else that doesn’t "solve a problem."

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Have you noticed this? Entrepreneurs* love to get on the digital soapbox and yell, “YOU HAVE TO SOLVE A PROBLEM! IF YOU DON’T SOLVE A PROBLEM, YOU DON’T HAVE A BUSINESS.”

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business, copywriting, marketing

How to tap your talent

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At my first job that didn’t involve cutting lemon wedges and pouring draught Beer for drunk, off-duty doormen, my father came to meet me one day for lunch.

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business, copywriting, creativity, success

DO be all "look at me!" (How to be a leader and a star)

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There’s this woman Georgia in my dance class — by that, I mean my instructor Cebo’s dance class, which I take, not teach — who’s amazing.

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business, creativity, entrepre-nerd-ville, leadership, success

How to keep it real when you "blow up"

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When I was on the final panel at Unfair Advantage Live a woman asked a question I didn’t think she had to worry about.

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Make your name by doing the unsexy work. (AKA Puff Is Pissed, AKA Grownups Eating Ice Cream And Crying)

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At the company off-site, they had tubs of ice cream waiting for us first thing in the morning. Breakfast of cry-babies.

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business, copywriting, creativity, entrepre-nerd-ville, success, work, writing

How to follow up without being a nagging, passive-aggressive psycho

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I had a housemate in college who’d leave messages on my answering machine like this: ​BEEEP! “Hey, just checking in, I was just wondering what you were planning to do with the spaghetti pot and some of the other stuff you left out on the counter. I’d clean them myself, it’s no big deal, but with […]

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business, copywriting, language, memories, passive aggressive, social media, wayback

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