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Well well well, I KNEW there were more of you out there than just two. Yesterday, amongst observations from my dungeon, I threw out the idea of a new section on this site, something like a Feature Friday, and it wasn’t just the two of you that responded…there were five. Swoon! I love you guys. […]

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Another exhilarating tidbit from the archives. And by exhilarating I of course mean weird and random with a splash of pathetic. This one I didn’t dig up on an old hard drive. It was farmed from my Tumblr site. I site that, since I’m now spouting off about whatever topic floats into this brain of […]

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Chick-Fil-A Leadercast

May 23, 2011

Chick-Fil-A bag

There I was, working away in our itty, bitty home office, sipping my coffee, when I looked over and gasp! saw this grease-stained fast food bag laying on my desk. And it was empty. Drama! After getting over the initial shock of who, in their seemingly healthy, right mind would ever.do.such.a.thing. as order something that […]

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Big Omaha, a recap

May 18, 2011

Big Omaha

I spent 48 hours in Omaha last week for the Big Omaha conference and, phew, it’s going to take me 48 days to sort through everything I learned. For those of you that weren’t there, I’m assigning you a bit of homework. Are you ready? Ok, here we go: 1. Watch the recap video from […]

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Network marketing (or direct sales or multi-level marketing or whatever you want to call it) often gets a bad rap. I won’t get into why. You know why. So for those of us who have made marketing a product and getting paid for it a part of our lives, tidbits like this video are powerful. […]

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Big Omaha

Greetings from (rainy. very very rainy.) Omaha! I’m excited to get to spend the next couple days learning and networking and drinking coffee at Big Omaha. In its third year, this conference is “the nation’s most ambitious conference of innovation and entrepreneurship.” Also, it rocks. If you’re in the Midwest, or if you’re entrepreneurial-minded, or […]

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I ran into this video today. It made me think. I like when something makes me think. I hope it makes you think, too. As a self-employed businessperson/geek, motivation, and figuring out how to self-motivate and turn that into profitable action, is of utmost importance. For me, it’s a constant area of improvement. As it […]

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Friday Funday

May 6, 2011

Today is Friday! Aren’t you glad you have me around to remind you of such things? Today is a special Friday, in fact, for it’s the first Friday in my new era of No Work Fridays. After working so many years on the side of my full-time job in order to one day be my […]

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