When you’re having a conversation with your friends, do you try to sell them your latest MLM scheme? When you start up a discussion at a dinner party about the economy, is their response usually about how to position your portfolio for success NOW? I didn’t think so. So why do you, or anyone else, think that this is totally acceptable behavior in conversational media? Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
Yesterday, I had one of those nasty experiences that teach us a lot about good business practices. The story I’m about to tell you doesn’t contain much in the way of news but it does serve to remind us all about a few areas of best practices.
I use Spry to host my web site and my company mail. I access my mail via Thunderbird, Gmail, or my Blackberry depending on where I am and on what computer. When things became, as they say in the movies, “quiet…too quiet”, I dug a little deeper. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Huh?, Reality checks
My neighbor is a food professional. She’s been a pastry chef and now tests and writes recipes for various food publications. The good news is that she often appears at our door with a version of something, usually delicious, on which she’s working. The bad news is that’s it’s frightening to reciprocate – kind of like teeing it up with Tiger or Phil: no matter how good you think you are, you just know they’re way better. Continue reading
Filed under food, Helpful Hints, Thinking Aloud
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