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December 15, 2010
Raise your hand if you have watched Office Space. OK, now if your hand is not in the air you need to hang your head and slowly back out of the room. Office Space resonated with all of us because we have all had a job that revolved around unproductive meetings and mind numbing paperwork. …
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December 6, 2010
Not if you want to be a successful consultant. I have heard this saying since I was a teenager working in K-Mart and I am sure that you have too. It has been deeply embedded in all of our psyches and both sides would be better off if we forgot it.
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December 2, 2010
I am always looking for new WordPress plugins to make my life easier. Over the years I have tested out quite a few and slowly built a list of the ones that I use on every website I create. Recently, I wrote a guest post for the Diary of a Mad Freelancer about how to …
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November 28, 2010
I have managed to fend off a self induced turkey coma long enough to drag myself back to the keyboard. I do not know how long I will be able to stay upright but I couldn’t let the Thanksgiving holidays slip away without giving a few thanks of my own. I am constantly surfing the net to …
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November 19, 2010
I could use a little help at the dump, any volunteers? Dont worry I am not asking you to help me move a sofa, I am talking about my new podcast the Brain Dump. I would like you to give me some ideas about topics that you need explained or that you want more information …
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November 17, 2010
One of my clients asked me if I could write a white paper for them but in actuality they needed a briefing paper. It got me to thinking, if you are not in a branch of the government or part of a large corporate structure then you may think that they are the same but …
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November 15, 2010
I learned very early that tone is important when trying to communicate with other people. If I took the wrong tone when talking to my mom, she would have me out looking for a switch of the correct length and heft. For you non-southerners that do not know what a switch is, I envy you. …
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November 12, 2010
Welcome to the official launch of the Brain Dump podcast! In this first episode I will be talking about cold calling. For those of you that do not know what cold calling is, it is when a business calls another business that they do not know, to offer their services. It is a very effective …
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November 10, 2010
I have been doing a lot of research on podcasting for the last few days. I want to add a podcast to my site but as a famous writer would say, I have yet to screw my courage to the sticking place. Oh and speaking of historical figures (hows that for a transition?) I stumbled across a …
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November 8, 2010
The way that we interact as a community and do business with each other is always shifting and I find the process fascinating. Not too long ago, if you wanted to be taken seriously as a business person, you had to have a brick and mortar building. It gave your clients a sense of stability …
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