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The 8th Small Biz Commandment

Another hard-earned lesson from one small biz owner to another. The 8th Commandment: LISTEN HARD. REMAIN RELEVANT. In my first year of business I pretended my way into a few Joomla Template customization projects. Hard

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Altruism in Time and Space

I’m going to take a break from the Small Biz Commandments this week, since nobody wants to read ten weeks worth of those in a row. Instead, today I offer you one rule I learned

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The 9th Small Biz Commandment

These ain’t your granddad’s commandments, but we take ’em darn seriously. The 9th Commandment: LEAVE NO INTERACTION ON THE TABLE Think small town mentality. In smaller towns the idea of walking down the street and

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The 10th Small Biz Commandment

We use these as a compass to make sure we are taking our clients (and our company) in the right direction. Inevitably we slip up and break a commandment and pay the price in sanity,

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Congratulations, Mark

We’d like to congratulate Mark Lundsten of Fidalgo Films for the full funding of his short film on Kickstarter. Mark’s film, The Bath, is a movie about a family dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease.  Mark and

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Selling, Guilt-Free

Know yourself If you’re confident with who you are and know that your intentions are in the right place (that being….for your customers, not just

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Irvines Images – Gone Viral

One of my clients, Irvines Images, just had a photo they submitted to a popular Facebook Page go viral today.  Check out these stats! (Oh, and the picture is pretty cool too).     Lesson

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Goodbye @ThatsNotWright

The Sordid Business of Deleting a Twitter Account Sniffle, Sniffle. After weeks and weeks of deliberation (seriously), I’ve finally decided to nuke my @ThatsNotWright on Twitter. May not seem a big deal. I mean, people

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Looking for Heroes

This week, I re-read one of my favorite blogs about what it really means to be a small biz owner: Why Everyone Hopes You’ll Be Their Hero by Robert Bruce. The short but powerful piece has guided many of

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Camus for the Small Biz Owner

“The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus Been really digging the work of Albert Camus

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Selling, Guilt-Free

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