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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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Emotional Injury

Last month, I clocked just shy of two thousand miles driving zig-zagging all across California. House hunting. School hunting. Business hunting. Sanity hunting. Short version: it stressed me the fuck out. Usually, long drives help mellow me out

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one problem

I’ve learned a lot from my TV addiction. I was a beta customer of Netflix during the red and white envelope days, and am shamefully proud of my early adoption of the Netflix Binge back

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Remember to Breathe

I got him. I finally landed a solid shot on Fred the Dentist, a soft-spoken black belt and occasional sparring partner. During our other fights we always gently slip by all of my attacks and

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Nostalgic Revolution

I wrote the below ramble a few months after moving to Chico, California. It took me 3-years to do something about it. That “side project” has pulled thousands of local anti-social Facebook junkies onto the

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Tangible Reinforcement

Confession time. I’m a resolutions addict. It all started in Murrieta, California. My mom had just achieved three gigantic milestones. After birthing me at 17, not finishing high school and surviving life in SoCal solo and welfare-free

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