Free Teleclass May 18: Love Your List

Yep, I’ve got another teleclass coming up, hot on the heels of WordPress Swimming Lessons (the first webinar session was yesterday and it was, as usual, a blast! You can still sign up, get the recording of yesterday’s session, and have plenty of time to practice before Friday’s Q&A session, if you’re so inclined).

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Restaurant menu follies

The Professor and I recently got takeout Thai food from our favorite local restaurant, Sky Thai. And it turned into a case study in “what were they thinking?” that I just had to write about.

Takeaway #1: A good domain name gives you a lot of Google juice

I knew I had a paper [...]

Moments of zing! Or, what I've been learning about Right People

I read Havi’s post on Re-explaining the Right People concept today, and feel inspired to tell my how-I-found-Havi story here because it is my best (living, organic) self-reminder of the whole idea of Right People. It was my moment of zing! that gave me a visceral (in a good way!) right-people experience that I [...]

My phantom waiting room, bamboozled customers, and DirecTV

Another item from the junk-mail files.

It’s amusing to observe how off-base some of this old-school dead-tree marketing can be.

I usually throw this stuff away without opening it, but what the heck, it was a slow mail day, plus this one was addressed to my business name, which was slightly unusual.

It was [...]