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Last week, I wrote about a decision that my husband and I had to make about whether or not we would to lease our loft to film the next season of a reality TV show. This sounded exciting until [...]

I have this problem. I think its a good problem. A well-known reality TV show wants to film their upcoming season at my house. The producer of the show had been looking for a unique location to [...]

I’ve been a staunch WordPress apostle for the past twelve years, and this post may get me labeled as a heretic. Heresy is any belief or theory that is at variance with established beliefs [...]

Are you a solid web or graphic designer who’s stumped as to what it takes to bring in clients who will pay reasonable rates for your work?  When faced with the first meeting with a high-quality [...]

What does it take to have a successful business and even more important, what does it take to have a successful life? Some might say a degree, intelligence, connections, beauty, a great idea, [...]

It’s January 2nd, and I’m back in my office, sitting at my desk for the first time in a couple of weeks, reading everyone’s posts about planning for the new year, setting goals [...]

It’s not a secret that I’m a dog person and the New Tricks’ spirit animal is a big dog. In the past, a big dog was part of our logo. Although we’ve dropped the big dog image from our [...]

I’ve been talking about email and email mailing lists for the past few weeks and have another tasty tidbit to share with you. Today let’s talk about how you can clean up your contact lists in [...]

I initially wrote this post,  How to Add an Image to Your Gmail Signature in 2009 when it was challenging to add a graphic or image to a signature in Gmail. Can you believe that this one post [...]

Recently, one of my favorite website clients called with a problem. She lamented that the number of calls and requests for proposals her company receives each week had gone down over the past [...]