I’ve been up to my magnificent breasts today in work, and running errands for the apartment. My chihuahua, Bug, wasn’t going to let me go another day feeding him the food he hates – out to the pet store I went.
So here’s a roundup from people who actually put more thought into their content than [...]

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Seems like there’s a bootcamp for everything these days!
Darren Rowse is considering a 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Bootcamp (forget about saying that 3 times fast – I can’t even say it once, slowly). Seems though hundreds have people have recently picked up the 31DBBB workbook, not everyone can make it all the [...]

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Bloggers love comments. I’m no different. They’re like a badge of success. It you get elevently-trillion comments on a post, you are awesome. If you get none, you are a loser who should commit suicide immediately and do the world a favor.
Or something along those lines.
Well, despite my best efforts, I’m still alive, so I [...]

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Goals are not like New Year’s Resolutions, meant to be cast aside as soon as the hangover wears off. Goals come in many forms: Short term, mid term and long term.
I sat down with someone today who wanted to know my goals. Specifically she wanted to know the personal ones, but because I run my [...]

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I am as much a writer as I am white, or female, or anything else that I was born into. From the moment I could string letters together coherently, I was writing essays: A day in the life of the family Doberman, what our summer cottage meant to me, a letter to my best friend [...]

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Or at least it felt that way. Though I can’t say I wasn’t warned. And it was certainly better than the legal document I once read that went on for seven pages before the first period.
Glen, the 12-year-old who runs ViperChill, wrote an excellent post about… well, lots of stuff, actually. Pretty insightful for a [...]

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I read two great posts earlier today.
Five Simple Ways to Increase the Reach of Your Blog
I love the points about social media and commenting, but I disagree with article marketing. I tried it, and it didn’t work for me. That said, I know there are a great many niche bloggers who have built up a [...]

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Whether you are launching your own product, wooing investors or promoting a product for a client, it is important to have a marketing plan in hand to refer to.
Unlike a sales pitch, the marketing plan is a back-office document that outlines the following:

Introduction to your product
Features and Benefits
Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
Target Demographic
Market Analysis
Competition
Marketing

Introduction
Briefly describe your [...]

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Regular readers of this blog know that I work from home after many grueling years of corporate whoring. I simply cannot imagine squeezing back into another pair of too-tight heels and prancing around a corporate ant farm day after day. I have put that life behind me.
And now I have a new reason to be [...]

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Welcome to another No Pants Friday™. Your week is nearly through. Soon it will be time to kick back with a glass of wine or a beer, and unwind after the long and troublesome week. Here’s some reading to get you started:
Carma Spence-Pothitt writes a guest post for The Urban Muse about home page mistakes. [...]

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