Create Your Own Shawshank Redemption for Labor Day 2014 and Beyond

Hardly a day goes by when someone working in corporate life wishes and hopes to escape the nine-to-five career to pursue the idea of lucrative self-employment. That is why Pam Slim’s 2009 book Escape from Cubicle Nation touched a huge nerve to become an award-winning best-seller. Today, many self-described corporate prisoners and frustrated aspiring entrepreneurs [...]

Five Life Accidents that Brought Me Here

  1. I used to own a boutique public relations agency in service to big clients, big budgets, and big news. I enjoyed operating my agency from a home office above the garage in suburban Bellevue, Washington. That was BEFORE two home burglaries, a burst pipe flooded the downstairs, and a tree came crashing through the [...]

Getting Known Versus Spam and Inviting Your Straight Talk

There is a huge joint venture in progress that has 70 big internet entrepreneurs involved.  We are all beating the drum for Callan Rush for good reason.  She is a master trainer who guides workshop, retreat, and seminar leaders to successfully and profitably deliver their messages to change the world. That is a drum I'll [...]

Record, Rapport, Results — Three Big R’s for Leading Successful Teleseminars

I've given and hosted scores and scores of teleseminars over the last few years.  And, since using words well is my gift and the technology -- not so much -- I confess that taking on teleseminars and the technology around them was brand new territory for me. It's a little unsettling to know that dozens [...]

Sometimes, Everything that CAN Go Wrong Does — What Then?

Mid-June was the date on the calendar when I set out to debut a new product to the world. Well in advance, I assembled the perfect team of technology wizards and administrative talent to support me. Step by step I planned my approach. And I even took time to specify with an extraordinary level of [...]