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Simplifying

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Today’s the day! There’s still time for you to register and attend the Unlock Your Hidden Profit Potential Webinar, starting today at 1 pm PT/4 pm ET. Anne and I intend to deliver solid information and have fun in the process. Bring your questions and join us. Click on the link to your left. Busy…

Worthy Tip: Use Your Head

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Don’t forget: tomorrow is the Unlock Your Hidden Profit Potential Webinar! Join Anne Wayman and me for an hour of ideas and exercises to shift your perspective and help capture more opportunities. Click on the link to the left and join us! Thanks to Dr. Freelancer Jake Poinier for alerting me to this informal study…

Begging to Differ

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There’s still time to sign up for the Unlock Your Hidden Profit Potential teleclass. Anne Wayman and I will present our ideas for helping you rid yourself of those habits and roadblocks that keep you stuck and find new approaches that create more clarity. Click on the link to your left and join us for…

Why Good Ideas Don’t Take Off

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Because of our technical issues with PayPal last week, Anne and I have extended the deadline for our early registration discount. Sign up for our teleclass today and pay only $44.49. Sign up link is to your left. I had an interesting conversation not long ago with a potential client. They have a great product,…

Moronic Techno Moves

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What a great Twitter chat yesterday! Thanks to everyone who participated. The questions were great and the camaraderie was amazing. Yes, we plan to do it weekly. As soon as we manage through when, we’ll keep you posted. Follow along with the #writingsquared tag. Know that Webinar Anne and I are hosting? Well, for about…

If It Didn’t Work With Huffington….

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Don’t forget to stop by Twitter today at 9 am PT/Noon ET for Anne’s and my free tweet-up chat. Using whatever Twitter reader you have, create a new column (I use TweetDeck) and use the #writingsquared hashtag to participate and post. Easy peasy. I received an “offer” in email a few days ago. Instead of…

The World’s Worst Freelance Advice

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Don’t forget to register before the end of day tomorrow for Anne and my Webinar, Writers! Unlock Your Hidden Profit Potential. You’ll save nearly six bucks by doing so…. Plus you get a ton of freebies worth more than you’ll pay for the entire Webinar (I added them up – the five freebies are worth…

The Career-Killing Blame Game

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What I’m reading: The Loved One by Evelyn WaughWhat’s on the iPod: Tenth Avenue Freezeout by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Quick note: Anne Wayman and I will be hosting a free Twitter “tweet up” this Thursday at 9 am PT/ noon ET. To join us, just use the #writingsquared hashtag and follow…

Pumping It Up

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I’m thrilled to announce that I have partnered with super freelancer Anne Wayman to bring you something I’m really excited about – our joint Webinar, Writers! Uncover Your Hidden Profit Potential! Ooo, you’re going to like this one. This one hour Webinar will teach you how to: – Know exactly what you really want from…

If Weekends Were Idle and Work Weeks Were Busy…

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It’s happened again. I’ve come back to the work week happy for the break in activity. The stepdaughter came for a three-day visit, so we were happily preoccupied from Friday through yesterday. We had time to work in the garden, though. It was wet at times and warm – high 70s – but the humidity…

Devon Ellington

I have two articles to write, a bunch of PR for the Mermaid Ball, starting to teach a 2 week writing intensive, prepping for company that will be here for 10 days, the assignment for Confidential Job #1, a new regular blog gig, and working on the next Annabel book. That's just today. 😉

With the Belmont Stakes AND the Tony Awards AND the Stanley Cup these last few days, it's been insane.

Lori

It has been some great tv this week, hasn't it? 🙂

Cathy Miller

Weekend was great-got in an 8-mile walk on Saturday and another on Sunday for my training.

Don't know if you remember (although I know my activities are the center of your universe) 🙂 but last month was the ton of projects in the queue, but on hold for various reasons.

Well, the floodgates have opened – 2 case studies, a marketing brochure, a newsletter sales letter, a blog post/week for a client, a ghostwritten article, a 2,000 word resource document and I just received 4 new projects for the rest of the year from my favorite client.

The VP of that favorite client is leaving, but promised to connect with me in her new job. Woo-hoo. Life is good. 🙂

Lori

Wow! Cathy, that's fantastic! Yes, I remember. :))

Paula

On the Tony's when Sutton Foster was thanking (and gushing over) her dresser, I thought, "Wow – I wonder if anyone Devon dressed won a Tony and gushed about her?" Next thought: Yeah. Probably.

This was the first temperate, dry weekend we've had in months when I didn't have a stack of work to catch up with. So I intended to trim the 150 miles (oh, right…linear feet, it only feels like miles) of privet hedge in the back yard. I usually do that around Memorial Day and again around Labor Day. But I bought flowers for the pair of fancy strawberry jars my brother & s-i-l gave me for my birthday. Magenta geraniums on top, pink & cream moss roses on the upper pockets, and flowering vincas (dubbed "lipstick vincas" – they are various shades of white, pink, magenta…)on the lower pockets. Then I started thinking the vincas might overgrow their spaces….

I also planted a small larkspur I bought at a friend's friend's plant sale, but there was no root system, so who knows if it will take. Pulled more of the invasive woodvine that keeps crawling over and through the fence of the foreclosed house next door. (That side of my property only has 2-3" of "yard" between the house and the retaining wall that goes down to the neighboring yard, so I'm always fighting those darn vines.) Potted up a couple more 75-cent geraniums, dragged my giant hibiscus out from the house, swept the porch, planted a few more seeds, pulled weeds, hand pruned a few smaller shrubs and picked some broken branches from the yard. The hedges will have to wait. (I didn't have yard bags, anyway.)

Wrote a column. Did laundry. Need to do a deep cleaning, but there's only so much one person can do in one weekend.

The highlight of the weekend? The Tony Awards!

Ashley

The weekend was great. Productive and fun, and I even got in a little volunteer work. We also went to the Apple store to see if we can be persuaded away from our PC tendencies. That conversation last week made me want to go find out more about each one so we can make the right choice for our next computer.

My to-do list this week is mostly buckling down with my third-to-last class. I also have a networking event tomorrow and, oh yea, I'm shooting a movie on Wednesday. I'm IN the movie! Maybe Devon can give me some pointers on what to wear 😉 It's a film my friend is producing. He's been making films for years, and he wants to send this one to SXSW. I'm not holding my breath, though. I've never acted before, so this should be interesting. My husband thinks I'm crazy. He's probably right 😉

Wendy

That computer discussion, last week, got me walking down memory lane. I remembered the first computer I ever got on.

It was the old Compaq "portable" that came out in the early 1980's. It was about the size of our desktops today and ran on DOS. It also had the BIG floppy disks. I didn't actually do any work on it, but I did learn how to use the computer with it.

What memories that brings…