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All Past Blog Entries

• Zero is Always an Option
• Stop! You’re Confusing Your Customers and Turning Them Away
• 5 Reasons Why You Are Not Achieving Your Goals
• How Your Product Shots Can Make or Break You
• What All Successful Businesses Have In Common
• How to Promote Without Feeling Like a Dirty Bag of Hookers
• Your Products Look Terrible…And You’re Losing a Ton of Money
• Why You Should Not “Just Launch It”
• Why giving up coffee is the wrong way to make money
• On Being Superman
• Fear, Part 2: Mitigating Fear To Live Life
• Fear, Part I: Please Fire Your Life-Coach If They Say This Garbage
• The Dangers of Subscriberitis and How to Cure It
• 8 ways to improve upon old and stolen blog posts
• When It’s Okay to Let Your Business Fail
• How Writing Advice is Killing Your Writing, Part 2 – Personality
• How simplifying your website will increase conversions and make you more money
• How Writing Advice is Killing Your Writing – Part 1
• Tired of needing advice? Here’s one way to stop it forever.
• How to Become Professional at Anything
• Giving people what they want
• How Do You Fix it When You Utterly Screw Up Your Business and Lose Customers?
• How Much of Your Personality Should You Show, and How Will it Affect Business?
• Homelessness Part 2 – Conversations with the Homeless
• Homelessness Part I – Why I Don’t Give Money to Homeless Folks
• The one where brains leaked from my head
• Dear A-Hole: Someone stole my shit. I must be famous.
• Forget what you want to be. What do you want to have?
• Ignite Living is Updated
• Aesthetics – Because People Do Judge by the Cover
• 5 Reasons Your To-do Lists Might not be Helping Very Much
• What would your childhood think of you now?
• How to act when “you’re all that”
• Dear A-Hole: Hey, you! Social media person! Do you even know what “social” means?
• Why we need you
• 7 ways to turn nibbles into bites and land more clients
• Punching the critics in the head
• My biggest and most important business “secret”
• If your consultant is saying this, please fire them
• What to do when fear starts calling the shots
• Do you have “look over there!” syndrome?
• A new look for ignite living and plans for the future
• My year making a living as an artist
• The Problem with Facebook
• Why people are unfollowing you on twitter
• How to network without feeling like a dirty scumbag
• Industriousness, fat cash and you. Oh, and not being an idiot if you work in payroll.
• Your money, voodoo and the leprechauns
• What is life?
• Consulting Case Study: How $19,000 becomes invisible
• What promotion really is and how you can do it anywhere and everywhere
• The truth about paying your dues and “getting lucky”
• How to write a tagline way better than Microsoft
• To School or Not to School
• Are you one of the tractionless?
• The “secret” of lasting web traffic
• Doom and Gloom, or Your Time to Shine?
• Welcome to Ignite Living, 2009 Version
• How to Choose Advertising for Your Site, Part 7: Advertise Yourself
• How to Choose Advertising for Your Site, Part 6: Don’t Settle For Average
• How to Choose Advertising for Your Site, Part 5: Double Your Ad Income With Upsells
• How to Choose Advertising for Your Site, Part 4: Quantity vs. Quality
• How to Choose Advertising for Your Site, Part 3: Don’t Stray Too Far
• How to Choose Advertising for Your Site, Part 2: Annoyance Factor
• How to Choose Advertising for Your Site, Part 1: Quality Control
• Should You Have Advertising on Your Site or Not?
• What a Lousy Blackjack Dealer Taught me About Customer Service
• How to Make $3,400 While on Vacation
• 8 things about me that won’t improve your day
• There are Only Four Business Styles. Which is Yours?
• Productivity Blogs, Hypocrisy and Me Just Generally Getting Some Things Off My Chest
• The Internet. Now with Tartar Control.
• Girl Scout Marketing
• Branding for people who aren’t toilet paper
• Life Myths #2 – You need to swallow your pride
• How to take criticism like a champ. Or not at all.
• Life Myths #1 – Do what you love and the money will follow
• Anti-GTD advice: Managing your email and good customer service
• The 2 Reasons Your Life and Business Aren’t Expanding, Part 2: Delegation
• The 2 Reasons Your Life and Business Aren’t Expanding, Part 1: Waste
• The worst website ever built – get yours now!
• Are your freebies scaring away new customers?
• Thank you
• You’ll like what Ignite Living has planned for 2008
• Some poor schmuck just lost $77
• The job interview that never was
• RSS Hugger – an experiment in growth
• A Human’s Guide to Freelance Living – FREE New Ebook!
• How to get testimonials from your clients
• Do you need testimonials as a freelancer?
• How to put together a portfolio when you’ve never had clients
• Two Things I Depend on For Freelance Commissions
• How to Make Your Writing More Visually Appealing
• 5 Ways You Can Properly Set Attainable Goals
• The Number One Way to Never Achieve Your Goals