Why people are unfollowing you on twitter

In which Charlie reveals why people might be dropping you from their Twitter lists like you’re a poisonous puffer fish coated in hot lava and rabid Saint Bernard slobber. I‘m sure there are an infinite number of reasons why people might choose to drop you from their Twitter lists. I’m sure someone, sometime, with no [...]

Industriousness, fat cash and you. Oh, and not being an idiot if you work in payroll.

Welcome to part one of Ignite Living’s “Why You Owe it to Yourself to be an Entrepreneur” series. In this series we’re going to explore…guess what? That’s right. Why you owe it to yourself to be an entrepreneur. We’re gonna start this series off with a subject that’s very close to our hearts, stomachs and [...]

Consulting Case Study: How $19,000 becomes invisible

Question: If you were about to flush $19,000 down the drain, would you know it? The question up there is a serious one. If there were a division of your company that brought in roughly $19,000 a month, would you keep it going? Shut it down? Would you even know it was pulling in that [...]

What promotion really is and how you can do it anywhere and everywhere

Promote : to help or encourage to exist or flourish When you think of promotion do you automatically start thinking about advertising, posters or banner ads? Perhaps you think of sending out 1,000 pieces of direct mail or physically knocking on doors. Or maybe that hairy naked dude who stands on the street corner downtown [...]

Should You Have Advertising on Your Site or Not?

There are two schools of thought when it comes to the on-site advertising issue. Luckily, one of the schools only goes up through kindergarten. A lot of website owners struggle with the idea of monetizing their sites, especially when it comes to advertising. They want the income of ads, but not the clutter. And some [...]

There are Only Four Business Styles. Which is Yours?

Your customer has money and you want it. You have a service or product for sale and your customer wants that. Somewhere between those two is a seemingly delicate balance of who delivers what and for how much money. I say a “seemingly” delicate balance because in truth there’s only one way to intelligently run [...]

Productivity Blogs, Hypocrisy and Me Just Generally Getting Some Things Off My Chest

No, I’m not yelling at you, my readers, I’m just yelling. Even us happy cheery fellows can get mighty pissed. For the past who knows how long, I’ve been deleting RSS feeds from my aggregator. The first ones to go are the “how to be productive” ones, or the “63 new productivity apps that will [...]

The Internet. Now with Tartar Control.

I think every time I buy toothpaste I buy a different type. I can’t remember from tube to tube which brand I owned before, so every time I go to the market I have to look at 120 boxes all over again. Every single time. In fact, the only specific tooth product I can think [...]

Girl Scout Marketing

Peruse the Marketing section of your local bookstore and you’ll see a lot of titles and some unusual pairings. Guerrilla Marketing, Punk Marketing, Pyro Marketing…the list goes on. These are not bad books and if they were I wouldn’t say so, at least not now, as this post is not intended to be a review. [...]

Anti-GTD advice: Managing your email and good customer service

You may be productive but your customer service blows I don’t check my email every hour or four as GTD specialists seem to recommend. I never check it at all because my email is always up and it checks itself every minute. I use the Gmail/Google Notifier combo and when someone writes, a little window [...]