Celebrate with me! Pay what you want until my birthday!
I woke up with a crazy idea this morning. Why? Well, for one, I’m turning 40 in a week. I’ve been excited about turning 40 for about 15 years. As crazy as it seems, it’s true. Plus, I want to share the love because I enjoy my Twitter friends so much, because they enrich my [...]
Read MoreTwo Vegetarians Travel 6,000 Miles for BBQ
After finishing touches on cleaning the house so that my lovely friend/cat sitter/*employee doesn’t judge me too harshly, we finally pack in the dogs and hit the road. These vegetarians are traveling 6,000 miles to take a loved on to Corky’s BBQ in Memphis just in time to celebrate a milestone. As many of you [...]
Read MoreWhere’s my paparazzi? Writing the press release
Ah…those glowing gems of media wonder, the often hated, but yet beloved press releases. Pen the right words to get the grand prize: a media interview. Being recognized in a positive light by the local media is an efficient way to share information about your business to a broad audience of people. A good press [...]
Read MoreWhat’s sweet? Making friends while marketing!
They say you can tell what kind of person you are by the friends you keep. Well, I know that I have been doing something right. I look around, and throughout my personal and my professional life, I am surrounded by truly wonderful, beautiful, intelligent, gorgeous human beings. Although marketing can be a chore, a [...]
Read More5 New Year’s Resolutions for Business
I get it. Believe me. Year end and year begin can be overwhelming. Tying up the loose ends for 2010 and planning and organizing for 2011 can be, well, paralyzing at times. Besides running our businesses, we have lives, right? Right? Family, interest, favorite television shows? With this in mind, let’s concentrate on getting control [...]
Read MoreA Day in the Life…of a Leader
Ah, the leadership verses management argument. It appears that many think the two roles synonymous. However, each takes a distinct skill set. If desiring a crash course in leadership, I highly recommend the reading “The One-Minute Manger,” “High Five: The Magic of Working Together” and “Gung Ho! Turn on the People in Any Organization.” Much [...]
Read MoreBaring It All (No not that way): Transforming What Hurts to What Helps
The first time I peeled back the cover of the book, “Succulent Wild Woman” in the nineties, I became an avid fan of SARK. Unabandoned self-acceptance resonates deeply within me in both my personal life and my business endeavors. So, after receiving an emailed challenge to transform something that hurt into something that helped, I [...]
Read MoreChanges in Attitudes; Changes in…Marketing?
If for some reason you’ve missed the myriad of articles, all you have to do is look around to know that marketing has really changed in last few years. Customers now want to see the people behind the business, the process. There is now a tight rope to walk between professional and personal. I’m happy [...]
Read MoreIdentification for Brand Success
For some businesses, sales come easily. They sell a product that people either need or love, and in turn make quite a profit. Most of us, however, have to work for our sales. We have to struggle to convince consumers that our product or service can truly enhance their lives.
Read MoreHoly Heck! I’m On Live: Tips for Conducting a Media Interview
This week, I’m going to highlight how to comfortably maneuver your way through media interviews as shy people. (However, I would love to make this interactive, so please don’t hesitate to join the discussion on the Facebook fan page or start one in the blogs comment section.) If you’ve read my book, you know that [...]
Read MoreRetweet to Win “You Want Me to What?”
For marketing or public relations professionals, as well as entrepreneurs, who have yet to read “You Want Me to What? Public Relations and Marketing for the Shy Person,” I am offering a wonderful chance to win a copy. Because I want to see everyone succeed while staying true to themselves, and because I need some [...]
Read MoreStick it to ‘Em
The Post-it® Note is 30 years old. Although I get giddy just walking into an office supply store, I have to admit, sticky notes make my heart go aflutter. In college, I would write stacks of notes and cover the doors of friends’ dorm rooms to offer encouragement or birthday greetings. As my responsibility levels [...]
Read MoreWhy I Wrote “You Want Me to What? Public Relations and Marketing for the Shy Person”
When I accepted my first marketing job well over a decade ago, I immediately hit the bookstores to educate myself. Just reading through the titles, made me want to drop the books and run from the store. There were two problems with this, however. I’m painfully shy. I don’t really like to draw any unnecessary [...]
Read MoreFacing the Fear of Failure or Rejection
Whenever trying something new, or in case of the shy businessperson, meeting someone new, the fear of failure or rejection can be almost paralyzing. Although, upon occasion, I have found the fear to expedite my retreat having literally run out of a chamber of commerce meeting and off of a stage where I was the [...]
Read MoreThree Tech Innovations for Shy People in Marketing & P.R.
As business people, we know that networking, meaning meeting new people, is important. We have no doubts. As shy people, however, we cringe at the thought of these interactions even though we know many of these people are absolutely wonderful, fabulous really. Well, it is time to dance for joy because innovation is making our [...]
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