"A writer should always feel like he’s in over his head," says Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham in O Magazine. Cunningham has advice for writers that I think all bloggers need to hear: "You can’t bore people – ever!"We business bloggers love to write, but we sometimes forget online searchers don’t generally like to read. […]
"We know life isn’t like the movies," says July’s O Magazine, reviewing four "chick flicks". Still, "O" apparently thought there might be lessons to be learned at the movies after all, going on to ask Philadelphia-based psychologist and author Dr. Judith Sills for her opinion on how the films’ messages hold up in real life. […]
Solve a problem, own the customer, sales trainers like to say. Come to think about it, all the inventions that make our modern lives possible grew out of finding solutions to problems. Mental Floss Magazine reminds us of four examples. Scroll back the 1830’s. Elias Howe Jr.’s nightmare about cannibals attacking him resulted in his […]
Sometimes I find my Say It For You blog posts taking on a "’Dear Rhoda’-advice-column cast. (With 25 years of ‘Dear Rhoda’ financial advice columns under my belt, the format has a natural feel for advice on business blogging.) Today, I thought I’d model the post after the "More Ways To Save" section in last […]
By the time they are young women, East African girls can carry up to 25% of their body weight on their heads, according to Don Vorhees, author of The Book of Totally Useless Information. The amazing thing is, those young women do this using no more energy than it would take to wear a straw […]
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