business

  • Goals Galore!

    It’s finally starting to feel like winter here in the Chicago area; we’re getting those inevitably bitter cold winds and I have a great view outside my window of the prettiest snow falling over the Berwyn bungalows. Cats are curled up and sleeping on the backs of chairs (or, if you’re Genghis, inside someone’s jacket…

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  • Back to Business.

    Writing, especially in the independent field, is a business. And a business will pretty much go to crap if you don’t tend to it, keep it up, strive to accomplish more and more and more, and generally WORK. Unfortunately, writing is usually not a business that helps you pay your bills right away, so there’s…

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  • “So maybe you don’t need to think out of the box. Maybe you just need a new one to think in.” “The Myth of the Garage” by Chip and Dan Heath Everyone’s probably familiar with the adage that claims that you get what you pay for. Working in sales, I’ve been known to say it…

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