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Virtual Courage
I have a friend who’s taking her first tentative steps into the world of small business. She has an excellent product and the talent and skills to make it shine. I also know she has a lot of drive and...
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How To Help Your Provider Help You
The relationship between client and service provider is a two way street. A lot has been written about how your provider can help you better, but what about how you can help your provider to help you?...
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Site Critique: Michelle Pier’s Creative Indeed
Michelle Pier is among the most creative, talented people we know. She’s a prolific painter, a savvy businesswoman, and is on a mission to liven up the world and everyone in it with purpose, joy and...
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Who Is Your Site For?
You’ve just launched your brand new site. It’s beautiful. You had the designer use all your favorite colors. The photo you took last year at the ocean makes a great banner. You even have some nifty...
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A World of Inspiration
So…you’re considering a new website for you business, are you? There’s a lot involved, but the hardest part for most of our clients is defining that feel, that essence of their look. They know what...
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The Comfort Zone
Over the course of our careers we have plenty of shining moments. I’m sure if you look back, you’ll find a few that make you smile. For me, my biggest shining moment was when I held our first hard...
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Don’t Make Your Website Visitors Play Hide And Seek
Once upon a time, in an interwebs galaxy not too far away, people didn’t post pictures of themselves, or use their real names or—heaven forbid—put any kind of contact information whatsoever on their...
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Find Your Center: Business Lessons From Rise of the Guardians
I absolutely luvs me some movies. Action, adventure, drama, comedy, the occasional chick flick…and yes, even musicals. You would think, that as an author, I’d spend my spare time reading books. Truth...
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Back to School For Your Business!
At this time of year, back to school is on a lot of minds. For parents, many of you are getting your kids ready for grade school, high school or college. For parents who own businesses, it’s time for...
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10 Common Cover Mistakes
Every day, new authors try their hand at creating their own covers. Some succeed. Either they have a good eye for composition or they got lucky. Others? Not so much. As a reader, you may not know...
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Are You Talking At or Talking To Your Audience?
Communication is easier than ever before. We carry amazing phones that are miniature computers in our pockets. We have desktops and laptops from which we Skype, instant message, email and keep in touch...
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The Nature of Color
Nature inspires art in so many ways. Whether we experience a Sedona or Maui sunset in person or see a stunning image while surfing the net, landscapes, animals, plants and the rest of the world around...
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Blogging Basics: The Comment Section
Wendi and I have been blogging for so long we’ sometimes forget what it’s like to be a newbie. Tasks like posting, sharing and commenting we do like breathing air. But for those of you new to the...
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Good Examples of Bad Book Covers
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is moving into its second week. By now, thousands of writers are deep into their personal novel writing marathons with visions of bestsellers dancing in their...
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The Art of Blogging Conversation
Imagine this: You were comfortably lounging on your sofa with a bag of chips and a bowl of ice cream the size of the family pasta dish. You have your ripped sweatpants on and no bra. The TV is playing...
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There Is No Secret Ingredient
*pssst* C’mere. Yeah, you sitting over there searching for the Meaning of Life on the internet. How many times a day do you see messages fly by on your favorite social network beckoning you to buy...
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Out of the Comfort Zone with Some Daily Love
Deb and Mastin. This week has been full of new and exciting things here at Blue Sun. First, which I’m sure you couldn’t help but notice, is our brand-spankin’ new look. For the past year or so Wendi...
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The Buzz Around the Studio
Time sure flies and we are soaring into 2014. Lots and lots of news. The biggest news is our fourth and final book in the Bonds of Blood & Spirit Saga is FINISHED! We competed it at 11:59 pm on...
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When is a Book Not a Book?
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum a couple weeks ago when we went to Amazon to check the status on the paperback version of Legacies. Apparently, Amazon thought Legacies was such a HUGE...
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What Have You Done Lately?
From left to right: Joy Chudacoff, James Roche and Ali Brown This past weekend, Wendi and I flew out to Los Angeles to spend a few days with our Elevate sisters. Let me tell you, the Elevate Connection...
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