When I first started, my websites sucked. It’s taken me 13 years and I think I show some marginal improvement.
A Failure To Communicate
Business Storytelling: Get Your Website Done Right
Knowledge is the best defense to jerk-asses who want to take your money and dumb-asses who don’t know their trade.
My Business Story: I Aim to Misbehave
I Aim to Misbehave. It’s high time for a new kind of storytelling in business. I thought of myself for a long time as The Geek Superhero. The more I think about it, the more I realize I’m telling the stories of business superheroes every day. I’m going to dedicate my professional life to re-direct attention to the people and products that matter and away from the businesses that treat us poorly and waste our time. Color me a web marketing Robin Hood. All that’s left is to fight a pair of tights.
Five Types of Punks and What To Do About Them
Getting stuck because of another person sucks. And it sucks more when that person is an punk. Here are a few of the ones I’ve encountered and how to deal with them.
Why Freelancers Get Jaded: A Tale of Two Non-Clients
Trust your instincts – they’re finely-honed senses dedicated to protecting your ass from the tiger (or client) about to eat you.
A Toolkit For Bitchslapping
Having been born with the ability to deliver a fierce written bitchslap – the likes of which is now feared on three continents – I tilted at quite a few windmills of perceived wrong in my time
An Open Letter To 99.9 FM: Ad-Free?
Before you start high-fiving yourself too hard for this amazing act of generosity to your listeners – consider doing something that requires some element of risk on your part.
The Opposite of Gratitude – The 2% Grudge
Make a note that when you see The 2% Grudge emerge, you should kindly ask your fellow business owner to pull their head out of their ass. (Unless you, you know, want them to fail).
Learning To Say No
I’m going to start asking myself, does this make me feel like a WHORE?
Loathing Abundance
What are the last three insults you heard? I bet at least one ended with -bag. Something was so awful, it required an entire container to hold the suck in.