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Improving Brighton Boulevard

  Lots of interesting improvements are on the horizon for Brighton Blvd in Denver. Pretty interesting report to look through. Brighton Boulevard: Managing Traffic while Creating Place | Context Sensitive Solutions.org – A CSS support center for the transportation community..

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jyoseph.com » Make your product photos pop with a white background using photoshop

  I was taking some product shots this week – and this was a great guide for what to do after you take your mediocre shots: jyoseph.com » Make your product photos pop with a white background using photoshop.

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The Lizard Brain

More on the theme of doing stuff, vs thinking about doing stuff. Re-discovered this today: About this presentation Bestselling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin outlines a common creative affliction: sabotaging our projects just before we show them to the world. Godin targets our “lizard brain” as the source of these primal doubts, and implores us [...]

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Update on my projects

Besides my full-time job, and I am also always working on several side projects. In the last several weeks, there’ve been two that have been eating up most of my free time: tutoring and honey. My tutoring company, No Excuses Tutoring, has had an unexpected bump in activity recently. I had several web leads that [...]

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Inside Sales Analytics, Tracking Daily Activity

As a data geek who’s recently switched careers into sales, I can’t help but think about analytics in my new role as a Lead Gen Rep. To me data is crucial in understanding what’s effective and what’s not. So, I decided to be really diligent about keeping track of everything I do on a daily [...]

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Business ideas are cheap

I was talking about startups and business ideas with a co-worker yesterday, and was amused when he suggested that I keep my business idea private because he thought it was a good one. Being secretive with a business idea seems to be the initial gut reaction of most people I meet. The reality of course [...]

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Asking for time in a business call

When making a business call, whether it’s cold or warm, I’ve learned to always ask for the person’s time before bothering with whatever I have to say. I find it a professional, and a polite thing to do. But it’s a surprising easy question to mess up. Word Choice For one thing, the words you [...]

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Change of direction at No Excuses Tutoring

Check out my post about the change of direction at No Excuses Tutoring.

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Email Marketing, without permission

For the last two months, for the first time in my life, I’ve been actively involved in marketing activities of a startup company and one of the main issues I’ve found myself grappling with is email marketing. First, let’s acknowledge that email marketing is really easy: Buy a list of contacts from a vendor Load [...]

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