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We take a renaissance approach - super personal, artistic, and innovative, to ghostwriting, book coaching, interviewing, product naming, and all editorial matters.
We align with thought leaders who wish to make a difference in this world - consultants, SME business owners, or inspirational leaders in all fields. We cross the bridge from Concept to Manuscript, and from Manuscript to Market.
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Not a straight line of course. As entrepreneurs. and business owners of media publishing, marketing, and music related companies, we applied these skills to our hyper-personal communications business.
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Absolutely not and that is coming from somebody who owns and runs a PR agency. That’s like a hard sales call from a direct marketing agency somebody you don’t even know. How can you make a pitch to a company or a person that you know nothing about or haven’t had a personal conversation with? If...
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Absolutely not and that is coming from somebody who owns and runs a PR agency. That’s like a hard sales call from a direct marketing agency somebody you don’t even know. How can you make a pitch to a company or a person that you know nothing about or haven’t had a personal conversation with? If that company was not asked specifically to make a pitch I’drun away as fast as you can!
Gov. Abbott and his rethugnican sidekick Patrick are an abomination to this state and all small businesses who comprise over 88% of the business generated in Texas. They're power hungry money grabbing avarice will kill so many and deprive so many of their basic rights.
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Gov. Abbott and his rethugnican sidekick Patrick are an abomination to this state and all small businesses who comprise over 88% of the business generated in Texas. They're power hungry money grabbing avarice will kill so many and deprive so many of their basic rights.
I think you’ve answered your own question. If you’ve already left a position and are still terrified, my question is why are you doing it? That sounds like the worst thing one could ever do to themselves: take a job, no persist in a job they hate and expect different results!
Get out of that...
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I think you’ve answered your own question. If you’ve already left a position and are still terrified, my question is why are you doing it? That sounds like the worst thing one could ever do to themselves: take a job, no persist in a job they hate and expect different results!
Get out of that rut.
Find something where you do not have to interface with the public. Computer programming, organizational planning, engineering, design....there are hundreds of careers waiting to be filled for introverts just like you. Sales is definitely not one of them!
Dear one,
I fully understand your position and have some ideas which I hope you can benefit from. I’m going to be pretty direct with you based on my experience in moving into this market 7 years ago from NYC where there are a ton more people in the silver age bracket working and gainfully...
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Dear one,
I fully understand your position and have some ideas which I hope you can benefit from. I’m going to be pretty direct with you based on my experience in moving into this market 7 years ago from NYC where there are a ton more people in the silver age bracket working and gainfully employed
I don’t believe in age discrimination meaning I never put it in my own mind that there would be age discrimination against me. So rather than focusing on the negative and the reasons why someone wouldn’t hire you I would focus on your skills your strengths and all the reasons why they need you.
This subtle but very necessary shift will change your approach when going to meet people, whether at meet up groups, in social situations, and job interviews etc. and when you’re applying online. So while updating your resume and doing all the necessary tactical things is important more important is your mindset. Being discouraged brings you down and once you’re in that frame of mind it’s hard for anybody to be enthusiastic.
I suggest you look at your life’s skills and successes and go through all the periods and choose projects skills and outcomes that really made you happy. Make a list and then from there look Add job descriptions that include all the keywords from your own findings. If you still need some help I’d be more than happy to speak with you please feel free to reach out
Without you, the sole proprietor, your business may not function in the same way or at all since you've probably been the be-all-end-all for your clients over the years, meaning doing everything! If you do not have a commissioned sales team or even one great person who can take over that mantle...
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Without you, the sole proprietor, your business may not function in the same way or at all since you've probably been the be-all-end-all for your clients over the years, meaning doing everything! If you do not have a commissioned sales team or even one great person who can take over that mantle and then another part-time/freelancer to fulfill the order you may be heading for some rough waters. Try fiver.com, freelance organizations and your Linkedin connections to get ideas, recommendations and references. Good luck to you.
There is actually no protection over ideas unless you copy write them and even then it becomes a legal issue of whether or not you’re going to go after the competitor. Probably has a small business you don’t even have the budget to hire the right lawyer and even if you did the question next is is...
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There is actually no protection over ideas unless you copy write them and even then it becomes a legal issue of whether or not you’re going to go after the competitor. Probably has a small business you don’t even have the budget to hire the right lawyer and even if you did the question next is is it worth it the emotional hassle?
There is actually no protection over ideas unless you copy write them and even then it becomes a legal issue of whether or not you’re going to go after the competitor. Probably has a small business you don’t even have the budget to hire the right lawyer and even if you did the question next is is it worth it the emotional hassle?
That said I truly believe that if we have ideas for one thing we will have 10 ideas for the next ideas are the result of a creative mind and therefore there’s no stopping that.
When you say using your name in a twisted way that could be something for the courts again question is did you trademark your name is the name part of the logo is the logo when your name of a product or of your business or of both?
Thinking on the repercussions you may wish to change your company name depending on how far along you are in the business if it’s a product related how deep is your distribution channel etc. etc.
Making New Year’s resolutions is sort of like making a commitment to go to church both of which I really don’t adhere to. So basically what I’m saying here is that resolution should not be made for once a year make the resolution every day. Small ones microminiature ones and then count them Then...
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Making New Year’s resolutions is sort of like making a commitment to go to church both of which I really don’t adhere to. So basically what I’m saying here is that resolution should not be made for once a year make the resolution every day. Small ones microminiature ones and then count them Then you can reward yourself with a pat on the back or a glass of wine
It’s interesting how it is separated: marketing and social media. In my field social media is one slice of the marketing Pai so it should be a given in this day and age that it is part of your marketing pie. People mistake marketing and sales all the time so let me clarify. Marketing is the...
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It’s interesting how it is separated: marketing and social media. In my field social media is one slice of the marketing Pai so it should be a given in this day and age that it is part of your marketing pie. People mistake marketing and sales all the time so let me clarify. Marketing is the strategy that encompasses sales and non-sales. Public relations is the non-sales part of it. Public relations opens the door to customers keep Publix and the media and sales closes the door.
A great marketing program will encompass all the elements of a unified whole.
I am also sending out handwritten thank you cards to every single client vendor and supplier or freelancer that I hired over the last year
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I am also sending out handwritten thank you cards to every single client vendor and supplier or freelancer that I hired over the last year
I have never worked for anyone my entire career. That said, one works with colleagues and clients and customers. So why did I start my business? It never ended. It transformed itself into a different model than I had in the past. I owned a talent and booking agency for punk rock musicians. That...
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I have never worked for anyone my entire career. That said, one works with colleagues and clients and customers. So why did I start my business? It never ended. It transformed itself into a different model than I had in the past. I owned a talent and booking agency for punk rock musicians. That morphed into a PR and branding agency and the last business I owned was a digital publishing house specializing in travel guides.
I reverted back to how I began it all; a one-woman shop, as my priorities changed. I no longer wanted to manage a huge team (80 at its heyday), nor run a corporate entity (lean and mean is my speed) or answer to shareholders and a BoD. I started this so I could handpick and choose the clients that I resonate with to create beauty in the world and boost their vision of a better world.
