Thank You, U.S. Armed Forces

Memorial Day, 2009

To all American servicemen and servicewomen past and present, thank you for your sacrifices.

News and Thank You’s

SOBCon09 - Speaking, Supplemental Podcast
Stephen Smith and I will be giving a presentation at SOBCon on Friday, May 1 - Writing for the Web - Inside and Out. We’ll be talking about how to tune up your website for human readers and search engines. Learn more and listen to our supplemental podcast. If you’re going to SOBCon - look forward to meeting you! It’s shaping up to be a phenomenal event.

Say Hello to Kay Plantes
Kay Plantes is a brilliant business model innovation consultant, author of Beyond Price, a client - and a new blogger. She just launched her blog, which poses challenging…

Exciting New Resource for Chicago Entrepreneurs

The life of an entrepreneur can be cold, cruel, and lonely. But have no fear - Big Ooga is here.

My oft-time collaborator and sometimes client Lennie Rose launched the Big Ooga in October, 2008. Big Ooga is a fantastic new online business model that enables entrepreneurs to find help and/or market themselves. Just as important, Big Ooga promises to be a community where we can build deep and enduring business relationships. In Lennie’s words -

The Big Ooga™ is a pre-qualified, referral-based resource designed to connect entrepreneurs with the companies they need to succeed. Filled with treasured referrals and tried and…

Business Goals for 2009

Like most bloggers, I like to hit the new year with a new plan. Here it is.

Concentrate on the packaging industry and B2B. That’s where my experience is, and I think the time has come where packaging companies and industrial companies in general are ready for social media marketing. First, social media is no longer a mystery. Second, firms in the packaging sector are using social media with great success, including a few of my clients I’m happy to say. Third, companies are searching as never before for new ways to reach prospects. I’ve created a new Packaging Industry Marketing Services web…

News, Observations, and a Question or Two

Today I have a guest post on business ethics in the trenches over at Good Honest Dollar $$. It’s one of my favorite blogs, all about business ethics. Andrew is a superb writer and I’m honored to be there.
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Last week, I had a guest post at Joanna Young’s Confident Writing. Thanks, Joanna. The topic was writing experiments. I wrote about my idea lab, Scrambled Toast, a humor blog I’m currently trying to revitalize with Robert Hruzek and Free SEO Services Guy, George Ajazi.
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Our Cell Phone Users and Abusers Group Blog Project is underway. If you need $50 to $500 for Christmas shopping, enter!…

Do You Want to Win $500?

Would you like to win $50?

How about $100?

How about $500?

Check in tomorrow and learn how.

Tell your friends.

We will be announcing a blog contest.

Requirements for participation -

1. You must use a cell phone
2. You must know at least one person who uses a cell phone

Bloggers - Can You Help the Poor with Two Cents a Word?

Inspired by Blog Action Day and on behalf of the Joyful Jubilant Learning community, David Zinger created a program where we bloggers can help the poor by donating two cents for every word we write between October 26 and November 1. Click on the badge below for detail -

This is the ultimate democratic charity drive. Whatever you pledge is yours to donate to the charity of your choice.

Sometimes I wonder if words really matter - talk is cheap and all that. But David’s come up with a fantastic way for us to turn our words into action.

Please help us spread…

Never a Dull Moment - 3 News Items from Word Sell

1. Joyful Jubilation

Last week I became an official contributor to Joyful Jubilant Learning, a really fun community learning blog you should check out if you’re not familiar with it. It was quite an honor and look forward to stretching my mind reading and writing. (A complete list of JJL community contributors appears at the bottom of this post.)
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2. Word Sell Cartoon Appears in Magazine’s Premier Issue

The premiere issue of STRATEGY magazine hit the newsstand this month, and my cartoon appears on page 20 –

Very cool magazine and Web site, and I’m glad to be part of it, albeit a very small…

Bits and Pieces of Word Sell News

All-Star Guest Authors Coming in Late August!

There’s an outstanding lineup of guest authors helping me out the last week of August. I’m very excited and honored to have them here –

• Robert Hruzek, Middle Zone Musings, is a friend, a master storyteller, and an acute observer of the human condition. I can’t wait to see what he’s cooking up for us.
• Karen Swim, Words for Hire, is a blogger I’m thankful I’ve gotten to know. She writes with passion about topics that get our hearts and minds moving in the right direction.
• Joanna Young, Confident Writing, has been a great friend almost from…

Word Sell News Bits - Welcome, Words, and Guest Authors

Welcome, New Visitors!
First of all, welcome new readers who may (or may not) be here as a result of recent and very generous projects conducted by Darren Rowse and Liz Strauss.

If you are new, you can learn about the Word Sell blog here. Here’s a recent post on writing that mixes business and pleasure (something we like to do here). Here’s another recent post about writing blog post headlines, quite a bit more serious and hopefully containing information you can use.

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