You're there...standing right in front of it, and it appears immovable. There's no way around it, and no way over it. Chances are you yourself have created the wall, so it's insidiously well-designed to foil any attempts to find a weakness. You know yourself too well. It's the agent (or agents)...
2011. Was it good to your business?...a "growth" year?...a "development" year?...the "payoff" year? Regardless, if you want to continue to build momentum into 2012, some 2011 housekeeping duties will put you in a good position for the New Year. Just a couple of items that come up about this time...
...and none of them are "green" reasons. Not that I don't believe in saving trees...I've just found other compelling arguments for eschewing stacks of studio paper. 1) Flatscreen monitors are felony cheap. I bought a 23" LG HDMI monitor at Fry's Electronics for $189. The deals get better every...
So funny that I got such a supportive response to yesterday's blog about Caring for your Cords. By the end of the day Tuesday, I was coming down with a sore throat. Ack! (self-fulfilling prophecy?) On top of that, I had a full load at the TV station, a ton of work to do in my VO studio, I'm...
Last week was a wash. Literally. I washed up on the shores of Belize, Isla Roatan, and Cozumel on a cruise ship excursion with my family, and two other families for a week. Yeah. Hate that. The picture of me there is on the beach at Passion Island North of Cozumel. 'An afternoon that I kinda...
Rather than wait to post this to my Amplify distribution channel TOMORROW...here I am at 3:15am....doing it now! See? It's already working! But, honestly, who can't benefit from a quick review of tips like this? My favorite is #5...Don't Over-committ. BIG problem left unchecked. Hope you can find...
Working two jobs can drive you crazy. In my case, the drive is revealing. One job is rigid. It has immutable deadlines. The pay is fixed. I work for someone else. They tell me what to do. I MUST get along with others. The other job personifies flexibility, finesse, and self-direction. ...
Michael Minetree is churnin' out the videos these days. I meant to get this particular video posted on my blog before I left for FaffCon. (this is why people ask me "When do you sleep?").Believe me, a week later it still offers plenty about how to eliminate noise in noisy environments as you...
My father got kidneystones. I occasionally do too. Yeah, they hurt. But I've managed to reduce their frequency by learning to drink water like a fish. Not cranberry juice, not soda, tea, coffee, milk, or energy drinks. Water. Lucky for me, the upside is I rarely get mouth clicks on my...
5 TIPS FOR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF DOWNTIME What happened? Every freelancer hits that wall. The work…just…stops. Nothing’s coming in. Leads are long gone, and clients are clamming up. Hopefully it’s just a day or two…a week or two at the most. You’d go crazy trying to figure out why. Sure, there...