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One of my favorite things to do online is read the massive amounts of interviews available. There's always a ton of information to be gleaned from them, and good interviews are full of brilliant ideas and tips. My favorite part about them are when they include life stories and lessons learned. One thing, though, that I've noticed is that the majority of people do not take the time to make their interviews look good. In my opinion, this is almost as essential as conducting a good Keep Reading »
I love WordPress. It's powerful, mostly efficient, and super easy to use. Every client I've ever had has always asked for one thing in particular: "I want to easily change things without going into the code." WordPress lets them do that. Today as I was building a client site who wanted to use image captions, I realized that I didn't like the way WordPress handles their captions. And from what I can tell, most theme developers overlook image captions in their designs as well, I suppose Keep Reading »
This is the third post in Brainstorming series. Read the first two posts here: 1. An Introduction to Brainstorming 2. Preparing for the Storm Before the first rainy season in Guatemala, the locals would tell me that I had never seen rain before. I, of course, was hesitant to believe seeing how I've been in some torrential downpours. When the first rains hit; however, I realized what the locals meant. Within minutes, the cement-lined streets quickly turned into rivers, filled with Keep Reading »
This post is the second post in the "How to Brainstorm for Success" series. If you missed the first post, check it out here: "How to Brainstorm for Success: Part 1 - An Introduction to Brainstorming" where we briefly discuss different brainstorming stages. Have you ever been laying down at night waiting to go to sleep, or been on a nice afternoon walk and the ideas just kept rushing into your head? I've been there way too many times. I love it when this happens, but what really drives me Keep Reading »
I'm amazed at how many work-a-holics there are in the world. Just today I read a blog post about a guy who was aggravated because he'd heard another man say he was just killing time. "How dare he!" the blog author thought as he considered clobbering the other man. "Doesn't he know that time is precious, and I don't have any of it? How dare he be unproductive and do nothing!" The blog author then proceeds to discuss all the things he does and how he as a serious businessman doesn't even have Keep Reading »
This is the first article in a 3-part (or more, YTBD) series about learning to brainstorm. When I was a kid, my siblings and I would frequently ride our bikes to the local store to buy penny candy (hooray for penny candy!). The store wasn’t too far from us, maybe an 8-minute ride one way. We’d hop on our bikes and tear down the country streets. We lived in a small town, and I loved it. On a rather sunny afternoon the moisture hung in the air, signaling that a storm was on its Keep Reading »
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