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How I Wrote a Bestselling Ebook in Less Than a Month

April and May were absolutely bonkers for me.

I went on four trips in six weeks (one a two-week trip to Florida, including Disney, which is crazy in and of itself), I had a webinar that was so successful it crashed my website, I created all my launch content for Content Intelligence Academy — oh, and I wrote a bestselling ebook.

See? Crazy.

What happened was this: Sometime in April, my mentor Tara Gentile put out a call for people who might be interested in writing a book to come be …

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Quiet Power Strategy Summit 2016

Quiet Power Strategy Summit 2016: Big Ideas and Smaller Plans

It’s pretty fitting that my first experience with Tara Gentile was when her program was called 10,000 Feet, because I’m writing this blog post at about 30,000 feet on my way home from Tara’s first ever Quiet Power Strategy Summit.

A couple of weekends ago, I found myself answering client emails on a Saturday, when suddenly I stopped myself and instead scheduled the email to send first thing Monday morning. Why wait when it was already written? Because you teach people how to treat you, and by …

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Run your own planning retreat for your business with these resources.

How to Have Planning Retreat for Your Business Any Time

In case you don’t know this about me yet, I *LOVE* to make plans.

I am a type-A list-maker, checker-offer, planner-loving freakazoid. 

So it makes total sense that my idea of an awesome vacation? Is a planning retreat with my mastermind buddies.  (I know. I’m a huge dork.)

That’s us at 10,000 Waves spa in Santa Fe last February, where we had just relaxed and detoxed after a day of working and planning. (Are we cute, or what??)

We were lucky enough to be able to do a planning retreat on the cheap; …

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Is Blogging Dead?

Last week, Darren Rowse’s excellent blog, Problogger, ran an interview with dooce, the “Queen of the Mommy Bloggers” about her decision to “quit blogging.”

And it stirred up quite the sh*tstorm in many of the communities I frequent. There were at least three posts I saw in a single community, people were Periscoping about it. It was a thing.

(I actually got drawn into a slightly heated debate about it in one community; the other woman was VERY intent on proving me wrong!)

Obviously, I have pretty strong opinions on this myself, starting …

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