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I promise to make this a non-partisan blog post.  Really! I’ve had the impeachment hearings on within earshot of my office all for the past few days.  I have to admit, I have a fascination with parliamentary procedures.  This comes from years of volunteering on various boards.  One time, the community council I participated in…

I’ve decided to change things up.  Fridays are no longer going to be official workdays for me.  I’m adopting the 4 day work week. As the year ends, I’m noticing what a crazy year it has been with the broken ankle, my aging parents and more travel than I’ve had in years.  But even with…

“It’s not the big things that add up in the end; it’s the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.” – Darren Hardy In 2015, I was overwhelmed with all the little things I was doing for my clients.  Before I had a care plan, I was frantically…

At the end of last year, I had the unfortunate experience of having a new client say they wanted to cancel their project.  They expected to have a website in 10 weeks and that didn’t happen.  Now, not sending the web designer any content other than a logo file might have contributed to the delay,…

You may or may not know that I had a previous career working in corporate retail.  I often think back to the time and remember when Rachel on Friends got a job as a buyers assistant at Ralph Lauren.  She would smoke just to hang out with her co-workers.  I never did this, but the…

For those of us that have been building websites for a few years, the pitch for trading services is the norm.  At least a couple of times a year, someone approaches me to do a website and in turn, I will get their services for something.  Sounds like a good deal, right?  Well, more often…