In June of 1995, I joined a $9Million company that was losing 10% per year. I was part of team that was determined to turn it around. My job was to write the strategic plan. In July or 1998, we sold that company for $35Million.
We did that because of a 5 step strategy.
The same strategy can work in almost any situation of your business, career, even your life.
For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Question.
A blogger friend, a great writer and thinker, someone who contributes thoughts, insights, and enthusiasm to every blog conversation you seem to be part of, has shared via email a problem at home. His significant other — a girlfriend of six months — has laid down an ultimatum.
He gives up the blog, or it’s the road for her.
She say’s it’s not the time he spends. He’s great about paying attention to his real-life commitments. She doesn’t like the idea that he has conversations that she’s not part of, and she has no interest in finding out why he enjoys blogging so much.
How do you respond?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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If you’re not familiar with seomoz, you might spend part of your next 10 weekends getting to know their wonderful site.
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Content: seomoz has posted another winner. The 21 points in this list are straightforward, well-written, and make total sense. Points such as launch with comments closed, waiting to open them until you have readers are proof that randfish, the writer, not only has experience, but also put his best thoughts and practices into this post. This is one I’ve already bookmarked and put in a place where I’ll go back to review it when I need to check myself. Click the title to read the article.
Thanks, seomoz.org.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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HaveLapTopWillTravel.com went live on June 3, 1999 as the personal site of me, SeanRox, to have a place to post random thoughts, rants, jokes and photos, all hand coded and static.
Since that time, it’s no longer a static site. It’s now a database powered with the same content and has grown into a place for me to review technology, movies, music and to let people know what’s new and exciting around the world. Have Laptop Will Travel still reflects my fun, easy-going attitude which is who I am, a laid-back geek with social skills, who enjoys geektastic toys and likes to give people a hard time. If I like you, I needle you but it’s all in good fun. I’m a nice guy, really.
I hope the above helps motivate and stimulate your brain… that’s what I like to do, get people thinking.
Notes from Liz: When SeanRox and I had our first conversation about relationship blogging, he told me about a post in which he asked his readers whether he should be the next James Bond, and about two other posts in which he and his readers discussed two laptop art projects — one involving a dollar bill collection he’s started and a second that updated both the stencils rocking the cover of his laptop and the tech advances going on inside. SeanRox’s extensive background in computers also means that he knows what he’s talking about when he decides he talking tech.
The cool part is that what he says about being a fun, easy-going, laid-back geek with social skills is also true. He proved it when he stopped by Open Comment Night with food for everyone and lots to add! Can’t help but like a blogger like that.
Whether he’s talking movies, tech, geek toys, instant messaging, hacking, or about his dog, SeanRox has a way of making what he says fun to read. Take a look and tell him that I said I need a picture first before I decide on that James Bond thing. They’ve already chosen the new guy for this time around, so I don’t suppose he’s waiting on me anyway. . . .
Thanks, SeanRox, for all of the conversation that makes you part of Successful Blog.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Some people say “It’s smart to be lucky.”
My favorite boss used to say, “I’d rather be lucky to be smart.”
I’ve always said, “You don’t need luck, if you can make good things happen.”
Everyone hears about someone who has all the luck. That person who is “in the right place at the right time — almost all of the darn time. How does that someone do that?
It’s not fate. It’s not an accident. It’s not even a lucky star.
That someone knows how to make good things happen.
It’s not hard — change some things and it could be you.
I wrote a post this morning as part of a series at LizStrauss[dot]com. It may be of use to some readers here. It’s for folks who’ve not started blogging. Click the title to access it.
Should I submit this to be an official SOB? I’ll have to ask myself whether I participate enough in the dialogue . . .
