Tag: best practices

  • A Reflection on Walking Dogs & My Writing Life

    I am a temporary “dog owner”: At least for the next ten days. I offered to help dear friends out and “volunteered” my daughter (who LOVES dogs) to watch a small, well-behaved and rambunctious Daschund named “Lily.” (My daughter is happy happy, for she loves “dogs and cats” that much.) Lily, isn’t trouble or very…

  • A Writing Coach's Credo

    As a Writing Coach and Catalyst, I use each interaction I have with you to leave you feeling supported, to instill confidence and ultimately help you accomplish your writing goals. With gentle candor and honesty and compassion, in tandem with my self-confidence and writing experience I will earn your trust and establish rapport, so that…

  • Authentic Writing: May the Buddha in You Shine

    Please stop trying to be clever. How about being real? I’ve got a question I’m really hoping a reader or two answers: Where did you learn how to writing business and marketing copy? I invite you to pause and think about the origins of your beliefs about what makes for good messaging and ask yourself…

  • Krysta Gibson's Perspective: Can Social Media Grow Your Business?

    A Guest Blog by Krysta Gibson of New Spirit Journal: Social Media is a great tool, and used wisely, with consistency, and in alignment with you and your values, in time yields positive results, new alliances, new business, and grows one’s personal and business networks. Are you “befriending” this technology that is here to stay…

  • Social Networking: Am I Still Wasting Time?

    The immediacy of all things related to social media and the many new apps and options being birthed practically daily are dizzying: like bright shiny objects we can’t seem to get enough of. Trendy time killers for some and tactical tools for others. There is a learning curve, hence we play with new stuff if…