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Derek Magill on Activation over Awareness
Great stuff on marketing from my coworker Derek Magill: “Hold off on new marketing efforts and let’s fix your funnel first.” Oftentimes the most promising “marketing” strategy is not to focus on growing awareness and traffic, but in making the most of the existing awareness and traffic you already have. Read his full post here.…
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Ignore the Rules and Be True to Yourself
“Writers write every single day.” “If you aren’t writing code every day, you can’t call yourself a developer.” “The best in every field get up at 4am and start working by 6am after a workout and an hour of reading.” Rules are so fun to state. They make you look hardcore, driven, and disciplined. But…
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Cool writing prompt from Cheryl Strayed on the Tim Ferriss Show: Pull out your keychain and write about the history of each key. https://overcast.fm/+BmGWAa3Lc
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I just made a WordPress theme made to be used with Micro.blog. It is simple, minimalist, and includes a small tool to verify your site with Micro.blog. You can download or fork it here: https://github.com/cagrimmett/simplemicroblog-wp
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Testing out this Twitter cross-posting bot from http://micro.blog/cagrimmett
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Great Falls
Yesterday Amanda and I visited Great Falls in Paterson, NJ.
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Testing a new post from Micro.blog’s iOS app.
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Cooking Rice
I got a tip today from a Persian chef about cooking rice the Persian way: After it boils for a few minutes, drain and rinse it. Then put it back in the pot for 25 minutes. You get a nice crispy layer at the bottom and rice that is completely separated, not gummy.
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Leonard E. Read’s bookplate
Check out Leonard E. Read’s sweet bookplate that I found:
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Scratch your own itch
The best projects are ones that build something you want to use or solve a problem you actually have. They don’t need to be big or new. Almost every project starts out as small and a remix of something else. Then you take it and build on it.
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Creating Consistently
“Piece of pie.” — Donatello Creating is awesome. Creating consistently is even better. Here are some strategies for being consistent in your creative endeavors. I’ve spent the last month blogging every day, but this isn’t the first time I’ve regularly put stuff out online. I posted every single day in 2010 and I’ve averaged a post a…
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Creating Consistently
Creating is awesome. Creating consistently is even better. Here are some strategies for being consistent in your creative endeavors.
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Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Hudson River
1. The Hudson is a Tidal Estuary Twice a day the waters of the Atlantic rise higher than the levels of the Hudson. At high tide, salt water pushes up the Hudson, raising the water levels. When the tide goes back out, the Hudson switches back to its normal flow direction back out to sea. The…
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Why I Set Personal Deadlines
We all understand the importance of setting deadlines at work. Everything revolves around intentionally set deadlines and there are consequences if they aren’t met. Deadlines are a useful tool at work to keep progress moving forward. If there were no deadlines and no consequences for missing them, how many projects would realistically get done? Apply…
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Why I Set Personal Deadlines
We all understand the importance of setting deadlines at work. Everything revolves around intentionally set deadlines and there are consequences if they aren’t met. Deadlines are a useful tool at work to keep progress moving forward. If there were no deadlines and no consequences for missing them, how many projects would realistically get done?
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Running Zapier Actions During Business Hours Only
Two weeks ago I had a problem I wanted to solve with Zapier: Only running a particular Zapier action during business hours and delaying everything that happens outside of business hours until the next day. I tried multiple approaches to make this happen, but each one fell short: Filtering up front for business hours meant…
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HTML and CSS Basics for WordPress
Resources for WordPress users who want to use HTML and CSS to alter the structure, look, and feel of their themes, posts, and pages.
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When is the last time you sent a Thank You note?
Sending a thank you note is one of those pieces of common wisdom we always hear, yet an astonishingly low number of people actually do it.
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Yes, There are Stupid Questions
I field a lot of questions. I’m sure you do, too. In a single day I might get asked about technology recommendations, programming syntax, software integrations, business processes, locating files, and how to set up WordPress. I don’t mind answering these questions, and I try to do so quickly and politely. Here’s the kicker: At…