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On the Hot Seat at Pioneer Nation
Photo courtesy of Chris Guillebeau An entrepreneur exists along the fine line between impostor and badass. Thankfully, at Pioneer Nation, I got to spend a few days with lots of other people on this fine line, too. (If you have not read about the Impostor Complex, go check it out. Come back to my blog later; compared to Tara Gentile's work, I'm totally lame.) And that is the point. Compared to other web designers, other content creators, and other videographers, my work is crap. When someone wants to hire [...]
The Merits of Failure
Danger Man was the greatest failure of my life. (And in a life as adventurous as mine, that's really saying something.) This week I entered the Don Quixote Windmill Contest, a video competition for a $10,000 prize. The hosts of the competition are looking for the Best Bad Idea. The purpose of the Quixote's Windmill Prize is to encourage the takers of chances, the facers of giants, the riders on the arms of windmills. Help me win this contest! Please like [...]
How to Find Copyright-Free Images For Your Blog Posts
Featured images for blog posts look great. Blog posts with featured images enhance visual appeal, increase clickthroughs, and augment the user experience on your blog. (With clever use of titles and ALT tags on each image, you can even boost your SEO.) It is really easy to find images online, and downloading them is a snap. But many bloggers don’t know what images they are allowed to use, and penalties for copyright infringement keep some bloggers from using any images [...]
An Open Letter to Alec Baldwin: Farewell.
Dear Mr. Baldwin: We are strangers, and in a more just world, we would remain so. Your recent farewell to public life has, I hope, cauterized the exposure of your personal life to the public eye, and I thank you for making this change. Since this is farewell, allow me the monumental hubris to speak for the public. Let me open with this disclaimer: I am a fan of your work. You are eloquent, audacious, and strong. I know that [...]
High Five! Custom Image Design With Your Emails
Recently a friend of mine moved to Ojai, and I wanted to reach out and make an impression. So I decided to send him an Ace of Sales Email Greeting and give him an ‘Ojai Five.’ Making this customized image only took a few minutes. I’ll walk you through how to customize your own photos in 10 simple steps. 1. Take A Photo With Your Webcam Or with your smartphone. Or use a picture on Facebook. Just make sure to… 2. [...]
An Eternal Moment Onstage
For that one moment, I stretched far into the future. We stood in a circle, about fifteen people at the east corner of the room, holding opposition against a group twice the size of ours, standing far on the other side. We had been asked by the leaders of the Oregon chapter of the National Speakers Association to divide ourselves - if we thought face-to-face communication was more powerful, we were to go one side of the room, and if [...]