Get Your First Sale!

Nothing beats the joy of your first sale. You can plot, plan, market and dream all you want, but until you get that first sale, you're not sure that you have a real business. It's 25 years since I sold my first book to an international publisher. I walked on air for days. To my mind, because real writers wrote books, I was real writer…

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Building a Better Sidebar

When I first heard about .NET's user controls I thought, "What's this? A proprietary format for include files?" I argued with a colleague about this newest offering from Microsoft, dismissing user controls as some sort of hype from Redmond.

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Coach Meaning, Not Just a Laundry List of To-Dos

The childhood development scientists who authored "The Scientist in the Crib," did so for reasons which apply to coaching as well. "While popular books about science speak to intelligent, perceptive adults who simply want to learn," they wrote, "books about babies typically just give advice, heavy on the how-to and light on the why."

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Start Your New Business TODAY

The right time to start your new business is right now. Today. Whenever I suggest that to someone who's going to start their new business "soon", I get a variety of replies, mostly prefaced by "yes, but".

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