Life of E's

Question: What is your opinion of having posters/shirts with motivational quotes as products to sell? Posted by Billy Simms | 11/27/07 Answer: Holy moly….individuals and companies make a mint (and some lose their shirts…no pun intended) creating products with quotes to sell.  I think with the ideas that you have…you have a lot of potential [...]

Tags: Marketing, motivational quotes, promotional products, promotions, quotes, sponsor

Question: Wow!  This is really weird.  I just logged in to ask a question about copyright issues and I see that Rosemary had the same type of question.  Good to know that  people are on the same wavelength.  A few weeks ago, I think I came up with a good concept that I want to [...]

Tags: copyright, copyrighted, idea, ideas, intellectual property, quoted

Question: Hi Meggin,  I just read the article about tag lines and it raised a question for me. I have been playing with phrases for The Writers’ Salon, and then saw the new Citi commercial on TV…they stole my idea!! Their tagline is: What’s Your Story…We’ll help you write it. My idea was: You have [...]

Tags: copyright, copyrighted, idea, phrases, tagline, taglines

Question: Using Jeff Herring’s information, I am writing my first few articles to try to post on ezine.  One of them is how to use the distributive property to solve algorithms.  I have found it necessary to show examples using a table.  Will this be an acceptable format in ezine? Posted by Cheryl Hecht | [...]

Tags: Ezine, ezine format, formatting, Jeff Herring, tables, writing in ezine

Resource: Business Owner’s Toolkit (Total Know-How for Small Business) www.Toolkit.com I saw an ad for it in Fast Company magazine and checked it out this morning.  It has a TON of links and articles, etc. related to small business.  I didn’t sign up for anything, although I think you can.  I just looked around at [...]

Tags: business, business owner's toolkit, Fast Company, Toolkit

Question: Hi, Meggin, I’m a certified GO Trainer and I often get this question from a few class participants and I’ve run into this myself.  How do you suggest people use their calendar in conjunction with the tickler files? I’ve had at least one person say they feel they are duplicating their efforts by using [...]

Tags: calendar, files, GO, Julie Morgenstern, planner, Swiftfiles

Suggestion/Comment: Beginning last July, I have dedicated myself to throwing out 1 bag of junk per week.  Also I have worked very hard to not buy “stuff” – mainly because the dumps are overflowing.  My Christmas gifts this year are either things people can eat or drink, services like massages or a tickets to a [...]

Tags: dumps, giving, junk, recycling, services

Suggestion/Comment: Have really been pouring over my ideas and writing and big thoughts from Mindset.  My advice to all – Just Do It!  I do not think there is necessarily a perfect time for writing, or working on presentations, or whatever, but I do feel that it takes marking time off in your planning book [...]

Tags: Gini Cunningham, mindset, prioritize, writing, writing plan

Information/Suggestion: Here is a great business idea for keeping in touch with clients…SendOutCards.com is a web site where you can send cards and postcards to your clients.  You pick the card – or make one with a picture you have uploaded.  The card will be mailed for you – and you can even have a [...]

Tags: Barbara Hemphill, cards, correspondence, Jeni Blakely, SendOutCards

Information: Here is my information concerning tips booklets printing/shipping costs.  My tips booklet ended up being 16 pages (100 tips).  I am using a very basic cover with only one color.  Nothing fancy.  I did not want to go through the hassle of looking for a local printer to do the job.  I wanted to [...]

Tags: costs, expenses, printing costs