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Cherry Bomb: Is your business a turkey?

Posted on 25. Nov, 2011 by in Cherry Bomb

Each year, my sisters and their families gather with my family at my parents’ home for Thanksgiving. And as much as it’s a time for being thankful, it’s also time for conversations. Yet there are some people in the family (who shall be nameless) where year after year the conversation. From what they are thankful [...]

Cherry Bomb: Taking my kids’ lunch money

Posted on 18. Nov, 2011 by in Cherry Bomb

A while back, I was asked to donate (yes, donate) to an entrepreneur who needed money to get a book published.  She claimed if I didn’t help, she would have to tap into her children’s lunch money. Maybe she was joking, but I wasn’t laughing. I was angry. This kind of manipulation – that is, [...]

Cherry Bomb: You can’t always ‘wing it’ when it comes to a big promotion

Posted on 04. Nov, 2011 by in Cherry Bomb

If you know anything about me by now, I am a planner. (Maybe even to a fault, if you ask those close to me.) And sometimes, that planning nature can mean that perfectionism can take over. But then there are times when I feel justified that my planning is a blessing, especially when I see [...]

Cherry Bomb: Naming and shaming doesn’t work with your joint venture partners

Posted on 16. Sep, 2011 by in Cherry Bomb

At first, I felt bad for myself. I wasn’t invited to the party (again). I felt left out from one of the big giveaway events that is happening this fall, even though some of my pals were invited to play. Why not me? After all, I was one of the first coaches/mentors to use a [...]

Cherry Bomb: Down with ‘Me Too!’ product creation

Posted on 29. Jul, 2011 by in Cherry Bomb

Have you noticed it? Everyone and their brother is putting out the same kind of products lately. To say it’s tiresome is only a little bit of the problem. When you see other information marketers making big bucks from an ebook on, say, how to write and publish a book – it is really tempting [...]