I’m just going to put this out there, I see a lot of people looking for a copywriter/content marketer/word wizard to boost/start/lead their content marketing endeavors. I think a lot of applications get lost in the shuffle, so, based on a cover letter I wrote (and helpfully edited with an AI) here is why you,…
I gave a career day talk at Imagine High, the local arts and technology high school here in Chilliwack. This is the kind of school where the kids who don’t fit in, fit in. All the artistic, neuro-spicy, creative, weird, geeky kids who tend not to enjoy, or thrive, in a “normal” high school gravitate…
This week I’m talking with my friend Jordan Behan of Narrate Creative about content, productizing services, and when you should think about outsourcing parts of your content production (this was a not-so-subtle nod to me and my issues with Episode 6). Jordan and I talk about taking things like video (which he publishes weekly and…
Life gets in the way. My goal, as I ramp up my content marketing and freelance writing business, was to post here everyday. Following the example of Mark Evans and others, I wanted to post something interesting and insightful each day. Something to get people thinking. But I haven’t posted everyday. Not even close. Funny…
Closing One Chapter, Starting Another 2004 – 2014 were great, but everything has to end It’s a sobering experience when you realize that over the past 16 years you’ve written at least 2000 posts you can put your finger on. I’m guessing if you throw in all the posts I wrote as a professional blogger…
What Weight Watchers teaches us about motivation I’ve had to keep an eye on my weight since my first (medically supervised) diet at age 13 (13 year olds aren’t supposed to have high blood pressure). My mom (also a nurse) helped my follow a Weight Watchers inspired diet and it worked. Now flash forward a…
Having even a half decent, mostly complete outline is better than nothing Remember back in high school when you had to write your first term paper? After all the organizing with index cards, after all the lessons on research, after working on your topic, what did your (dreaded) English teacher tell you to do? Write…
10 things a geek dad would like to have that isn’t a tie Photo by Juliane Liebermann on Unsplash Not that many of us wear ties any more. I don’t think I’ve had to regularly wear a tie to work—ever. I know that there are as many kinds of geek dads are kinds of dads and geeks out…
You see the mountain you need to climb, now how do you get there? “A woman on a ledge high over a wooded valley” by Mike Wilson on Unsplash Let’s get the whole goal-strategy-tactics definition out of the way first. Lots of people mess this up and it’s essential to get this right out of the gate….
I’m no economist, but something has to give “Old, vintage and rusty blue gas pump located at a gas station at Los Alamos.” by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash One dollar and sixty cents a liter. Gas hit this stellar mark here in Vancouver?—?making it the highest gas prices in North America ever?—?and while I haven’t seen prices…
