I love Derek Sivers. His tagline: “Entrepreneur, programmer, avid student of life. I make useful things, and share what I learn.”
He made a video called “Why You Need to Fail.” It beautifully illustrates the mindset we value by linking “Failure & Opportunity” in our company’s core values.
“Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Henry Ford
I don’t mow my own lawn. Why? Because I’m not good at it. I mean, I can cut the grass well enough to not have the house be an embarrassment to the neighborhood but I can’t trim the edges nicely and get that, right off the pages of Home and Garden, look that my landscaper…
Have you ever lost an entire day of productivity to paralyzing anxiety? Has a looming deadline ever sent you into a tailspin of panic, spinning in circles and not getting a thing accomplished? Has your brain ever felt like a rubber ball that bounced off everything you tried to focus on?
It’s happened to me once or twice.
When the site is layered just perfectly, you need the basil on the top. That’s you! You are the element that tops the perfect bite. You know your business better than anyone does and you need to be the final element that means success.
We see clients repeating these same patterns in website projects, except instead of skipping breakfast, they’re skipping the crucial first phase of the project during which we explore the business and technical requirements and get to know the client so that we can channel their needs into a useful finished product.
Many businesses need to keep up with their Blog and Newsletter but most people don’t really love to write. Moreover, writing an effective blog or powerful, monthly newsletter takes a little skill and finessing. Well, good news. At Virtual Creatives, we love words and writing and we’d love to do that for you. We’re happy…
In this blog series, I will talk about the birth of the Plan B Expo, including the ways in which we succeeded and the lessons we learned from the times we failed, as well as insight into how to network more effectively for your own business.