This week was one of the busiest ever and I am reminded of when I started this company over a year and a half ago.  I used to go to movies during the DAY sometimes back then.  I had my nails done once every two weeks!  I used to neatly stack my bookcase by size and shape instead of piling them on every flat surface in the house!
Speaking of books – I just started Creative Inc. this week. It’s going to be on my recommended list for people who …

When Pop Tarts opened a New York store I have to admit I made a mental note that I would definitely be going there the next time I got to New York.  In fact, there’s a good chance I will go there straight from the airport since I apparently have the sweet tooth of an 8 year old that makes me do ridiculous things like buy $10 giant gummy bears (they are 1200 calories each btw) and I can’t event get into what happens to me when the Peeps hit …

Everyone has seen the good, the bad, and the really, really bad on basically every online platform. The Twitter feed that reads:
“We’re having a sale 50% off”
“Stop in today – big sale”
“35% off everything”
It’s like someone taking out a huge cartoon Acme sledgehammer and hitting you over the head while calling you dumb. It’s annoying and the brand typically has under 100 followers to show for their efforts. I kind of feel bad, they’re trying…..
So since we don’t want to hit our clients and beloved customers over …

I met Emma from “Jane Has A Job” a few weeks ago when she asked to do an interview on how I started my business and I was so happy to discover that her blog has tons of supersmart career advice.  When we got to talking, we both realized that we started our blogs in many ways to search for other career oriented women to be friends with.  Mission accomplished!  Read the interview here.

This contest is so smart I just had to write about it.  It’s  sponsored by CB2 and The Selby which is an incredible photo blog about people in their creative spaces.  Todd Selby shoots people in their apartments or lofts and is kind of a tastemaker of who’s cool right now.  He also shoots spaces as they are and not all styled and Martha Stewart-ed up so it’s appealing to people who want to design their own cool space and are the kind of people who troll through home blogs …

This weekend is the weekend when I officially refurbish the old dresser in the bedroom.  I got the idea from this amazing magazine called Living Etc. (UK) that I discovered a few weeks ago.  They have an absolute TON of ideas for things you can do to your apartment / home that you can actually do yourself.   Another one that I love for ideas is Readymade, which I am going to do a whole post on next week.
Fast Company named the Top 10 Most Innovative Architecture Companies – prepare …

photo credit – from moon to moon
When I saw author of “Eat,Pray,Love” Elizabeth Gilbert speak this spring she said “every afternoon I take a silence bath” in which she basically just sits in a room quietly and hangs out with her cat or falls asleep.  “Rough life” I thought “must be nice to be an author with a gazillion readers so that you can take silence baths every day”.  Sometimes I don’t even get to take a real bath every day and  the only silence I get is after …

Photo by Erin Dollar
The topic of Facebook Fan Pages is coming up more and more regularly as people and brands try to decide whether they should spend a lot of time and money to have an amazing fan page and how they are going to get it above 6 fans that aren’t married to or otherwise related to them.
Now there’s research out there that suggests that people that fan your brand are also much more likely to recommend or buy from you.  Then there’s research that tries to figure out …

photo by Nigel Peake
I have been harping on the “creativity in the workplace” thing for a while now.  Sort of because it would really help me if got popular (I once completed a chemistry exam in high school with all illustration answers.  Got a D) but also because it’s becoming more and more necessary to come up with creative solutions to marketing.  The template is out there and it’s Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. until everyone has one and being creative suddenly means the difference between people caring about your brand …

So, I’m going to a real cabin this weekend.  Last week I was really excited.  The beginning of this week I was really nervous.  I know I’m from Wisconsin and we’re all supposed to have farms and eat bugs and stuff but I guess I missed out on the outdoorsy gene or something.  The cabin belongs to a good friend of the New Jerseyite and his wife so we’re going with them. I already told the New Jerseyite the things that I won’t do, like pee outside or go outside …