This Week In Business: The Stubbornly Training Edition
The honeymoon is officially over, folks. Last week, I got a cute skiddish dog named Gidget. This week, it has been all about establishing calm assertiveness à la Cesar Millan and getting the now outgoing (and oddly vocal) Gidget trained. The good news is I’m more stubborn than a 30 pound Corgi mix but that doesn’t mean this has been a cakewalk. There has been whining, panting, and other attention seeking behavior (her, not me). But I am firm and so far, I’m winning very small victories with crate training and basic commands. Who knew she could sit like a meerkat?!
Trying to work through the whining, here’s what’s been happening at Breaking Even Communications:
Flickr had me convinced that I was going crazy.
So I saw there was a breakingeven user on Flickr and I was pretty convinced it was me. I set up the account a couple months ago…only I couldn’t remember what email address I had set it up with. I’ve been wanting to look more into image sharing as part of a project I’m working on for a client but I wanted to set it up my Flickr presence with ‘breakingeven’ if I was able.
What I Thought About Julie and Julia
Breaking Even blog is mostly business and money related but Fridays, I’m going to write about whatever I darn well feel like. Because aren’t Fridays supposed to be fun?
And when I think of fun lately, I keep thinking about the part of last weekend where I parked my butt on a couch. Instead of watching the Superbowl last Sunday, ie the most watched television program in recorded history, I watched ‘Jule and Julia’. It was a movie about cooking and blogging, two of my favorite things.
I actually enjoyed myself. Meryl Streep’s performance makes me wish I would have met the real Julia Child and Amy Adams makes an adorable blogger.
My first, eye-rollingly geeky first impression is that this movie makes blogging look easy. Within a few months, Julie’s blog gets over 50 comments in one day and by the end, the New York Times has featured her. I’ve been blogging going on three years. Honestly, I’m ecstatic when more than two of you reading this decide to comment.
Breaking Even Is Back
Where has the Breaking Even blog been? It’s a good question.
I promised I’d never write an apology post but this blog needs one. I am sorry I haven’t been keeping things up. For the last few weeks, I’ve been looking at this blog as a chore. In short, I had forgotten why I started writing it, which is that I love not only the idea of blogs but an excuse to write on a regular basis.
I am back in love with the Breaking Even blog, folks!
This week, it’s back to the usual schedule from now on. You can now count on a posting multiple times a week:
Marketing Monday: Goop
Editor’s Note: Thank you all for your kind condolences about the death of my dog. I appreciate your compassion, and am happy to report that I am feeling much better this week. Many thanks.
Know an individual or business doing something cool to promote themselves online? Let me know about it and they might be featured as part of Marketing Monday!
I’d first of all like to keep this blog a positive one. There are so many people doing so many good things online, to promote their business or otherwise.
Today, I wanted to review Gwyneth Paltrow’s website called Goop. It’s mission is to ‘nurture the inner aspect’ and is supposed to be about things in Gwenyth Paltrow’s life.
Recently, her post about a New Year’s cleanse recieved some media attention at both Nerve and Huffington Post and just this past weekend, the site came up in conversation over lunch with two of my friends in the media.
The only reason this website seems to work is because it belongs to Gwenyth Paltrow. I haven’t found anyone who ‘gets it’.