On Tue., Nov. 15th, I will be part of a blogging panel at the meeting/luncheon of the Social Media Club of Columbus. If you are not familiar with this organization, you should check it out. They are great about varying the speakers and topics and they deliver the latest social media info, including, but not limited [...]
Category Archives: Written Impact
Oct
31
Reflections After Two Years in Business
Written Impact just celebrated two years in business … and as I kick-off a new venture BlogCoaches, I thought it would be interesting to post a few reflections about my entrepreneurial journey. Being an entrepreneur suits me — every time I think about going back to the corporate world, I break out in a cold [...]
Also posted in Business, Business Passion, Networking, WrittenImpact Connections Tagged Business, marketing, written impact 2 Comments
Oct
18
From a Tweet to a Blog Post … and China?
This is a guest post from Written Impact Visual Brand Manager, Matthew Pasternack, founder of Nack Creative. I challenged him to take an interesting tweet and expand it out into a blog post. It is a great story! I recently posted an “Image of the Day”, on Twitter, of a screenshot I took of a [...]
Also posted in Blogging, Collaboration, Creative Design, Creativity Tagged blogging, Collaboration, creativity, written impact 2 Comments
Oct
12
Small Business Owner Survival Tip: Exercise
When I started Written Impact in Sept. 2009, I was running outdoors and balancing my time pretty well. But as my business grew, I started cutting out my morning runs to get more work done. From January 2010 – September 2010, I didn’t exercise at all. This was the first time in my life that [...]
Also posted in Change, Entrepreneur, Exercise, Fitness Tagged Business, Exercise, Fitness, marketing, personal development, small business, written impact 4 Comments
Oct
1
Announcing BlogCoaches.com
I am very happy to announce BlogCoaches.com. This new venture is a result of my strong belief that you can create and maintain a business blog that inspires others, builds your brand, increases SEO, connects you more intimately with new and potential clients and helps you learn about yourself and what makes you tick. My [...]
Also posted in BlogCoaches, Blogging, Branding, Business Passion, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Seth Godin, Writing Tagged blog coaching, blogging, creativity, Entrepreneur, marketing Leave a comment
Sep
21
Unselling = Relationship Building
A recent post in Ideas to Deals focused on selling strategies and the power of relationship building versus hard selling. Michael Bowers, Columbus SBDC Director, summarized a panel discussion which included three different perspectives on ‘selling’. What was key for me, was Bowers’ point about how much he disliked being sold by someone in the [...]
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Sep
11
St. Gabriel Catholic Radio Acquires WOSU 820AM
We are very excited to announce that Written Impact client, listener-supported St. Gabriel Radio, Inc. announced it has signed a purchase agreement for WOSU-820AM from The Ohio State University. The signing of this agreement is the first step in the transition to the future, permanent radio home at 820AM with a wider reach around Ohio. St. [...]
Also posted in Branding, Catholic, Client Spotlight, Columbus Diocese, Communication, Nonprofit, Ohio State University, Radio Tagged Catholic, non-profit, radio station, The Ohio State University Leave a comment
Aug
30
Grace Waves
There are moments in our lives when we feel driven to do something that we don’t quite understand. My question to you is this … do you listen, follow you gut and move forward with that prompting or do you ignore it … for whatever reason? And what happens when you listen and respond? Do you [...]
Aug
22
Google+: Using it in the Non-Profit World
Post by Kevin Volz, WI Media Manager & Writer Google sites attract more than 1 billion visitors worldwide each month. Google hopes that their new social network, Google+, will become the core of all Google pages. Google+ offers context, content, and convenience for all its users. For instance, if you already use Gmail, the toolbar [...]
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Aug
14
Lessons Learned from an Event Planner
Post by Julie Naporano, WI Events Manager. In my more than 9 years as a contracted event planner, I have learned five important points about the business: People underestimate the time it takes to do everything. People think they know what they want until they have to explain it. Being nice matters. Things look different [...]
Also posted in Business, Creativity, Entrepreneur, Events, Planning Tagged Business, event budgets, event goals, event planning, events, fundraising, written impact 1 Comment
