Attitude + Action + Accountability gets it done!

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Congrats to my girls in the game!! RT @WSJSmallBiz: High Fliers: Top 50 Women-Led Companies http://bit.ly/dcfX2G

LOVE what you do, TRUST your gut and have the COURAGE to follow your HEART. --K. S. Steele

Fear is Expensive.

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Outperform yourself!

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Excited about upcoming workshops: How to Buy/Sell Businesses and Become a Business Broker. Watch for dates on posted bizben.com next week!

Abe's Wisdom

I'm a Goalie's mom of course...

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I love Friday!

Friday is a great day to get you 3 priorities of the week complete. Don't waste time. Get focused and get it done. After that, spend the rest of the day dreaming and planning LOFTY goals!

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I had a great time speaking to the women MBA students at Mills College today. Smart bunch of future SheEOs!

I like this! RT@Peekan: RT @DeepakChopra: Coincidences are anonymous gifts pointing to a deeper reality

I like this! RT@Peekan: RT @DeepakChopra: Coincidences are anonymous gifts pointing to a deeper reality

Watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. What a fabulous message for our nation's families. Food is not love and fries are NOT vegetables.

Luv this Bob :) @BestSellerBob: Don't get hung up on the "how to" just learn to follow your hunches, the whispers of greatness within you.

Great talk tonight for WPO @ the St. Regis. John Hamm was so on target as to why businesses scale or not. Are you an entrepreneur or leader?

Get Amped & Execute

Read this great blog post from Outspoken Media. Are you the person she's talking to? I might be. Subscribe to her blog. She always has something interesting to say. Enjoy. J.

It's Your Time. Get Amped & Execute Posted: 07 Apr 2010 07:45 AM PDT

We all talk a bit too much. We talk about the work we have to do, the new things we want to try when we get the time, the obstacles in our way. Sometimes the talk is helpful. It helps us to prioritize and plan and gets things in line so we can execute. But at some point we talk so we don't have to act. We talk so we have something to do when we're not doing the things we're supposed to be doing. We talk as an excuse for inaction. Let's not do that today. Today you should get amped and start executing. Nail down that one thing you've been wanting to do, and go all Nike on it. This is your time. Your competitor's time is over. If you don't believe me, let 5-year-old Joshua Sacco remind you.  He helped the Red Sox earn a 9-7 comeback win from the Yankees on Sunday night. Or if that didn't light a fire under your ass, go read Rae's post on Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Success. Or maybe watch Gary V's video on why he's gonna spend this year reading, instead of talking and speaking. Imagine what you'd be doing right now if you executed this time last year and didn't just talk about it.  You probably wouldn't be reading this blog post. I'm okay with that. We weren't all born to be baseball players, but that doesn't mean we can't create great things. If you're not the one on your team who has trouble executing, send this to the person who does.

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"Trust is the residue of promises kept." Tom Waller, Chair of Vistage East Bay

RT@BestSellerBob: The avg US corp. operates on a 5 yr planning horizon. The average Japanese corp. operates on a 150 yr horizon. Plan ahead.

WSJSmallBiz: Franchising Your Biz: Anthony Geisler of LA Boxing on how he turned a lone gym into a nat'l fitness chain. http://bit.ly/cJlOsM

BrokerMom

Negotiating offers on Friday... Little League in Albany and State Cup Soccer in Manteca on Saturday. The life of a BrokerMom. I love it!!

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Excellent advice in this market: @tonyrobbins Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

Because it's the right thing to do.

BarackObama: Tonight's vote is not a victory for any one party it is a victory for the American people. Tonight, we answered the call of history.

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Throwing out old Inc. Magazines and realized that I'm quoted in 3 of them! I better start adding value to a bigger audience again... soon!

Interesting! RT @IncMagazine: Weekend reading: The 5 most controversial business ideas courtesy of Norm Brodsky. http://bit.ly/aiqB1Y

"The conversation IS the relationship." -Susan Scott...Powerful!

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Happy Sunday

"It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it."~ Wieder Marcia

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RT BestSellerBob: Most folks never expect to find any value in a problem. Wealth Secret 4: All opportunities are disguised as problems.

Clarity... RT@BestSellerBob: FIVE-STEP SUCCESS FORMULA 1. Determine what you really want.

I want these next year!!

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Luv this! RT@BestSellerBob: Set big impossible goals and then don't look at the immensity of the goal. Just keep your eyes on the next step.

We Are the World 25... Liked it but didn't feel it like the first time around. Message still resonates- please don't forget about Haiti.

Let your light shine! :)RT@BestSellerBob: In all the world, there's only 1 of you. You are unique and your story matters.

Discover what your most valuable activities are in each of your roles then create the most efficient and most enjoyable schedule possible!

TGIF! RT@BestSellerBob: You must follow your intuition and ignore your critical voice. You must also pull together an active team. You can't succeed alone.

Don't Fail!

If the goals you set for yourself in 2010 are already starting to look out of reach, you need to focus on implementation--not more ideas. Put your focus on action to make this the year you break through your business and personal plateaus. www.horsesmouth.com.

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If you feel weighed down by a goal, it's the wrong goal. - Robert Allen

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Sunday Wisdom from She Godin...See below...

Happy Sunday!

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From: Seth Godin <blogmailfromseth@yahoo.com>

Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:16:18 -0500

To: jegwhite<jegwhite@bluekeybma.com>

Subject: Seth's Blog : Random rules for ideas worth spreading

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Random rules for ideas worth spreading

If you've got an idea worth spreading, I hope you'll consider this random assortment of rules. Like all rules, some are made to be broken, but still...

• You can name your idea anything you like, but a google-friendly name is always better than one that isn't.
• Don't plan on appearing on a reality show as the best way to launch your idea.
• Waiting for inspiration is another way of saying that you're stalling. You don't wait for inspiration, you command it to appear.
• Don't poll your friends. It's your art, not an election.
• Never pay a non-lawyer who promises to get you a patent.
• Avoid powerful people. Great ideas aren't anointed, they spread through a groundswell of support.
• Spamming strangers doesn't work. Spamming friends doesn't work so well either, but it's certainly better than spamming strangers.
• The hard part is finishing, so enjoy the starting part.
• Powerful organizations adore the status quo, so expect no help from them if your idea challenges the very thing they adore.
• Figure out how long your idea will take to spread, and multiply by 4.
• Be prepared for the Dip.
• Seek out apostles, not partners. People who benefit from spreading your idea, not people who need to own it.
• Keep your overhead low and don't quit your day job until your idea can absorb your time.
• Think big. Bigger than that.
• Are you a serial idea-starting person? If so, what can you change to end that cycle? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person.
• Try not to confuse confidence with delusion.
• Prefer dry, useful but dull ideas to consumer-friendly 'I would buy that' sort of things. A lot less competition and a lot more upside in the long run.
• Pick a budget. Pick a ship date. Honor both. Don't ignore either. No slippage, no overruns.
• Surround yourself with encouraging voices and incisive critics. It's okay if they're not the same people. Ignore both camps on occasion.
• Be grateful.
• Rise up to the opportunity, and do the idea justice.

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Never quit! RT@zappos: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -T. Edison

Live your life with purpose. Create a straight line from today's actions, to your goal, to your vision, to your values. TGIF!

RT @BestSellerBob: Most of your growth will come from doing things that are hard to do. #secretofdiamond

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."~ Arthur Ashe

Word of Mouth Marketing

Enjoying a great word of mouth marketing session with Patrick Galvin of Galvin Communications www.galvincomm.com.

Best Tips:

*Who is your "Director of First Impressions"

*Send an audio email with a wave file attachment or a link to hosted audio (or video)

*50% of all people must be asked before making a referral

*Make your business Googleicious with blogging

Follow Patrick's blog to learn more... Enjoy!

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8 days under rubble with the will to survive; siblings ages 8 and 10. Reminds me of my younger two and my tears flow and flow. Give $$ today.

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."~ Lee Iacocca

Sunday Long Run

Another 6 miler down along the Alameda ferry trail in pea soup and sprinkles. Shaved a minute per mile so starting to get my legs. Glorious!

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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."~ Stewart B. Johnson

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Fw: Seth's Blog : The lesson from two lemonade stands

I love this. Which girl are you? Blue Bottle Coffee in Oakland, CA is built on the style of the second little girl and they are going gang busters. Bottom line... Create a delightful experience and the line will wrap around the corner... Enjoy!

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:20:27 -0500

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The lesson from two lemonade stands

The first stand is run by two kids. They use Countrytime lemonade, paper cups and a bridge table. It's a decent lemonade stand, one in the long tradition of standard lemonade stands. It costs a dollar to buy a cup, which is a pretty good price, considering you get both the lemonade and the satisfaction of knowing you supported two kids.

The other stand is different. The lemonade is free, but there's a big tip jar. When you pull up, the owner of the stand beams as only a proud eleven year old girl can beam. She takes her time and reaches into a pail filled with ice and lemons. She pulls out a lemon. Slices it. Then she squeezes it with a clever little hand juicer.

The whole time that's she's squeezing, she's also talking to you, sharing her insights (and yes, her joy) about the power of lemonade to change your day. It's a beautiful day and she's in no real hurry. Lemonade doesn't hurry, she says. It gets made the right way or not at all. Then she urges you to take a bit less sugar, because it tastes better that way.

While you're talking, a dozen people who might have become customers drive on by because it appears to take too long. You don't mind, though, because you're engaged, almost entranced. A few people pull over and wait in line behind you.

Finally, once she's done, you put $5 in the jar, because your free lemonade was worth at least twice that. Well, maybe the lemonade itself was worth $3, but you'd happily pay again for the transaction. It touched you. In fact, it changed you.

Which entrepreneur do you think has a brighter future?

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My New Blog "The Trusted Advisors Collective" Blunders!

Please hang in there with me as I goof up this blog while trying to set up a second blog with my trusted advisor cohorts, Julie Merrill, Cathy Curtis and Elizabeth Whitehouse (a business consultant, a wealth manager and a bookkeeper)! I am still trying to figure out how to have two blogs with two separate profiles, so if my picture and name look different or don't match... it's still me! Cheers! Julie

Great advice! RT@BestSellerBob: Look for opportunities to be perennially profitable. 2010 is the year to do what you've never done before.

You have goals. Your organization has goals. Focus your efforts where the two goals intersect. When the two are combined, everyone wins.

Reflections of 2009 and Hopes for 2010

A very wonderful and smart friend of mine, Elizabeth Becker of Becker Communications, suggested that a group of us find symbols that reflect the previous year and the year ahead.

I chose "White Out" to reflect my desire to correct most of 2009! Last year was a lesson in patience, resilience and letting go. The fact that the title has my last name makes it all the more fitting. 2009, good riddance!

For 2010, I am choosing a bottle of water from the Four Season Las Vegas. This symbol represents easy flowing fun and abundance. I like this!

So...what are your 2 representations? Send me your pics!

Wishing you all easy flowing fun and abundance too in 2010! J.

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Just knocked out a 45min trot on my treadmill (trot = s-l-o-w). I'm ready for the new year and 2010 looks like it's going to be a DOOSIE!!

Just made a yummy 4th Qtr snack of dates stuffed with slivered almonds wrapped in warm semi-crispy bacon. The diet can wait for now.

Maybe in 2010

I'm reading Skinny Bitch again. January 1st "lose 10 pounds" is right around the corner AGAIN. Maybe the "10" in 2010 will be the ticket!

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I think Santa is bringing me a bundle of business wishes tonight...I'll send him to your house too!!! Merry, merry, merry Twitter Friends :)

Good advice Bob! RT @BestSellerBob: When making choices, listen to the voice inside of you that says, "This is what you were born for."

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."~ Mike Murdock

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Berkeley's Finest

Celebrating Berkeley's finest at brunch today. Thank you BPD!

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PriceMax Pointer: Don't waste this economy. Eliminate unnecessary expenses now. Plump business profits equal a plump business valuation!

Colors of Christmas at Davie's Symphony Hall

Peabo Bryson sings every Christmas with the Symphony and friends. Tonight with Jennifer Holliday and Sheena Easton!!
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Exactly!! RT @SusanFinco: RT @Keith_Brown: Focus - If you have too many irons in the fire, some will cool.

Hedgehog or Fox?

Read Good to Great by Jim Collins again. I think that mastering your Hedgehog (pg. 90) is the most important business concept ever. Really.

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All in due time <3 RT @tonyrobbins: "As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the "how" will reveal itself."

We should all be so lucky! RT @IncMagazine: Jack LaLanne, age 95: The secret to my business success--and longevity. http://bit.ly/7U8wC0

HoHoHo from BlueKey at the Brickyard Cove Marina!

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Happy Holidays from BlueKey at Brickyard Cove

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KISS

RT @BestSellerBob: Simplicity: a complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.
-John Gall

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Lake Tahoe? No, Mt. Diablo...TODAY!!

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Comments?

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RT @fastcompany: Twitter works! (Tworks?) Earns Dell $6.5M in sales. Make checks payable to Fast Company, please: http://bit.ly/5caCFY

Hear us roar (so "70's" of me!)!! RT @WomenPresidents: The Impact of Women-Owned Firms on the US Economy http://ow.ly/167j1N

Best running songs today: I'm Yours, Jason Mraz; Lovely Day, Bill Withers and Unwritten, Natasha Bedingield... Delish!

Stick with it!

Stick with it! How well you follow through with your plan determines your success. You make things happen only by seeing them through to the end.

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Happy Holidays with my Beloved ExecNet Friends!!

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THX!@upsideofmoney @pinkbizbroker Julie, glad to have you on SF-MoneyHoneys list! via @CurtisFinancial @susanfinco! My tweets r back on now!

Seth is great again today... "

Is it too late to catch up? What if your organization or your client has done nothing?What if they've just watched the last fourteen years go by? No real website, no social media, no permission assets. What if now they're ready and they ask your advice? And, by the way, they have no real cash to spend...Here's a list of my top ten things to consider doing:

• Use gmail to give every person in the organization that can read English an email address.
• Use a free website creating tool or even Squidoo to build a page about your company. Nothing fancy, but list your locations, your people (with addresses) and make it clear you want to hear from people.
• Start an email newsletter using Mad Mimi or Mail Chimp. Give the responsibility for the newsletter's creation and performance to one person and offer them a bonus if they exceed metrics in sign ups and in reducing churn.
• Start a book group for your top executives and every person who answers the phone, designs a product or interacts with customers. Read a great online media book a week and discuss. It'll take you about a year to catch up.
• Offer a small bonus to anyone in the company who starts and runs a blog on any topic. Have them link to your company site, with an explanation that while they work there, they don't speak for you.• Have the president post her (real) email address in every invoice and other communication the company sends out, asking people to write to her with comments or questions.
• Start a newsletter for your vendors. Email them regular updates about what you're doing, what's selling and what problems are going on internally that they might be able to help you with.• Do not approve any project that isn't run on Basecamp.
• Get a white board and put it in the break room. On it, have someone update: how many people subscribe to the newsletter, how many people visit the website, how many inbound requests come in by phone, how long it takes customer service to answer an email and how often your brand names are showing up on Twitter every day.
• Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
• Refuse to cede the work to consultants. You don't outsource your drill press or your bookkeeping or your product design. If you're going to catch up, you must (all of you) get good at this, and you only accomplish that by doing it.

The problem is no longer budget. The problem is no longer access to tools. The problem is the will to get good at it.

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One completed, important priority outweighs ten unimportant ones.

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Stress-Free Relationship Building by Keith Ferrazzi

Top 10 Personal Rituals for Stress-Free Relationship Building
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Keith Ferrazzi

In a recent post on time management, I asked for your favorite rituals for stress-free relationship building. They were all great! Here are my ten favorites:

10. Dog walking. That's prime pinging time for me, working from a home office. The dog doesn't mind. - John Kerr

9. Network at the gym. - Elizabeth Rhody

8. Every 3-4 months, organize informal drinks as a way to connect with people - but in a very time efficient manner. You buy appetizers, everyone buys their own drinks. - Sital

7. Split your lunch hour in two: Eat with one person and go for a walk with another. It gets in a little extra exercise and many people are happy to move around in the middle of the day. - Alizabeth Van Wieren

6. Make time to pray, worship, and listen to music often to help keep yourself energized. - Evie Denis

5. Create a blog to use as a reference library. In that blog I collect links and articles that I want to save for future reference. I also share the blog content with other artists. Not having to dig for links saves a lot of time. - Marie Kazalia

4. Give up TV! - Maria

3. Identify one "most important task" each day, and then devote the first hour of the day to that task -- before checking email or doing anything else. - Matt Perman

2. Sports junkies: use TV game time to follow up on e-mails, and schedule calls/mtgs with people. - SCOR

1. Get to appointments at least 15 minutes early and use those minutes for pinging, returning emails and social media. You can get a lot done with focus! - Juli Monroe

Success leaves clues... Look for your "Inner Winner"...

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Where can you eliminate activities in your day that hold little value?

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"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement." ~Claude M. Bristol

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Happy Thanksgiving :)

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I don't know what's more difficult- negotiating the sale of a biz or cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 15. I think I'll stick with business ;)

Dressing Chronicles

Good news: Corn bread for dressing is in the oven. Bad news: Made the pancake recipe instead of the bread one. Oh well, just add more corn meal stuff and stir. Right?

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Turkey Chronicles

Good news: Turkey is in the Chez Panisse brine. Bad news: I spilled 2 quarts of brine on the kitchen floor. Da*#! Oh well, less brine!

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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"~ Henry Ford

Thought of the day... Patience Pays.

Economy, USP or Both?

If your revenues are down it's probably the economy, but look a bit closer. It might be the economy AND your strategy. Is your USP really U?

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"If you wait to see the robin, Spring is probably over." -Warren Buffet tonight with Bill Gates on CNBC.

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TGIF from "Fabulous" Seth

"Fabulous
This is so cool: because we only look at things we want to look at, only talk about things worth talking about, the amount of fabulous in the world continues to rise exponentially.

Even though we're at the tail end of the great recession, think about all the cool stuff in your life. Not just stuff you can buy, but experiences, works of art, innovations of all kinds... the bar has been raised for what you need to do to be noticed, and the market is responding.

Not only do I notice more fabulous, but it sure seems as though the creators of it are more engaged, dedicated and yes, joyful, than I can remember. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it. You can't say, "but I need to make a fortune instead," because that's not happening right now. So you might as well join the people who can say, "I love doing this." -Seth Godin"

Starbucks oatmeal with raisins and nuts is a great reward after a hard 2 mile run on the treadmill... Now, off to sell a business or two!

100th Post! OMG!

Wow! I am excited and grateful for being able to share 100 bits of my business self, my mom self and my dreamer self with you... Thank you for listening and I hope you have been touched in at least a teeny, tiny way. With gratitude... Julie

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Exit Your Business When You Start Your Business

I was booked to speak to a start up group of women today but it was cancelled because several attendees were sick. The title of my presentation is "How to Exit Your Business When You Start Your Business".  Like it? Mark Victor Hansen actually named it for me... jgw

P.S. The presentation is perfect for start-ups as it gets them thinking about preparing for an exit from day one. Let me know if your group is interested in hearing the key note or workshop version.


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The Farm at Carneros Inn

Stopped at the fabulous Carneros Inn for a cocktail on the way...very romantic outdoor fireplace!

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www.montanamatters.com

On our way to Sonoma for www.montanamatters.com. Great cause and great people (and great wine!). Thanks to Ron Clausen and www.clausenlawgroup.com for your passion!

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RT@unmarketing: Most common advice if a blogger could start over? Use Wordpress hosted on own site. Also: engage, build a list

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