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[QW9] – Adding professional bullets to your LinkedIn profile

Mar 20, 2021

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Yeees, I know LinkedIn® has a way to add bullet points to your About section. But the ones I've seen are unprofessional ('cutesy' icons, really), and LinkedIn keeps changing the...

Is the term “freelance” affecting your credibility?

Mar 6, 2021

The first rule of websites? "Never send your reader away from your website." Yep, that rule. The one I am about to break, so please come back. If you work on a contract basis, you may have considered: should you use the term 'freelance' to describe your...

[QW8] “How do I get past client objections?”

Feb 20, 2021

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] "Heard it all before, yadda, yadda, yadda." Of course. But how many of us paid attention? Writing a post on this topic was the farthest thing from my mind. (Except for the...

[QW7] Two words for ya: kitchen timer!

Jan 16, 2021

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Here's a mini business tip to start off our new Quick Win year. Enjoy. [QW7] Two words for ya: kitchen timer! This is one of those "Why didn't I think of this?"...

5 Steps to Non-Overwhelm [Redux]

Jan 2, 2021

[ Chapter 1 in my book is based on this post. ] As small business owners suffered through the 'overwhelm' known as 2020 (!), I know some of us used a bit of the shutdown time to re-work company procedures. In that spirit, I've updated the flagship to my...

[QW Bonus] Infographic: 4 Money-Saving Steps to Your First Draft

Nov 21, 2020

Two weeks ago, my talented VA created the infographic I vowed to generate. Two years ago. In all my spare time, right? When October rolled around this year, I did offer you my post on this subject: 4 money-saving steps to your first draft But I still didn't...

Newsjack alert! A twist on Thanksgiving

Nov 7, 2020

Enjoy this first post from the new website! Thanks to the team at for non-overwhelming the end of 2020 for me. Such a blessing. 'Newsjacking' is grabbing a story...

[QW6] Is ‘Everyone has …’ or ‘… have …’ correct?

Oct 17, 2020

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] If you've followed along with the Quick Wins from the beginning, this is where it starts paying off! In [QW1], we discussed a team is a collection of people making up: A group An...

4 money-saving steps to your first draft

Oct 3, 2020

It's an unhappy moment. An editor tells an author they need the first draft copy before editing can begin. The writer is dumbfounded. Isn't that what they emailed? No. They sent months (or years) of musings. Maybe the file was run through spell check. But it's...

[QW5] “It’s” vs. “Its”

Sep 19, 2020

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Here is a problematic word puzzler where one outlier does not follow the rule. [QW5] "It's" vs. "Its" We often find an apostrophe demonstrating ownership: The dog's bone A...

“Am I a good work-from-home candidate?”

Sep 5, 2020

Someone just screamed at their phone: "NO!" And I sympathize. In February...

[QW4] ‘Democratic’ vs. ‘Democrat’

Aug 15, 2020

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Okay, pet peeve time. We in the U.S. are ramping up to an election in early November. And I guarantee: we will hear and see the word 'democratic' misused 99% of the time between...

A fresh look @ follow-up

Aug 1, 2020

When my subscriber and friend Shawn H. and I talked about meeting reminders, she gave me another excellent idea to research and share with you: “I’d like to find the best way to follow-up and thank clients. Has the etiquette around thank-you notes changed?” Funny you...

[QW3] Don’t confuse ‘I’ and ‘me’

Jul 18, 2020

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] One of the most difficult things to get right in sentences is 'I' and 'me.' [QW3] Don't confuse 'I' and 'me' Let me show you two correct examples, and then explain the method I...