Insights - Ask Owlbert

May 7, 20080

Are you suffering from this cmomon mistake?

Morning!

Joy! Is realizing you’re on the last legs of finalizing your new blog look and feel!

And agony is! Realizing - your fingers slipped in your contact information and your contact form email reads:

MyName@MyName.cmo

And TRUE PAIN is! [Read more]

May 4, 20080

Soaring on broken wings - views of Twitter Budgie courage

If you’ve been following my adventures online for any length of time, you’re probably aware of my April Fools’ site, TwitterBudgie.

But did you know those 15 parakeets really DO live in my office…and really do have unique and fascinating personalities you’d never imagine a tiny birdie could possess?

Take Avenahar, for example. Avenahar’s story is very sad yet very inspiring as well. I got him from a pet shop (I was given him, actually) last year and immediately noticed something really really really REALLY weird:

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Apr 23, 20080

2 Easy Ways to Kill Your Self Confidence

Easy! You’ve probably read tons of "how to build self-confidence" articles in blogs and dozens of "you can do it!" self-affirmations and scores of "make it happen today!" posts to last you a lifetime.

And generally, I adore these kinds of posts myself; positive attitudes and self-confidence can go light-years towards making one successful online.

Which, of course, is why I have to rock the apple cart, tip the bathtub, spread the peanut butter on the down side of the toast, fill up the car with water, shine up the trumpet with sandpaper, mix the coffee with carrot juice….in other words, present ideas from the other side of garden! With that, let me now ask you: [Read more]

Apr 20, 20080

Happiness and power - perfect together

Happiness Have you ever wanted to be happy?

And have you ever wanted to have power?

And have you ever wondered….gee, what would it be like…to be and possess both?

Let me tell you, it’s pretty awesome…and actually not very difficult to achieve at all.

Would you believe that?

So many times, I see bloggers angst about [Read more]

Apr 18, 20080

Refining and revamping your brand - Lessons from BarbaraLing.com

Morning!

It’s been a past few days of major major changes in my blogging layout!

After researching other authority blogs online and taking stock of my current business objectives/goals/etc., I’ve made two powerful decisions - I’m going to: