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You Don’t Have to Run Some Big, Cheesy Sale to Do Well
Picture it: Your loved ones are sitting around roasting chestnuts on an open fire, while you’re hunched over the (pumpkin-pie-greased) keyboard, biting your fingertips and worrying whether or not...
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I Hate Monday: Edition #6
Welcome to I Hate Monday, the most productive way for small business owners & bloggers to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. First and foremost, let it be known that Cards Against...
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I Hate Monday: Edition #7
Welcome to I Hate Monday, the most productive way for small business owners & bloggers to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. Having a bad day? Feeling bitter? Want to punch somebody in...
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I Hate Monday: Edition #8
Welcome to I Hate Monday, the most productive way for small business owners & bloggers to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. Cracking up about this: Parody slogans for start-ups and...
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Constantly Guilt Yourself Over Doing “The Responsible Thing?” Maybe You...
There’s a lot of bullshit around the word “responsible.” We let this tiny word guilt us to the grave. Do the responsible thing. Act responsibly. Be a responsible adult. Don’t be so irresponsible. I...
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I Hate Monday: Edition #9
Welcome to I Hate Monday, the most productive way for small business owners & bloggers to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. Here, Erika illustrates one of the real secrets to blogging...
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I Hate Monday: Edition #10
Welcome to I Hate Monday, the most productive way for small business owner, freelancers & creatives to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. Let’s face it: Lounging around your living room...
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On Becoming Unfuckwithable
Unfuckwithable. If you’re contemplating themes for the New Year, I highly recommend borrowing this one. Unfuckwithable. Rolls right off the tongue and deep dives directly into your ovaries. But more...
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I Hate Monday: Edition #11
Welcome to I Hate Monday, obvoiusly the most productive way to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. This is going to be the best thing you watch today. It’s going to make you tear up. It’s...
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Better to Be a Mouse With a Backbone, Than a Lion With No Spine: On Writing...
You know when you sit down to write and your brain sort of feels kind of…constipated? (A delightful image, if I do say so myself.) Then you finally manage to put a sentence on the screen, but then...
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I Hate Monday: Edition #12
Welcome to I Hate Monday, obvoiusly the most productive way to procrastinate until it’s not Monday anymore. Know why Danielle Laporte’s been so wildly successful? Because she doesn’t just give you...
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Sometimes in Business, You Need to Do YOU.
The dead horse of the decade is the target customer. You’re asked to create personas. Put yourself in their shoes bras. Get inside their head. Imagine what’s keeping them up at 3 o’clock in the...
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On Getting Old, Having No Idea How to Make a Soufflé & Consciously Choosing...
It’s 2:42 in the morning and the reason I’m awake is called CHARDONNAY. People talk about getting old—buying crock pots, nonchalantly cutting your spouse’s armpit hairs, relating more to The Golden...
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I Hate Monday: Edition #13
Welcome to I Hate Monday, a list of my favorite must-know recommendations, finds and other delightfully unproductive things. Because it is Monday after all. What else would you rather be doing? I’ve...
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Read This if You’re an Impatient, Demanding, Self-Critical Tart Who Gets Mad...
What gets measured, gets managed has got to be the most annoying piece of business advice ever. (Right next to “create epic content,” “follow your passion,” and “don’t fart too loud when the mic is...
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Headspace Is Like a Goddamn Unicorn
Headspace. Even though it feels about as mythical as a goddamn unicorn, it’s a thing. I know most of us would feel more comfortable using a keyboard full of hypodermic needles than, you know, actually...
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Nice Brands Finish Last
I take it as an insult when somebody calls me The N Word: Nice. Out of 100,000 adjectives in the English language, if the best you can come up with is nice, then I’m doing something wrong. It’s like...
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An Ode to the Internet’s Worst Business Advice
A person, going into business for themselves for the first time: How can I get found? The Internet: Start a newsletter! Person: What, like a weekly bulletin? The Internet: No, like a newsletter....
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My Pet Peeve About the Internet: No One Teaches Any Goddamn Substance
I’ve been running a successful online writing & publishing business for almost ten years now. TEN. Which is like seventy in dog years, and like a hundred and seventy in internet years, which might...
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How to Stop Writing With a Stick Up Your Ass
One of the things I get asked about forty hundred times a day (besides whether or not I know there’s a hair sprouting from my chin) is this: Where’s the line between personality and unprofessional?...
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