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How to Find the Right Collaboration Partner
Peanut butter and jelly. Paul and Ringo. Holmes and Watson. Partners. Each valuable on their own. Each #BetterTogether. Whether you are looking at guest posting, creating a product together or trading social media shares, the quality of your connection makes ... Read more
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Why Collaborating Makes Us #BetterTogether
In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, Sherry Turkle says, These days, whether you are online or not, it is easy for people to end up unsure if they are closer ... Read more
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What to Do After the (Brain)Storm
In the sticky Louisiana summertime, afternoon thunderstorms are the norm. Most days, after lunch, the puffy white clouds start turning gray, and then black. Around 3pm, the lightening starts popping, the thunder starts rolling and the raindrops come down … ... Read more
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10 Quick Tips to Super-Charge Your Brainstorming
So you’ve gathered your four senior team members for an epic brainstorming session that will decide the future of your organization. After an initial flurry of the most obvious ideas, Suzy is bored and ordering her fall wardrobe from ThredUp on ... Read more
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3 Brainstorming Methods That Really Work
What do you envision when you think of brainstorming? A stream of disconnected thoughts spilling from your mind to a page? A group of people randomly bouncing ideas off of each other? That kind of free-thinking is useful in some ... Read more
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4 Game-Changing Benefits of Brainstorming
What are things like in your head? Maybe it’s clear-sailing in there. All your ideas make sense. Your problems all have clear solutions. Starts and finishes are connected by straight lines. No? Me, neither. Ideas get jumbled together like giant ... Read more
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Black Friday 2023
Ready, Set …. Black Friday! Bookmark this page to get all the details on Black Friday deals for online Christian ministries and businesses. I’ll have specials on my products, and showcase other deals on tools and resources to support you. ... Read more
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The Assembly Line Method to Task Batching
My favorite thing about the Honor Circle is watching my friends apply what they learn in ways that work for them, and then share it with the rest of us. Our girl Susan from Growing A Content Heart came up ... Read more
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January Reset: Social Media Guidelines
There is nothing that seems to bring more angst, stress, and even fear to those in online ministry and business than social media. Which platforms are the best? How many days a week should I post? What should I post? ... Read more
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January Reset: 3 Tips for Managing Email
Before we close our 2022 planners and open the crisp new ones, blank with possibilities for 2023, there are some things we can do to make way for all those possibilities. We need to unload some things and straighten up ... Read more
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January Reset: Financial Stewardship
This is it! The last week of our January Reset… a month spent cleaning up our ministry and biz clutter to make room for the new opportunities God has for us in 2023. Are you ready to talk about financial ... Read more
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January Reset: Organizing Digital Files
Here we are in our second week of January Reset … time we have set aside to clear out some of our ministry and business clutter and make way for the amazing opportunities God has in store for us this ... Read more
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Is your to-do list out of control?
Grab my best to-do list tips and learn to overcome the de-railers in your week
