by Don | Jun 9, 2022 | E-newsletters
I sent out the first issue of my e-newsletter The Writer’s Block more than a decade ago in 2011. Since I’d been writing and editing newsletters going all the way back to my first professional job in 1985, this was an obvious step for me to take as a new full-time...
by Don | May 5, 2022 | Blogging
Does anybody else remember a sci-fi movie from the 1990s called The Lawnmower Man? Based loosely on a Stephen King short story, the movie was about an intellectually disabled landscape guy who becomes the subject of a mad scientist-type experiment in which he’s given...
by Don | Mar 3, 2022 | Content Marketing, E-newsletters
Have you ever heard the saying, “the cobbler’s kids have no shoes”? It refers to how sometimes people who are experts at something in their professional life neglect this very thing in their personal life. You know … like a cobbler’s children walking around barefoot...
by Don | Feb 3, 2022 | E-newsletters, General Tips
When I graduated college in 1985 with a degree in Advertising, I had big plans to get a job with an advertising agency and become the next Don Draper. Alas, it turned out the agencies weren’t beating down the doors to hire fresh-out-of-college grads who were very wet...
by Don | Jan 6, 2022 | Content Marketing
It’s fun to look back sometimes at how certain things that happened in your life led you to where you are now. For example, when I decided to give full-time freelance writing a shot 13 years ago, things were very different than they are today. Some marketers had just...
