How Many Writing Newsletters Do You Need?

My Big Blend Magazine column this month is titled: “How Many Writing Newsletters Do you Need?” As my mailbox fills up with more than I care to say on a daily basis, I discovered many are duplicated content. Good content, but the same as someone else’s a day or two before. That isn’t...

Success-Tip from Peter Drucker on Unexpected Success

I have always been an avid reader of Peter F. Drucker’s thirty five books, one of them co-authored with my father, Russ Colley. Peter Drucker is known as “the original big thinker.” Drucker said this about unexpected success, “It takes an effort to perceive unexpected success as...

Success – Creativity 2

The following excerpt is from 2009 INDIE Finalist, “Success, Your Path to a Successful Book,” by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. We are both strongly committed to creativity. Our first exposure to Creative Problem Solving (CPS) was with the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI). They...

Success Tip–Keep on Top of the World Around You

Since I met Maralyn decades ago, she has always been aware of this success objective. She has kindly repeated it often to her team and members of IFWTWA. It is critical to keep fully on top of what is happening in the workplace of our wide world. We all, teens and seasoned writers, need to understand...

Success Tip – Charging for Work

The Hill Team learned some of their lessons for success the hard way. Think twice or say “no” before deciding not to charge for your work. People often don’t value what they don’t pay for. However, there are times when you will determine it is a marketing expense. If that is the...