You Can’t Eat Truth Either … But it Still Matters

By Tim Berry

As blogger, former full-time journalist, and long-term entrepreneur, I’m offended from all three sides by journalists complaining that bloggers don’t get paid on the Huffington Post. I’m offended by the envy. The money Arianna Huffington and her investors made on the sale of Huffington Post to AOL was classic entrepreneurship, earned by taking risks. They... Read More »

On Content, Do You Want Quality or Quantity?

By Tim Berry

Do you know the expression “from your lips to God’s ears?” It means “I hope God hears what you just said, because I want it to be true.” I say let’s tell Carol Tice “from your keyboard to God’s eyes” for her Why Content is No Longer King post last week on her Make a... Read More »

5 Good Quick Reads for Small Business Owners

By Tim Berry

These are some posts I noticed during the week. I keep track of them because I intend to do a post of my own on the same thing, but sometimes it’s better to just highlight them and share. These all seem useful to the small business owner and entrepreneur. Six Companies That Did Not Survive... Read More »

3 Posts on Stuff We Know But Frequently Forget

By Tim Berry

Does this happen to you? You read something, love it, realize you sort of knew it, but this author puts it in a new context, new light, or new list, so that it’s very useful to you just to see it again? I found three of those this week in three blog posts: Donna Fenn... Read More »

Tip: Mistakes Are More Fun Than Tips

By Tim Berry

Here’s a continuing trend: tips and what-not-to-do lists get better readership as lists of mistakes.  It’s not a new trend, it’s not a surprising one, but one worth remembering. What reminds me this morning is a collection of posts by Geoffrey James on BNET:  The 8 Stupidest Management Fads of All Time  The 5  Dumbest... Read More »

Good News, Bad News, And True Story on Blogging and Editors

By Tim Berry

The good news and bad news about blogging is editing and editors. Good news: anybody can blog without going through an editor as a gatekeeper. Back in the old days we used to strive to “get published.” Now we just publish. Hooray, we’re free. Bad news: nobody is so good that good professional editing doesn’t... Read More »

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog

By Tim Berry

Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my... Read More »

3 Tech Benefits and 1 Threat for Guru Businesses

By Tim Berry

By guru business I mean the expert business, and particularly the one-person expert business. I mean consultant, coach, adviser, researcher, business hired gun, life coach, trainer, and so on.  I mean a person who makes a living by selling (real or imagined) expertise, experience, and knowledge. I was a business planning consultant for most of... Read More »