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It’s Not That I Wasn’t Listening But I Can’t Remember Your Name

by Michelle Barry Franco July 29, 2010 mindfulness

One time I called a good friend of mine and her husband answered the phone. I consider her husband a friend, too, if but one layer away in the circle than my friend. The point is – I totally know his name. “Hello?”, he husks out in his lovely voice. A voice with which I [...]

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Results from Small Business & Private Practice Marketing Survey

by Michelle Barry Franco April 13, 2010 business planning

Jeez, I feel so lucky and warm inside from all of your responses to the nine question survey I put out there a few weeks ago. I had 35 really rich, engaged, fabulous responses. I think my favorite thing about this is that I didn’t offer anything in return for the time you all spent [...]

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Networking & Marketing for Artists, Artisans & Designers

by Michelle Barry Franco March 9, 2010 authenticity

My friend and client, Maya of Maya Moon Designs, makes seriously stunning handmade leather handbags. I mean she MAKES them, from concept to design to sewing every stitch of the piping on every one of her pieces of practical fashion art. I am blown away regularly by her ideas and creativity. Her gifts are way [...]

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Blogging Leads to More of Your Right Clients

by Michelle Barry Franco March 3, 2010 blogging

Starting a blog can feel daunting. I know because I thought about blogging a long time before I started to do it myself. Even then, I struggled to really get into blogging. I think the reasons for this struggle are similar for many of us who are in heart-felt business endeavors: 1. We like to [...]

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How to Use Twitter When You're Not That Funny

by Michelle Barry Franco February 5, 2010 Twitter

When I first started using Twitter about a year ago (or whenever), I was perplexed about it. Who isn’t, really? Actually, there’s a good chance that you may not even be on Twitter, maybe for the same reasons I almost jumped the Twitter ship. (I thought about combining Twitter and Ship there for a minute, [...]

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Lessons from Behind the Podium

by Michelle Barry Franco January 30, 2010 Uncategorized

I was granted another five minutes of Ignite-style fame yesterday at the Central Oregon AdFed meeting, along with ten other mighty fine presenters. As is so often the case at one of these events, I took away at least as many tidbits about public speaking as I did about the topics of the meeting (in [...]

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Almost Like A Real Coffee Date

by Michelle Barry Franco January 6, 2010 entrepeneurialism

Sometimes living in a rural(ish) area – as stunningly gorgeous as my town of Bend, Oregon is – can feel so isolated. We have really smart people here and passion abounds. But, for the most part, people don’t move here to start a business. They move here to live amidst crystal blue skies (300+ days [...]

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Say What You Mean – and Be Care-Full

by Michelle Barry Franco December 15, 2009 messaging

Yesterday I attended a private author’s reception held at The Loft for Lorelei Shellist. Lorelei just self-published a soul-revealing book called Runway Runaway about her love affair with Steve Clark, who was the guitarist for Def Leppard. It’s about lots of other things too (drugs, sex, survival, modeling, growth, spirit…), but her romance with Steve [...]

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Lose Your Elevator Pitch

by Michelle Barry Franco December 9, 2009 entrepeneurialism

When is the last time you actually made eye contact with a stranger in an elevator, much less exchanged meaningful conversation about your respective businesses? Seriously, the Elevator Pitch is a useless concept for most of us. Here’s the real scenario that we all run into regularly – the one for which we really need [...]

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