Please, someone, anyone, remind me that I'm a smart person. Because I'm surely not feeling it lately. There's something about tax time that raises my self-doubt to the tipping point. (Or maybe it was the addition of a rough stomach virus that had me considering...
After many months and many meetings and many decisions, the new janepollak.com is alive and well and hopefully worth your valuable time and attention. It feels as though my last website went up only weeks ago, but it's been six years. It was time for something new,...
My marketing director took me out to lunch yesterday for a planning session. How cool does that sound? I've been working with this woman-owned company for over a year now. They specialize in helping other women-owned businesses get the word out about their...
I rely heavily on Scarlett De Bease of Scarlett New York for advice on my wardrobe. She's created a look-book for me, which means that every time I need to go out in public and look presentable, I have a photographic album of outfits Scarlett has assembled for me...
I just finished reading Onward by Howard Schultz, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks--lower case letters used by his example. The subtitle of the book is How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul. You may remember the...
What business owner wouldn't feel blessed to have 20 ready-to-work-for-you 20-somethings lining up for face time? That was the premise of an event I attended on Monday night at BeSpoke restaurant in New Haven--an elegant venue with excellent service. Brilliantly...
One of my clients is in that long, dark hallway that seems to lengthen and dim as a huge deadline draws near. She has been relentlessly working toward her vision. Opening day is soon. Her gremlins have formed choruses and are serenading her hourly. "She" is...
I'm going on vacation soon. As I get ready, I realize how important it is to schedule time off. I had no idea what kind of a winter we'd be having back in October when I scheduled a trip south for February. Now that the date has arrived, I couldn't be happier. But,...
Jenifer Howard was the resident expert at 341 Studio's Fresh Intelligence breakfast event this morning. The subject was online PR, at which Jenifer is an expert. While she covered the gamut of online resources and outlets, she spent a great deal of time on twitter....
I work with creative, talented and successful women entrepreneurs. As a rule, the ideas come to them a mile a minute, but there's inevitably the frustration of implementation. What do you do with all those brainstorms and bright ideas? At my mastermind meeting last...
We as business owners all know that the way to capitalize on our resources is to spend our time doing the tasks we do best and delegating the rest. When I was new and young in my business I did it all: data entry (handwriting names on 3x5 cards), producing the...
That's the title atop page 68 in The War of Art, a volume I recently listened to on CD and also own in paperback. The author, Steven Pressfield, likens being an artist to being in the Marine Corps. "The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is...
My younger daughter Laura, to whom my book Soul Proprietor is dedicated, helped me out this week by listening to the soon-to-be-released audio version of the book. Line by line, she read the text while listening to the recording I'd spent the last couple of months...
I'm just back from a stimulating conference in Waltham, MA put on by the National Speakers Association-New England Chapter. The opening keynote speaker was David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR. His talk emphasized doing things in "real...
I rejected the first cover proof of my book Soul Proprietor because the red in the New Edition area was too dark and the type on Lindsey's name bled into the background. My wonderful book designer Kim Barron made the necessary adjustments; we sent it back for...
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