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Harmonic Marketing

My friend Sam Barry has just published a book.
That isn’t surprising – after all, he’s a bright guy and works for a company that publishes books. Although, they didn’t publish HIS book, which probably made for some really hurt feelings. I mean if you were a cake decorator and your sister went somewhere else to [...]

Book Review – Not So Fast

Somewhere along the way we’ve come up with the idea that we were put on the Earth to accomplish every day as much as we possibly can and that the Parable of the Talents admonishes  us to not be seen as “poor stewards” of the time God has given us. The result is a bunch [...]

Book Review – Gardening Eden

Michael Abbate’s Gardening Eden is everything I had hoped it would be:
Well-written
Authoritative
Fresh
Honest
Grounded
Abbate combines his experience as a landscape architect and his knowledge of biblical text to present a compelling argument for his assertion that Christians should be at the leading edge of environmental protection.
“People of faith claim to know the the Artist but lack any [...]

Free advice?

I’d like to improve conversion rates on my web site. 
SEO is actually pretty good – in some key word combos I show above the fold on Google.
Traffic is decent – between 10 and 30 unique visitors on an average day. Some days less. And I’m OK with that because what I do is fairly narrow. 
The dilemma is [...]

Book Review – Crossing The Lines (fiction)

As a kid growing up in a quiet northern California suburb, the early days of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s came only as close as our black & white TV screen and the occasional photo-spread in LIFE magazine. Richard Doster brings those images to real life in Crossing The Lines, his second [...]

Author Talk – One Year Mini for Leaders

Book Review – The Sticking Point Solution

There is nothing more frustrating than being stuck.
Stuck in traffic. Standing in line. Sitting on hold. Like passengers crammed into a crowded plane waiting to take off, there’s often nothing you can do about being stuck. That’s the worst part, isn’t it? Not being able to get UNstuck. Not being able to blast through the [...]

Getting to where you want to be

The Compass
Vanguard Press – June 2009
Jonathan Taylor’s wife and only daughter are involved in a violently fatal car crash at an intersection near their home and after two months of counseling Taylor decides to fill a backpack and head out on a journey of healing that begins in the Nevada desert.  “[I] left suburbia for [...]