How Steve Jobs Sparks His Creativity--and How You Can Too!
Chris Heiler | March 18, 2010
Imagine yourself for a moment, sitting at your drafting table staring at a blank sheet of paper. You've just been hired to design the gardens and grounds of an estate on a scale of which you have never experienced. Are you up to the challenge? . . .
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Share Your Work, and Your Story, With the World
Chris Heiler | March 11, 2010
To this day a family portrait hangs on the wall of my parent's home--my mother in a turtle neck sweater, my father with a dark beard, my brother in a shirt that should have been worn by Sonny Crockett and, finally, me with my bowl-cut hair standing less than 5',0" tall. This isn't exactly the best representation of our family . . .
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Ambition vs. Sloth: Which Side Are You On?
Chris Heiler | March 4, 2010
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer . . .
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Copy Success by Finding a Bright Spot
Chris Heiler | February 25, 2010
The following is an excerpt from a Fast Company magazine article, originally adapted from Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by best-selling authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath . . .
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The Three Letter Word That Guarantees Success
Chris Heiler | February 18, 2010
When I was 12 years old I remember adding "a pound of bacon and cheese" to my annual Christmas list. I was a pretty simple kid; although maybe a bit odd :-). I was crushed Christmas morning when I didn't receive my pound of bacon and cheese. My mother told me that she didn't think I was serious . . .
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Stay In Touch With Your Past Clients
Chris Heiler | February 11, 2010
A piece of advice I hear thrown around quite often, especially in a terrible economy, is that we need to focus even more on building our relationships with past clients and customers . . .
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Barrier-Free Blogging with Posterous
Chris Heiler | January 7, 2010
For this week's Profit Tip I want to introduce you to a fantastic and relatively new way to blog. Most of you have probably heard of the three most popular blogging platforms available--Wordpress, Blogger and Typepad . . .
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Highway to the Creative Zone
Chris Heiler | December 16, 2009
As I write this, I'm looking out my window at 6" of snow cringing at the thought of Nebraska in January. Why Nebraska? Because I'll be speaking at the Nebraska Nursery and Landscape Association's annual conference about 7 Proven Ways to Work Less by Working Smarter . . .
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The Chameleon: All Things to Everyone
Chris Heiler | December 2, 2009
I was having such a great day I had to have some fun with this week's Profit Tip. I dropped Charlie off at day care and on my way home I heard one of my favorite songs from the 80's--Run Runaway by Slade. Not to get off topic here, but Slade absolutely made Quiet Riot . . .
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