On the show What Not to Wear, style gurus Stacy London and Clinton Kelly take people from drab to fab during a one week fashion makeover in New York City.
If you think this is purely vain, then you haven’t watched the show. Most of the people who are chosen for a makeover have some internal […]

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Taking Risks and Making Money a fantastic post about being BOLD by guest blogger Ryan Stewart over at Shoemoney.com
Top 40 Logo Inspiration Resources - eLogoDesign
Are We Failing Our Geniuses? - TIME Magazine
Why Color is Critical - yet another fine post from Creative Curio

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She doesn’t look like someone living with cancer and that’s the point. Four years ago Kris Carr was diagnosed with an incurable cancer, but she didn’t crawl into bed hoping the healthcare industry would magically develop a cure before her last breath..
After her diagnosis, Carr traveled the country, trying experimental treatments and holistic methods. […]

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Eleven steps to buying a domain name that doesn’t suck - CNet
Firms Go Online to Train Employees - Startup Journal (WSJ)
Top 10 Internet Home Businesses Ideas You Can Start and Run in Your Underwear - eMomsAtHome

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1. Fortune favors the bold.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
2. Maps encourage boldness. They’re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
- Mark Jenkins To Timbuktu
3. In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
4. Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
- Virgil (70 […]

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B-to-B More Likely to Spend on New Media than B-to-C - Conversation Agent
Create Some Space - Creative Curio

What Users Spend Half Their Time Doing… - Passion 2 Publish by Bud Caddell
The path to failed innovations - getFreshMinds.com
Big media hunts for Web cred, again - USA Today

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Setting boundaries may seem counterproductive to the YES Mentality, but therein lies the irony. Good boundaries actually empower your YES.

Create Partnerships Instead of Overpromising
If a client comes to us and wants a print brochure or a trade show display, that falls outside our service offering. But if we partner with other vendors in the marketing […]

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Yesterday, I wrote about applying the principle of Yes And to your business. Today, I’m going to take it a step further and talk about saying YES more and saying NO less.
A while back I was reading a magazine article that encouraged parents to say YES to their children more. The idea was to allow […]

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Start your hump day off with a coffee break from Bold:
Those Who Can, Do… Those Who Can’t, Criticize - Success from the Nest
You’re Not Listening to Your Audience: The Flaw in Your Website Design - Search Engine Guide
eMarketer Report Indicates Need for Better Online Video Ads - Mashable
Why Full Text Feeds Actually Increase Page Views […]

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I am a student of improv, and one of the core principles of good improv is the concept of “Yes And.” There’s an exercise taught by many an improv teacher with 2 students involved. The first student delivers a line, any line. The next student’s response must begin with “Yes, and…”
For example.
Student A: “I love […]

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