How to Accomplish Your Goals
In this video interview between Shawn Blanc and Mo Bunnell, learn about keeping a healthy balance between work and personal life, maintain margin in your schedule, and how to stick with your goals.
Continue Reading ›All My Notes and Takeaways from Jeff Goins’ Tribe Conference for Writers
Tribe is a creative and business conference for writers. It was a delight to meet with so many folks from all spectrums of the writing world: from self-published authors, to bloggers, and more.
This was my first year to attend the Tribe conference, put on by Jeff Goins in Nashville, and it was a blast. Here are all my notes and takeaways. Enjoy!
Continue Reading ›Behind the Scenes of My First “Mastermind Retreat”
About a month ago, I hosted 12 other guys in Breckenridge for a 3-day retreat. It was an “un-conference” so to speak. As an indie writer, I’ve been going to conferences and events for years. As I wrote back in 2012 when I was in San Francisco for Macworld, “I’m not here for the event,
Continue Reading ›All My Notes From the Craft + Commerce Conference
Downtown Boise is wonderful. This was my first time there, and I was amazed at how fantastic the downtown area was. It’s easy and fun to walk around, and there are tons of great restaurants and coffee shops. The reason I was in Boise was for the first Craft + Commerce conference hosted by ConvertKit.
Continue Reading ›Mo Bunnell’s Best Quarter Ever
Mo Bunnell is the founder and CEO of Bunnell Idea Group. He’s a business development coach living in Atlanta with his wife and daughters. In the summer of 2015, Mo signed up for The Focus Course. As Mo shares in the video, things were already going pretty well. But after completing the Focus Course and
Continue Reading ›What I Learned at My First Marketing Conference
Last week I was in San Diego for an online marketing conference. And I was blown away by the quality of the event. This was my very first “marketing” conference. And, to be candid, I wasn’t sure what to expect. My stereotyped assumption of marketing events is that they’re filled with tons of hype and
Continue Reading ›The Value of Focusing on One Thing at a Time (Video)
There is significant value in having a clear goal, a single focus, and a deadline. When you have these things you work with greater efficiency, you produce a higher quality of work, and you have more fun doing so.
This is one of those things that we know in principle, but many of us do not actually walk it out. We take on every new idea we have, we say yes to too many incoming opportunities, and we just generally have too much going on at any given time.
Continue Reading ›A New Type of Work Schedule We’re Experimenting With in 2017
For 2017 we decided to trying something new here at the Blanc Media Global Headquarters. It’s an 8-week schedule with six weeks spent on focused work, a single buffer week, and then a week of vacation.
Continue Reading ›The Characteristics of a Successful Company
As I’ve mentioned, the half-day Basecamp event in Chicago had a huge impact on me. It has given me much food for thought in terms of how to create an entire company that has margin. My experience working for organizations — large and small — is that things are generally disorganized and everything is urgent
Continue Reading ›The Basecamp Way To Work: Workshop Retrospective
This half-day workshop in Chicago had a massive impact on my approach to building a business, managing my time (and the time of those I work with), and more.
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