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Help Avenue Z Find a New Look!
Now that I’ve moved into a new office building, I want to rework my business cards and dump the logo design I created at 3 a.m. two days after I quit my day job. Please help me find the look that best...
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The Honest Truth: It Just Doesn’t Matter
This morning I paid a visit to my friendly, neighborhood printing store (PB Printing), where Mario the manager was on hand to listen to my latest tales of printing mishaps. “I have a business card...
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The Road Less Traveled Might Not Get You There
About a month after I started my business, I created the most successful marketing campaign I’ve ever had. I sent about 50 letters to business owners with a pitch about how I could help their business....
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If you enjoy Avenue Z, please give a little something back
My dear readers, I’m at it again…On February 28, 2010, I will run my 5th marathon, this time the Mardi Gras Rock & Roll Marathon in New Orleans. Frankly, I can’t figure out why I continue running...
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Am I allowed to be scandalous?
The last couple of days have been very exciting. This fall I read one of my short stories at a DimeStories event, and it tickled the funny bone of a reporter for The San Diego Reader. When he wrote a...
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Need new contacts? Step outside your box
For the second year I’m hosting the Avenue Z Virtual Food Drive (you HAVE to see the new cool site. Click here and Pledge!), and I’m hoping for TWICE the donations as last year (click here for the...
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Retreat! Retreat!
So, the contract is signed, and the book is begun. Holy smokes. The entire manuscript, complete with hundreds of graphics, dozens of contributions and about 200 pages, is due to the publisher May 1....
View ArticleThat’s all she wrote: A pictorial history as Avenue Z closes
This weekend I sent off the final file for the final project for the final client of Avenue Z Writing Solutions. Yep. That’s it. I retired from the copywriting biz to write more books and make a living...
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I need your help, but then again, right now I need everyone’s help
This is another one of those posts that I really hesitate to write because it would be nice to live the myth that publishing my first book equates to instant success. But I’ve always tried to tell the...
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Back to Square One, Again
Last year the woman I ran my first marathon with contracted cancer, and three weeks ago, she passed away. In her honor, I’m running my sixth marathon — back to the one we ran together, the San Diego...
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