Good morning, dear readers. Jane would like to make a short announcement before posting today: yesterday Jane spent the better part of an hour turning categories on in Lip-sticking. We hope that having the Tuesday Fit by 5, the Wednesday book review (which starts tomorrow) and the Thursday interviews in... Read more →
This disappointing -- and disturbing -- headline in Sunday's newspaper made Jane sigh, very loudly: Pay Gap Between the Sexes Widens. The story goes on to note that "women see drop in income; earn 75.5 cents per $1 men earn." I would link to the story, it's from USA TODAY,... Read more →
Jane reporting from the front lines. Jane and her significant other, Tom, a recovering lawyer (visit his knowledge management blog and see what the legal profession is up to these days), conducted their first Blogging Boot Camp yesterday, at a local computer training center in Rochester, NY. The seminar ran... Read more →
Lip-sticking is starting to get the hang of this interview thing. We have been very fortunate to have posted interviews with so many outstanding men and women who were willing to share their expertise on marketing, business, being online, and blogging, that it's hard to come up with appropriate adjectives... Read more →
Tuesday morning; fall is already making a stealthy move on summer. The air is snappish -- promising more crisp mornings that welcome us out to stroll the quiet neighborhood...before the school buses begin their lumbering trek throughout the streets, screeching to a halt at every other house to pick up... Read more →
Shopping -- it's a woman's playground. Why do you suppose all those print ads appear in the Sunday newspaper every weekend? Can all of those stores be having a new sale every week? Or, are they merely recycling the old sale by giving it a new name? It's the latter,... Read more →
As my fiance and I prepare our Business Blogging Bootcamp, scheduled for Saturday, August 8th, I am rethinking the business blogging performance arena. Who's doing what, and why. Who's writing about it and are they knowledgeable; are their comments worth a moment's contemplation? In all, it seems blogging is creating... Read more →
A New Meme That Raises Your Blog's Google Rankings! By Nova on Weblogs This posting is a new, improved, second-generation meme experiment that is designed to spread faster and more broadly than the first meme experiment. This new meme is simply better because it's more beneficial to you to participate.... Read more →
Saturday, August 21st, 2004 -- Jane is winding down a busy week of writing, meetings, musings, and research. It's almost nine months since our book Dickless Marketing: Smart Marketing to Women Online went live online and at Amazon.com as well as Barnes and Noble. Nine months...the same amount of time... Read more →
Lip-sticking has a unique lady for our interview today. Ruth Balkin is a member of the Rochester Professional Consultants Network in, of all places, Jane's hometown of Rochester, NY, and she's an information knowledge management professional. She's a tiny lady with a bright smile and a wild sense of humor.... Read more →