balancing

In yesterday's "For Immediate Release," I noted that Joseph Edward Duncan had maintained a blog. Duncan, in case you're not following the story, was found in a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho restaurant with a young girl who, along with her brother, had been missing for about six weeks following the disocvery of the bludgeoned bodies ofher mother, her mother's boyfriend, and an older brother.

At the Syndicate Conference, I had a couple great conversations with two people from PubSub's newest PR firm, PAN Communications, who just won the business a month ago.

My post on Personalization and Socialization rustled a few feathers, as intended. Susan Mernit captured the key point: customized personalization-- smart, self-adjusting, filtered system--limits discovery.

The pace of life seems to quicken every year. More and more time is spent rushing from job to after school activities or evening meetings. It's easy to get over whelmed and to loose a sense of family and relaxation in our homes. Here are a few ideas to help strengthen your family and to keep some of life's pressures and stresses out of the home.

What's more stressful? A workload that requires a long stretch of 10- to 12-hour days? Or a slow and quiet flow of work that forces you to eat up your financial cushion and leaves you borrowing to make your mortgage payment? Both extremes are troubling beyond measure and both are common in the unpredictable world of business ownership. Even the largest companies stretch and contract with the business cycle and with changes in the marketplace.

Have you ever noticed that no matter which "advertising guru" you listen to, something always seems to be missing? That's because something IS missing! Advertising is a mix... not a one-item shopping list. There is a combination of elements at play that make advertising work. Leave one of those elements out and you are likely to see poor results.

With the holidays around the corner, you may find yourself struggling to keep your home-based business and your home life separate and running smoothly. And you're not alone.

Once you've surfed the web, you can't help but notice all the ads and websites meant to hook the hordes of "work-at- home wannabes".