Steve Ells started Chipotle as a way to fund his dream to open an upscale restaurant. He kept the menu and the process simple. He found a model that worked and brought it to Denver. He got a loan from his dad and opened the first Chipotle in 1993. Chipotle took off. It is now…
Archives for November 2017
The Perfect Use of Twitter
Twitter is getting a lot of criticism these days and starting to experiment with some changes to attract more users. Twitter has always been my favorite social network. You can communicate with anyone. You can make connections with people in your field that you would have never met otherwise. It has the potential to lead…
Writer Tip: Exaggerate Your Character’s Thoughts and Feelings
Teenage boys don’t think a lot about their emotions. Teenage boys in books, however, should. I just finished James Dashner’s The Maze Runner and now I’m on to the sequel, The Scorch Trials. Dashner helps the reader understand what the main character is going through by frequently describing an internal dialogue and set of emotions….
Strategies without Stories Don’t Make Sense
I finished a chapter in the book I’m writing and read through what I wrote. It wasn’t working. It felt empty. I didn’t feel what I was trying to say. What was it missing? Stories and examples. It is easy to describe a strategy and a process to accomplish a goal. It’s also easy to…
NaNoBlogMo: Why Blog Every Day?
Seth Godin blogs every day. He says everyone should do this: Everyone should blog, even if it’s not under their own name, every single day. If you are in public, making predictions and noticing things, your life gets better, because you will find a discipline that can’t help but benefit you. (Source) Fred Wilson, a…
