Anyone who runs a business knows about burn out: It’s mearly an inevitable part of being at the helm.
No matter how big or small the venture, if you are running things, it’s difficult at times balancing life and what is can throw at you, expected or not.
When I first started pulling the magazine together, I [...]
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Herding Cats
Two of the bigger challenges of running a magazine are taking on interns and guiding the talent.
Interns:
Just about every publication takes on college interns; it’s a cheap or free way to keep things running while at the same time, training those interested in the industry or some aspect of it.
I have had quite a few [...]
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Progress!
In the first couple of months of 2009, attribute magazine went through a stage where we were growing as a publication and into our new vision, yet stagnant in our progression as a website. Then low and behold the person I had been searching (and praying) for to help that progress along, entered stage left [...]
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Broadening Our Horizons
It came to light that attribute was reaching an audience we hadn’t intended: We couldn’t ignore this was happening, we had to embrace it. At the same time, I managed to receive some unexpected recognition by being submitted to and placed on the Ode Magazine, 2008 (and first) Intelligent Optimists list. There were some pretty [...]
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Live and Learn
I left off last, with attribute magazine’s brand new website up and running, but being given little understanding of how to use it after the designer went AWOL. I was also gainfully employed at that time…
For weeks (okay, actually, it was months—and we are still learning) after the site was done and after the site [...]
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Building a team…
In the first installment, I left off asking the question, ‘how would I convince complete strangers to come on board attribute magazine’.
I had no funding, no brand, no product—just a vision and a passion. I barely had friends in the San Francisco Bay Area (where I lived), let alone a community of connections to tap [...]
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