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It was March of 2010, and things were looking bleak.
Or maybe it was March of 2011. It could have been either — I had a lot of bleak years. Anyway, on this particular occasion, I had sat down with my mother to go over the financials for my music school, Eclectic Music.
Revenue was fine. But revenue is not really the important number, is it? What really matters is profit, and mine was nonexistent.
Read MoreOn a recent project, I asked for some data from a member of the team.
I was looking for more information on the outliers in the data set — the easily visible spikes.
When I got the report, it had comprehensive information on not only the handful of outliers, but also regarding another twenty-five samples. Everything was presented very prettily — the report must have taken hours.
Read MoreHow would you feel if you learned that a celebrity had reposted something that you shared on social media?
At first, you might be excited and hopeful that this increased exposure would lead to new fans and new opportunities.
For Theatre Dance Brian, the optimism he felt in exactly this situation was quickly crushed. It turned out that Snoop Dogg had reposted his video just to make fun of him, and thousands of people followed his lead.
Read MoreI used to find the Internet, and in particular, social media, an almost intolerable place.
Posts laden with humblebrags and not-so-humble-brags. Comment sections full of people with axes to grind.
And everywhere, people selling, selling, selling. Using their bodies, their children, their black hat tactics, and any other means necessary to gain attention, money, power, or all of the above.
Read MoreNow that the Little Middle School has closed, I can share some stories that I haven’t shared publicly before.
They’re not so bad, it’s just that now I don’t have to worry about how they reflect on the program.
Here’s one: Some unspecified amount of time ago, I received an email from a parent of one of my students, listing all of the things that she thought we should be doing differently.
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