The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Oct 12-14, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket.
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| The Brag Basket is open for a wide variety of topics. (CC) by Ausiegall on Flickr |
Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good news and accomplishments that might inspire others. Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing.
What can you do in the Brag Basket?
- introduce yourself
- share some great news from this week
- congratulate a friend
- laugh about something wonderful that you tried that failed
- applaud for each other
Speak up and add yourself or another deserving soul in the comments. It lets you meet each other a bit. Reading each others’ stories brings us a bit closer to being a community.
How does it work? You write a comment on this post. We all cheer, and everyone feels great.
This is not an ad. (I delete the ads.) It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.
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Hey y’all, I’m a long-time fan, sometimes reader, and first-time commenter. Been doing a lot of reading lately, trying to shift my business from strictly web-design into a more well-rounded online marketing solution. Have read Dave Ramsey’s “Entreleadership”, Jon Acuff’s “Quitter: closing the gap between your day job and your dream job”, and most recently, Michael Hyatt’s “Platform: getting noticed in a noisy world”
Understanding that I needed to set some goals for myself, I committed to my very first week-long blog post series over at http://www.goingupward.com that went with one blog post a day for 5 days around the theme of “Upstarts”. It was an attempt to drive up Facebook likes and Email Subscribers.
Still tallying all the votes, but the response thus far has not been as awesome as I hoped, BUT it did rekindle a love I had lost: my love for writing. Committing to doing a post a day for myself was a great exercise in stretching myself and accomplishing some self-starting goals. As I mentioned on Twitter, it even sparked another idea for another series!
Micah, so great to have you jump in the Brag Basket this week! Congratulations on your series, and more importantly, on rekindling your love of writing. I look forward to seeing your new series soon.
My brag this week is a guest post on the well respected Marketing Profs site. woohoo! What Marketers Can Learn from Farmers
Expanding on my knowledge of website building and dealing with the hosting service that isn’t American/local! That has been my challenge and it is so far, NOT WORKING! But that is not because of me not trying — they need to do their part for me to do mine.
Good news? I contacted several business owners yesterday. 2 of them are wanting to do business with me and that is always exciting! One for coaching and the other for managing. It was good day!I got a lot done! I felt like I helped someone – I gave them something to look forward to.
Hi Cheryl, if I can be of some assistance with this, please let me know. 2013 will by 10th year of doing website design professionally, and so I’ve run across plenty of the problems you’re facing many times over. Happy to lend any knowledge I can. Feel free to shoot me an email with details to micahc@goingupward.com
I love to see you folks share resources and help each other out! :D
Cheryl, maybe time to find a host with a small town friendly service attitude! Congratulations on the business leads and giving others something to look forward to.