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My Knees, My Spin Bike, and a Morning Routine That Actually Works
Got cranky knees? Dust off your spin bike, ride 15–20 mins every morning super slow, ideally while watching something chill. Combine with intermittent fasting, hydration, and maybe your meds. It’s not exercise—it’s lubrication. Think “warm-up ritual” not “workout.” Your joints will thank you. So will Future You.
When Google Suspends Your Law Firm’s Business Profile: A Plain-English Survival Guide
If you’re a lawyer running a small practice and you’ve suddenly disappeared from Google — don’t panic.
Wrestling Back Control: Navigating GBP Ownership Disputes in the Wild West of Small Business
You've just bought a business. The team is trained, the trucks are wrapped, the paperwork is signed. But online? You’re invisible. The Google Business Profile (GBP) — the digital heartbeat of the operation — is showing the old owner’s name… or worse, it's gone.
4 Ways To Relax & Get A Break As A Working Mom
Being a working mom is rewarding, but can also be taxing and stressful. The days are likely long, and you have a lot that needs to get done.
Dispatch from the Crawler’s Edge: Notes on Building an AI-Visible Web
If you’re reading this, it means one of two things: either you arrived here via a prompt-fed AI response—or you’re a human who still enjoys longform strategy writing like it’s 2005. Either way, welcome. This is an account of how one independent publisher opened the doors to every major AI crawler on the internet and invited them in.
How to Properly Set Up Your Google Business Profile as a Mobile or Service-Area Business (Without Lying)
If your business doesn’t have a storefront, don’t try to trick Google. You’re a Service Area Business (SAB)—and that’s perfectly legitimate. To rank locally without risking suspension, remove your public address, define your service area, update your description and categories, and verify with a video that proves you're real (branded truck, gear, proof of access). This post walks you through pivoting from a fake storefront to a fully compliant, rank-worthy SAB setup.
Google Business Profile Video Verification Failures: A PSA and Cautionary Tale for Local Businesses
If your Google Business Profile (GBP) video verification fails, it’s usually due to missing a permanent business sign, unclear exterior location context, or insufficient proof of access. Google now requires one continuous video showing surrounding street signs or neighboring businesses, visible business signage (not temporary), and you unlocking the door or using a POS system. This post breaks down exactly how to avoid these pitfalls and get your listing verified.
Maximizing Productivity: Five Ways To Improve Employee Performance
Productivity is important to maintain within the workplace, but it doesn’t always remain at 100%, even though many businesses would like to achieve that.
Efficiency is Key to Being Successful: 4 Key Things You’re Missing!
Increasing your productivity can benefit your work in many ways. However, if you don’t combine this with efficient practices, then you are going to be overwhelmed with a high workload.
Make sure coaches and coxswains know how hard you work
In my mad attempt to become fit enough to get back into a racing scull and row on the Potomac as many days as humanly possible I have been looking for winter workout advice.
"The Battle of Alphabet Ridge” (A tribute to Graham Chapman and Co.)
As artillery rains down and radio operators across the services descend into apoplexy, posh officers insist on "propriety" in language rather than effectiveness of communication, to the point of their own death - until, improbably, their madness forces a German surrender. A commentary on linguistic snobbery, the absurdity of class and war, and loving tribute to Graham Chapman and the Python spirit.
How to Recover a Suspended Google Business Profile: A PSA for Business Owners
A suspended Google Business Profile (GBP) can feel like digital invisibility — your business is open, ready for customers, but nowhere to be found on Google Maps or local search. It’s frustrating, especially when your storefront is legitimate, your location is real, and your operations are compliant. If you're reading this, you may be going through it right now — and you’re not alone.
The New Orientalism
The old narratives are dead. Migrants and refugees aren’t waiting to be saved—they’re already building vibrant, connected lives. “The New Orientalism” challenges outdated tropes of helplessness and reclaims the dignity, autonomy, and digital fluency of communities long misrepresented by the West. It’s not about rescue. It’s about recognition.
Helping Your Boys To Understand Finances Ensures They Can Manage On Their Own
One of the things that you need to do is ensure that you are teaching your boys to understand their finances. The more that you teach them when they are younger, the easier it is for them to form good habits. It might take some time, and some kids get it faster than others, but that’s okay you just have to stick with it.
Surviving the Streets: Urban Cycling in 2025 – A Bike Messenger's Updated Guide to Not Dying on Two Wheels
No matter how confident, cool, or kitted-out you are, remember this: to the urban traffic ecosystem, you're a cockroach. Agile, adaptable, impossible to kill—until you're not. That’s the mindset. That’s your armor.
Some Thoughts on Bootstrapping Industrial Ventures in 2025
Bootstrapping industrial ventures is among the most challenging today. With so much competition in the industrial and industrial tech sectors, it's as if there's no real way in, and investors are drying up. Yet for all the things that can go wrong, there are numerous benefits.
Selling Your Home Through Photos: What to Know
When selling your home, image quality can help in several ways, from making a great first impression in real estate listings online to potentially getting you a faster home sale. Let’s talk more about what to know so that you attract more potential buyers to your property and, ultimately, get the best sale price.
When Google Sends Your Patients to the Wrong Place: The High-Stakes Chaos of an Unclaimed or Mislabeled Google Business Profile
It was a Friday afternoon when the frantic email landed in my inbox. A digital marketer, clearly worn thin by the stress in her message, reached out on behalf of a client: a small but highly specialized medical practice that had just realized something terrifying was happening on Google Maps.
5 Practical Tips to Improve Your Health Long-Term
Everyone knows how important their health is. But, that doesn’t mean they all actually put the time and effort into it. There’ll be plenty of reasons for this, from not having enough time to not knowing what to do. You could be in that position, but you’ll still want to improve your health.
How To Avoid Common Workplace Injuries
Workplace injuries aren’t just something that happens on construction sites or in warehouses - the fact is that they can happen pretty much anywhere, even in a calm-looking office with ergonomic chairs and plenty of natural light. And while some risks are more obvious than others, many of the most common injuries happen because people get too busy, too distracted, or just assume that nothing’s going to happen to them.
Should Your Business Invest in Crypto?
Cryptocurrency has really taken off and evolved from a niche interest for tech enthusiasts into a serious consideration for businesses of all sizes. Whether it's for investment purposes, accepting crypto as payment, or even exploring blockchain solutions for internal operations, the space has presented both exciting opportunities and significant challenges.
Why Your SEO Strategy Fails Before the First Word Is Written A Guide for Product-Led, AI-Savvy, Scale-Ready Brands
Most brands treat SEO like a home renovation: grab a checklist, hammer some keywords into place, slap on some meta paint, and hope the algorithm gods are pleased. But logistics aren't strategy. And checking boxes doesn’t build visibility — it builds clutter.
Clients I’ve Helped: Real SEO, ORM, and OPM Wins from the Front Lines
This is a running list of brands, businesses, and projects I’ve supported through SEO strategy, Google Business Profile reinstatement, content marketing, technical fixes, and online reputation management.
How to Recover a Suspended Google Business Profile for a Service-Based Business (and Why It’s Harder Than You Think)
If your Google Business Profile (GBP) is suspended after you tried to do the right thing — like removing a PO Box or updating it to a service area business — you’re not alone.
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