The Popular Be Do Have Method Explained — Here is a simple exercise for getting something you really want when you don’t know exactly how to go about getting it. The exercise requires honesty and the ability to imagine what could be, rather than what is. …

Why paying someone else’s mortgage isn’t a great idea long term — There’s a ton of content already all over the Internet that will lay out renting vs buying so I won’t attempt to rehash all of the obvious reasons here. As a REALTOR® I am clearly Team Homeowner. At the same time, I’m Team Investor. And Team Investor needs Team Renter…

If there is just one piece of advice I would give to millennials about real estate, it would be this: stop overthinking it. Buying or selling a home has nothing to do with birth year. As millennials, you have essentially been branded and bucketed your entire lives, and everything involving…

What is internal product management like, and is it for you? There isn’t a whole lot of information or stories from internal product managers on the internet, so I figured I’d add at least one. From my perspective, internal product management is like an awkward shaped space between business analysis…

Use this easy web content audit template to identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities with your website content. — I recently completed a website audit project for a nonprofit organization through CatchAFire.org. As part of the website audit, I audited every key page’s content, looking for areas of opportunity. To make the process go more quickly and smoothly, I came up with a system for evaluating the content based…

As a researcher running unmoderated user tests, you will eventually make mistakes. Here’s what to look out for. — In a short period of time, I conducted around 50 unmoderated user tests and watched well over 100 hours of video. Most videos were around 10 minutes long, and most tests had 10 videos. Some much longer, some much shorter. I watched the videos at work, and sometimes I was…

The subtle but important difference between input and feedback that can make or break collaboration — I’ve been meaning to write something on this topic for some time, because I so often hear people referring to their collaborative process, only to find out that it’s really not collaborative at all. This comes up often at work, in people management, in teams, and working cross-functionally. …

The good, the bad, and the not impressive: let’s examine the custom 404 pages of popular websites. — To customize or not to customize your 404 page? I hope by now you know the answer is that, yes, under essentially all circumstances you should customize your 404 page. 404 errors occur when someone attempts to visit a URL on your website that doesn’t exist. …

When your emotional bond with your idea is too strong, you won’t be in a position to improve it. — The cross-functional marketing team of designers, analysts, developers, writers and photographers had become emotionally drained. Coming up with creative solutions to real problems was too hard at this point. It was too difficult to come to consensus, agreement, or even acknowledgement of the problems.