Andy Capaloff
Curatti
North Bergen, NJ, United States
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The Importance of Work-Life Balance: A Scary and Inspiring True Story
You know that work-life balance is important. But here's a true and inspiring story of someone who almost died learning that. → Read More
Life and Business After Twitter (and Facebook?) #HaveYourSay
When something this potentially seismic unfolds, it's important that as many people's opinions as possible are crowd-sourced. So, below, you'll find our invitation to you to #HaveYourSay. Business After Twitter #HaveYourSay At the last count that I’m aware of, the value of Twitter was down to $8 billion. I'm sure that number has plummeted further. Now, after insisting that employees must work a… → Read More
Decompose Your Skillset to Find Your Strengths (And Weaknesses)
By profession, I’ve always been involved in technology. Starting as a Mainframe programmer (yes, I’m that old!) at the age of 19, I worked my way through several forms of analysis – systems, process, business, and quality assurance. When I tried my hand in the digital world with Curatti, I did so unaware of what it would take to succeed. Hopefully, by showing you how I can decompose my skillset,… → Read More
How To Have Your Outreach Emails Ignored… And How Not To
Or... How To Piss Off Blog Editors… And How To Make Them Happy Maybe nobody should edit a blog for going on 8 years. The longer a blog is around, the larger the volume of contributor outreach emails they receive. Unfortunately, most of these are clueless efforts. And trust me on this, that wears on a person after time. Confession Time The more outreach emails that I see, the greater the number… → Read More
Cryptocurrencies Are a Bridge to The Future – NOT The Future!
There's no denying that fortunes have been made on cryptocurrencies, and entering that is very tempting. But is it a long term strategy? → Read More
Don’t Do These Things In Your Outreach Emails
Do you send out a lot of outreach emails to various blogs? If your response rate and tone are underwhelming, read this article → Read More
Data Redundancy: Why You Need An External Storage Device
Do you know about Data Redundancy? If you work from home, you should. And you should have an External Storage Drive. Here's why.. → Read More
Why Do Most Guest Blogger Outreach Emails Suck?
Most guest blogger outreach emails suck. This post details some common mistakes and some tips from an experienced blog master → Read More
Have You Switched To DuckDuckGo? Here’s Why You Should Consider It
I know we're all joined at the hip to Google. What would life even be without it? But here's why you should switch to DuckDuckGo → Read More
The Best Curation Is Finding Common Threads in Seemingly Disparate Subjects
The Best Curation Is Finding Common Threads in Seemingly Disparate Subjects. It can make for great reading and the next big product or service → Read More
Chickens, Eggs, and Business: What Comes First? 20 (Or So) Questions
What comes first for a new business, or when seeking a new direction for an existing one? The product, the potential customer base or a third possibility? → Read More
When It Comes To Writing Content, Keep It Simple, Stupid!
The KISS theory really needs to be applied to more things in life. And one of the areas it needs to be kept steadfastly to, is content writing. “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.' —Woody Guthrie First, Know Your Audience (KYA) I don’t suppose for one second that your content should be simple if you want it to be consumed by seniors of an Ivy League… → Read More
Blogs, Freebies, and Paywalls: The Value Assignment Conundrum
You must give away stuff to gain trust. But at what point do people start perceiving that what you do has no value? This is the Value Assignment Conundrum → Read More
Tips From a Scared Dumbass: You Too Can Upgrade Your WordPress Site
You need to upgrade your WordPress website. You feel you should be able to do the 'simple' stuff but you're scared. You're not alone! This article will help → Read More
Don't Waste Your Time Writing a Great Article If Your Opening Sucks
Your article opening is second in importance only to the title. But it's shocking how few people seem to know this and write shockingly inane openings... → Read More
The Best Possible Answer To An Imperfect Question Is Still Wrong!
No beating around the bush here. I don’t care who you are, or how good you are at asking incisive questions, you simply cannot ask the best possible questions. At least not without help. Why, you ask? Easy answer! We are all limited by our own life experiences. Sure, we might typically ask better questions than anyone around us. But does that make those questions perfect? Want proof? Do You Have… → Read More
Birthday Ponderings in the Year of Coronavirus
Birthdays are a time for introspection for some. And this year, they're different to any that have come before. Here are a couple of my musings → Read More
So You Have More Time On Your Hands And Want To Take Up Blogging?
Do you have time on your hands and want to get into blogging? Please be yourself. And PLEASE take these simple words of advice... → Read More
If You’re Working From Home, You Need More Data Backups
This will be very short as it’s a single message. I believe that the common wisdom on data backups is wrong. But it’s very easy to fix. The Cloud Is Great But Isn’t The Be All and End All Everyone is trying to sell you Cloud backups. I’m not knocking them. I believe the first big mistake is having only one Cloud backup. There are two reasons why I feel this way – one obvious, the other, not so… → Read More
How To Learn: Lessons From a Baby (Do What You Do, But Do It New)
If we can learn one thing from babies, it's how to learn. When everything is new, nothing seems wrong. It just is what it is... → Read More