Share Question the Rules is for people who think they might be crazy. For those of you who think you might be the only one who can’t stand to live and work in the normal way anymore. Where the default “shoulds” and rules of society don’t work for you – they don’t make you happy [...]
An Open Love Letter to Twitter
Share Dear Twitter, You say that what you are is “a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.” You are so much more than that, my dear. You are so much more than about sharing facts and figures, feelings and fascinations. More than [...]
Pole Dancing & Poetry: Taking a Sabbatical from Sales & Promotions
Share It’s been 15 years since I wrote a poem. I write blog posts. I write emails. I write tweets. I write outlines for videos. I write marketing copy for the latest new things I’m launching. It just hasn’t occurred to me to write for no reason. No reason except that … that I need [...]
The Truth I'm Not Speaking (Updated)
Share (btw, I updated this post upon the light of day and an important skype conversation.) One week from today is the anniversary of me deciding to live my truth. As I reflect on that journey over the last year, on what I’m writing and creating and my role in bringing this work to the [...]
How to Decide if You Should Buy Build Your Tribe
Share If buy Build Your Tribe, magical fairies will plant money trees in your backyard, you will make millions of dollars while you sleep and have hot sex with beautiful people, and you will fly first class on your neverending world tour, never needing to work again. #notatruestory No, I’m not going to talk you [...]
#1 Resource in Building Your Tribe (& you're missing it)
Share The most important resource for you to find & build your tribe, to develop relationships, to create a community — isn’t twitter or facebook, it’s not email marketing or affiliate management software, it’s not tweetups or telesummits or amazon.com campaigns – the most important resource in building your tribe are your evangelists. If you [...]
3 Ways to Use Twitter Lists to Stalk Your Tribe
Share Stalking people online is an art form. And I don’t mean that crazy stalking that results in me unfollowing & blocking some creepy dude at one in the morning while I’m in Vegas because he is suggesting he may drive across 4 states to find me. #truestory I mean keeping up with the most [...]
#SXSWi pt 2: People Are Human
Share This post started out as a post-sxsw rant. Against how some people got big as a result of being in the right place at the right time but are not really going anywhere, so now they have that defensive “look how cool I am and how many big A-lister names I can drop” thing going [...]
Why SXSW? Why Go to Live Events Anymore?
Share Right now I’m in SFO airport about to board a plane to Austin (via Las Vegas) for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi). But in the age of social media, of being able to connect with people via twitter, facebook, phone, email, skype … why do we need to go to live events at all? [...]







I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.