Santa mug in hand, tree strung with lights, all gifts purchased, and several holiday gatherings in, I’m crushing December. Pay no mind to the child who’s been home sick with the flu every day this week or the fact that the aforementioned tree is only strung with lights, it’s decor remains in a box. Instead […]
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas is truly my favorite and we’re in the season. Since the vid stole Christmas last year, our calendar seems twice as full this year and it makes me so incredibly happy. I have a whole section of my wardrobe dedicated to Christmas clothes and this year […]
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Another year old and another year wiser so these weekly write-ups should be gettin’ real good. As is so often the case, reading these combined with presenting our monthly client reporting leads to themes that unfold and present themselves in such an obvious way that they might as well have knocked me upside my head. […]
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It’s the most important day of the year, my birthday. It’s also a great day to be writing The ONeil Edit, because this week there was plenty to cover. Not the least of which was the Zillow news. That news alone could be the entire contents of this newsletter but alas, other things also happened […]
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It’s been a week y’all. I went into the week thinking, “oh this is gonna be an easy one; it’s the end of the month, client meetings are sparse, my to-do list seems manageable.” Boy was I wrong. Seemingly from the ether I had meetings and to-do’s up to my eyeballs and I wasn’t alone. […]
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As our premiere episode for Season 3 of Homefiniti and Beyond Megan joined me to discuss 3rd quarter 2021 digital marketing benchmarks for homebuilders and 2022 marketing budgets for homebuilders. Both hot topics after the doozy of a year that has been 2021. An explosive January led to a strange Spring in which we actually […]
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Tomorrow my youngest turns 13. To celebrate, we fulfilled her longtime dream of having a golden retriever puppy. I surprised her last Saturday by driving her 2.5 hours to the breeder so she could select her pup and bring her home. She named her Lexi Jo and I’ve spent every night since Saturday on puppy […]
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Each week as I comb through my newsletters and reflect on the conversations we had in the office, I think about what I want to convey through these weekly posts and how I want them to be read. This week, I’ve been thinking more about why I write them. This may or may not be […]
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The tooth extraction did not go as planned. It involved one dentist, two oral surgeons, a Google My Business listing, and three appointments in as many days. I’ve never been so happy to bid a piece of me adieu. In the middle of all that Facebook and Instagram ceased to exist for 6 hours. Needless […]
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You all, I am officially old. I cracked a tooth eating dinner on Wednesday night and after spending 2 hours in the dentist’s chair last night, was informed that the tooth must be pulled, Womp Womp. Putting a damper on what would have otherwise been a lovely week and a fun filled weekend. Another old […]
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I’m writing this while drinking my coffee and wearing joggers and a sweatshirt, knowing that this evening we’re hosting a giant bonfire where I will provide to our guests one of my famous cheese boards, some yummy in the tummy gumbo served with a side of my homemade whole wheat sourdough (from a starter that […]
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Last week my husband and I went to Nashville for a quick 3 day getaway, thus no Edit was published. Having never been to Nashville, I wasn’t sure what to expect. My takeaways were that Nashvegas is an apt nickname, the people who live and work there possess more patience than I ever could for […]
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I started this edition headed in one direction but after having fully vetted the articles that I want to pass on to you, I changed direction completely. This week has been one that is full of directional shifts and the newsletter was not spared. Shifting mindsets, shifting budgets, shifting priorities, shifting markets, shifting needs, and […]
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My oldest started high school today (not exactly, it’s just freshman orientation but still). And I’d like to inform you that I can’t possibly be old enough to be the parent of a high school student because in my head I am still only about 25 years old. But alas, here I stand, having conversations […]
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Oh hi mid-August-nearly-September-back-to-school-chaos-is-upon-us season! That’s what happens when you go on vacation for the first week in August. I’ve got less than 48 hours to secure school shoes for my kids before tax free week ends, next week I head to DYC and the following week sports tryouts begin for my newly minted high schooler. […]
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