Comments on: When Fine Is Plenty

By: Naomi Dunford on Goal Setting « Emily Joyner’s Loose Leaves

Naomi Dunford on Goal Setting « Emily Joyner’s Loose Leaves — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:44:34 +0000

[...] – Naomi Dunford @ IttyBiz [...]

By: Getting back in the game | Dancing Geek

Getting back in the game | Dancing Geek — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:55:37 +0000

[...] that even if I am not a god at something, I do have skills that other people will pay for (in areas that I want to break into, rather than areas I’m already established [...]

By: The Ultimate List of Freelancing Resources 26-50

The Ultimate List of Freelancing Resources 26-50 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:51:02 +0000

[...] When Fine Is Plenty Naomi Dunford rips the cult of “excellence” to shreds, and explains why sometimes being “fine” or “average” is good enough. [...]

By: The Ultimate List of Freelancing Resources 26-50 | Joshua Clanton - Design for the WEB

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:07:02 +0000

[...] When Fine Is Plenty Naomi Dunford rips the cult of “excellence” to shreds, and explains why sometimes being “fine” or “average” is good enough. [...]

By: 6 Weeks

6 Weeks — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:46:23 +0000

[...] will never be perfect. They will never be complete. But they are good enough. The time is now. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers [...]

By: Stephen Hopson

Stephen Hopson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:56:33 +0000

Well done article! I came over here at the suggestion of Christine O’Kelly who made a mention of this article in one of her comments at Self Made Chick.

I smile, laughed and giggled through this article because it was totally revelant and on target. Some of us are striving to be the next Jesus when really we’ll be just fine being ourselves. I think what you wanted to say but didn’t was: be authentic. Just be yourself man. That’s what you were trying to say, right?

For instance, I know I’m not Winston Churchill orator nor do I want to sound like former President Clinton (who I have been told is an excellent speaker). All I need to know is that being genuine and transparent is enough to win over just about any audience I speak to. Even hard core blue collar workers in some of my audiences have ‘woken up’ and responded to me because of my willingness to be authentic.

Right on – I loved your article!! Isn’t that something – all these success articles, speeches, books are telling us that we have to be the next Jesus or something thereof in order to be deemed “successful.” What a hoot!

By: How I Boosted My Confidence In 5 Minutes And Made Over $5000 : Million Dollar Leverage

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:04:51 +0000

[...] services as a 5. After all, why would someone pay for a freaking 5 when they can get a 10? Well, as Naomi Dunford so eloquently pointed out, there’s a huge-a$$ market in the 0 to 4 range. Excellence is [...]

By: Anthony Lawrence

Anthony Lawrence — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:19:10 +0000

Here’s something interesting:

Have you ever looked down at the bottom of http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/ittybiz.com and expanded the list of your rank in other countries?

It seems that IttyBiz is extremely popular in Eritrea (yeah, I had to look it up too), having a traffic rank of 402.

You don’t do so well in Moldova (41,684) and apparently the Belgium’s don’t care for you much.. that’s OK, France doesn’t care much for my site; you have to take the good with the bad: I do VERY well in Moldova :-)

Don’t you think you should do something special for the Eritreans?

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:26:05 +0000

Haha, thanks Naomi for the link – My website was blank as I was changing my hosts at that time and was working a few kinks out but http://justcreativedesign.com is now online again :)
And it is true, not everyone needs masterpieces.

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:50:44 +0000

@ Dave – I had to look him up too. I wasn’t even sure I had the right dude. I turned to Jamie, “Do you know who Adam Smith is?” “The economist?” he asks, without missing a beat. I’m like, uh… I guess?

@ Lea – Thanks, sweetie! It’s funny at FSW – I was reading one of Skellie’s posts and people were going nutso. I don’t get it. Even if I think the writer is a stark, raving lunatic, I just have better things to do with my time than talk shit about them in the comments section. I’d rather talk shit here and get page views for my efforts. :-)

@ some other Naomi – You raise a good point with the boredom thing – I know I certainly experience that, too. I think in some capacities, even if you run your own business, it’s just a job. When I’m working on my novel (she says, with no novel actually being worked on) I want to bust ass. But if I’m writing somebody’s About Me page for them, I’m just not going to put my own blood into it, you know? For me, anyway, I just don’t have the energy to pour everything I have into writing a keyword article. A lot of people would say I should be spending the time on the novel, and they’re probably right, but right now I’m content to be lazy. :-)

@ Michael Martine – Yes. Exactly. Let’s just pretend I said that, shall we?