Epiphanies, Inc.

The "A-Ha!" Blog

03/08/2010 05:53 PM
3 Top Things to Consider for Social Media Strategy - an ADD Info Summit

The Deal: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Info Summits - short blasts of info for adventurous entrepreneurs! Time: 2 minutes, 58 seconds - give it a listen with the Audio Acrobat player below. (Can’t see it? It happens sometimes. Click here ... Read More

03/05/2010 09:53 AM
Our Path to Social Media Certification

Last week, I had a conference call to discuss a potential series of social media workshops we might have done with Leslie Poston, of NH’s Uptown Uncorked and the co-author of Twitter for Dummies. However, Leslie found out earlier that morning ... Read More

The Bitter Cup
A serious blog about satire.

03/13/2010 02:22 PM
It's Stephen Colbert's world - we just live in it

Satirical persona Stephen Colbert is unabashedly self-aggrandizing, mimicking the art of punditry so well that he makes the real articles look pale in comparison. It was, therefore (in hindsight) almost inevitable that the self-anointed great man ... Read More

The Wild Quills Blog
Tickle your inner scribe or scribbler - write here, write now!

09/02/2009 10:16 PM
The Broad Appeal: Plugging the leaks in the D.I.Y. philosophy

Dependency. Co-dependency. Interdependency. Depends undergarments. What do they all have in common? All four absorb life’s unexpected leaks, drips and spillovers. To be dependent on another, you need that person to function. Co-dependent folks ... Read More

What's the Story Behind
Lani, Allen, and Epiphanies, Inc.?

In the beginning (i.e. 1997), Allen bought a bunch of weird books at a Los Angeles bookstore, and Lani rung him up. Soon they started exchanging schmoopie love letters. One day one of these letters was typed to look like an official correspondence – and a fictitious company name appeared out of the blue.

Time passed. Allen got an MBA, Lani took multimedia classes, and soon that same company name was engraved inside their wedding bands.

Then Lani became the head writer for Barbie.com (the #1 girls' brand in the world!), Allen accepted the helm as Editor of DeadBrain.com ("America's Least Reliable News Source"), and little Joseph Allen was born.

A year later, the family moved from the “Entertainment Capital of the World” to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. And on January 2, 2004, the "Live Free or Die" state officially incorporated a “creative content production” business bearing the same company name: Starbucks.

Just kidding. It was Epiphanies, Inc.

It was a good life. The demand for brand-friendly, highly-targeted Web content for corporations and small businesses was never in short supply. But after many years delivering the goods, the duo noticed three things:

Corporations and small businesses don't care as much about the stuff they put out to the world as a few select people who work for them do.

These unique, high-spirited people inevitably leave the cubicle lifestyle to pursue their own hearts, dreams, and vision.

That's when the magic happens.

So Lani and Allen refocused their energies, determined to spend as much of their own time, talents, and expertise to embolden these plucky and gifted folks. Now everything they do is designed to help budding entrepreneurs and small biz dynamos "A-Ha Themselves" in fun and creative ways.

And they do everything they can to walk the walk they're talkin':

Allen's heading into his fourth year as Editor of DeadBrain.com, which won 21 Satire Awards in 2005.

Lani teaches writing and creativity workshops, and publishes the Wild Quills Ezine, carefully crafted to "tickle your inner scribe or scribbler - write here, write now!"

Wanna walk with 'em?

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