Small Business Essentials

Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship A list of what being an entrepreneur is really like.

How To Become a Better Blogger By Not Reading Blogs Anyone can follow a herd; your best results are going to come from blazing your own path.

Using the Hedonic Treadmill To Be More Productive Our happiness stays in pretty much the same place regardless of what happens to us in life, so quit procrastinating because it’s not going to make you any happier.

Selling in Three-Part Harmony Sales are about relationships, not manipulation.

I wanted a better way to showcase the really great stuff that I come across by other blog authors. I had been using my shared items feed from Google Reader, but I’m not the biggest fan of Google Reader and the options for display were very limited. (I’ve been trying Google Reader for nearly a [...]

Picking the Right Tool: Why Absolutes Aren’t the Path to Success Rob May discusses why your business should be built using a toolbox, not using one tool.

I have been pondering my goals for this year in the past few weeks, and I have come up with one common thread: Less. How is less a goal, you might ask? Well, I think if I can retrain my habits to keep less in mind, I can actually get more of the things that [...]

I have been getting a lot of traffic in the past few weeks from StumbleUpon. I was discussing this with a colleague of mine, and he asked me how I attract traffic from StumbleUpon. The answer is: I don’t. I do my best to write good content, and the links will follow. It’s not about [...]

The January edition of the Carnival of Trust is up now. I’d highly recommend it for some thought-provoking reads. The Carnival is spearheaded by Charles H Green of Trusted Advisor; you can see other editions of the Carnival of Trust here. I know that not all of the entries in this particular carnival are completely [...]

I like Skellie better than Darren Rowse. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, Darren Rowse is the owner of the very popular site Problogger, which gives tips to people who are looking to learn about blogging. Skellie is a young writer who he hired in late 2007 to be [...]

As some of you may recall, I wrote a feature article for Startup Nation entitled 5 Steps to Marketing your Website. Starting this week, a companion podcast series will be released on the same website. The first one has been released, and you can listen to it here: Marketing your Website #1 of 5: Focus [...]

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists for January 7, 2008. This is the first CotC for the year, and perhaps the last of its kind. This site, Small Business Essentials, provides information for small business owners and entrepreneurs on a variety of topics. My company is also available for hire if [...]