I have worked for clients with a wide variety of content management software and strategies — WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, ColdFusion, publishing through programs like Dreamweaver and FrontPage, proprietary systems, using PHP includes, no system at all (using flat HTML files) — and WordPress is by far the easiest for the web developer, the marketing/content person, [...]
Jan 10
Looking for Profiles in Business
Do you own your own small business, start-up, or provide a service while working from home? I want to hear from you! Please contact me if you want to participate in my upcoming "5 Questions" series where I will send you 5 questions about your work to provide short answers for. The benefit of this [...]
Jan 09
E-mail Processing and Decluttering
I was recently linked to a video of Merlin Mann’s GTD way of going through his e-mail inbox. If you don’t have a whole hour to watch it (who does?), let me help you out by summarizing what I found to be the most important points worth knowing — and what strategies I found useful in going through my own backlog of e-mail.
Apr 02
Bad Habits
I’ve been going through a lot of life changes recently, and this state of flux has created some bad habits for me. I get like this when my life gets too busy or I have a lot of projects going on that are particularly draining. So what do you do when this happens? I’ve basically [...]
Mar 10
Kudos to … Alltop and Me!
I just wanted to say a quick bit about Alltop Small Business. I’ve been using it as a home page for about a month now and it’s been really useful so far. Alltop is a collection of stories from "all the top" sites on the web in a single-page aggregation. (They have other categories at [...]
Mar 10
The Top 10 Changes In My Business Thinking [link]
The Top 10 Changes In My Business ThinkingRob May reflects back on how the past 5 years have changed his business thinking.
Mar 10
A True "Lifestyle Business"
I started this post on February 19th. That’s right—nearly a month ago. The irony in that is that the very things I was talking about, such as focusing on your life plan and having a lifestyle business, happened to me. My daughter, the light of my life, got a serious respiratory illness and I had [...]
Feb 21
Marketing your Website, A Podcast Series
The fifth podcast in the 5 Steps to Marketing your Website series has been released, and you can listen to it here: Marketing Your Website #5 of 5: Sync Up with Search Engines and Online Tools
Feb 17
Less, Part 3: The E-mail Diet
I had been using Eudora for my e-mail for a very long time, as it was handed out as part of the computing package at my school, Cornell University. And then a disaster happened: while my mailboxes were compressing, I got an end-of-file error, thereby losing about half of the e-mails in my inbox. I [...]
Jan 30
From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days [link]
From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 DaysLearn strategies on growing your blog subscribers that are also relevant to any website’s traffic.
Jan 30
Carnival of the Capitalists
Side note: I didn’t get a chance to enter in this week’s CotC nor have I been writing much this week. I have a sick 2-year-old right now, and the world pretty much stops for her. This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists for January 29, 2008 is up at Bizosphere. This week’s host is cehwiedel [...]
Jan 30
Marketing your Website, A Podcast Series (Part 4)
The fourth podcast in the 5 Steps to Marketing your Website series has been released, and you can listen to it here: Marketing your Website #4 of 5: Create Press and Write Articles If you would like to download the podcast directly, you can control-click (or right-click on a PC) this link and save it [...]
Jan 12
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