Small Business Essentials

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 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 [...]

We are now into the third January of my business, which will mark the third year in a row that I did not sit down to establish business goals. I will tell you exactly why: I am a big giant chicken. (Cluck! Cluck!) In my perfectionist brain, I just tell myself that if I don’t [...]

Everyone has those brain fart moments, when you need to complete something but your mind is just drawing a blank. To help you through those times, I’ve come up with this list of ideas for getting unstuck:

It seems like everyone I’ve talked to lately is in the middle of some kind of web development project delay. (We even had an entire thread about it in the StartupNation Community.) I started asking around and thinking about the delays I’ve had or heard about in my own webdev business to figure out why [...]

As we near the end of 2007, it’s time to start making those goals for yourself and your business for 2008. After studying all the entrepreneurs I have come into contact with over the past year, both at StartupNation and in my marketing/webdev business, I have come to realize that success as a solopreneur is [...]

I have a chronic illness, but the specifics of what it is are not important at this point. What is important is the choice I have to make every morning: I can get up and think "woe is me", let the pain prevent me from doing anything, and crawl back into bed for the rest [...]