Small Business Essentials

Inc. Online says that 2011 should be the year you finally launch your own business. Need help in getting off the ground? I’ve compiled this list of twenty articles to help you get started.

I came across the article Guidelines for Going Self-Employed on workawesome this morning, and it feels like they are leaving something out. Sure there are disadvantages to being self-employed, but they are not as bad as the article makes it seem. I’ll give you the reality of self-employment from my own perspective.

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 [...]

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 [...]

I dropped the ads from my site. In the end, it had nothing to do with the aesthetics or the influence, but with clarity. I simply felt the ads were distracting me from my true, internal reasons for having this site, and I couldn’t let that happen. The ads were removed, my purpose for this [...]

Death to Procrastination: Use the 4-day win to get your goals movingMartha Beck thinks you can get anything done if you can break it down into a 4-day action plan.

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.

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 [...]

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:

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 [...]