Small Business Essentials

Inc.com has a 6-part series that profiles solopreneurs who all made the leap from idea to six-figure incomes in a variety of ways. I’ve pulled out the key points here in hopes of both inspiring my readers and giving you practical advice you can use in your own business!

From lighting choices and meals to postage and credit cards, there are many ways you can make small changes in your business that will help you save on expenses and increase your profits.

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.

Ever look around at the marketing tactics of the businesses in your own neighborhood? Yeah, me too. Here’s the scoop on a recent do/don’t that I found.

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 learned a painful (and expensive) lesson recently, courtesy of Google Checkout. If you are a small business providing services to your clients, please read the rest of this story to decide for yourself whether or not you will risk offering Google Checkout to your clients as a payment method.

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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