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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The third podcast in the 5 Steps to Marketing your Website series has been released, and you can listen to it here: Marketing your Website #3 of 5: Build Your Word of Mouth and Viral Marketing If you would like to download the podcast directly, you can control-click (or right-click on a PC) this link [...]

The second podcast in the 5 Steps to Marketing your Website series has been released, and you can listen to it here: Marketing your Website #2 of 5: Participate and Network If you would like to download the podcast directly, you can control-click (or right-click on a PC) this link and save it to your [...]

How not to do a FREE calculation, Trent Reznor edition Giving away something for free is a hot marketing topic right now, but there’s definitely right and wrong ways to do it.

What does the “Media Business Model” mean? The ways in which you can make money off free content.

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 [...]

Today’s post is a montage dedicated to SPAM: what it is, why it’s bad, how to prevent it, how to not send it, and what happens when people just can’t take it anymore. Enjoy!

I owe a lot to Amazon.com; back in the mid-90s, when I had just entered college in the middle of nowhere, Amazon fueled my entrepreneurial spirit by providing me with all the content I needed to learn my craft. (These were the days before the entire documentation for languages like PHP and CSS could be [...]

Nikole Gipps of NHG Consulting launched a new blog today, "Web Technology for Entrepreneurs", at StartupNation.com.