Small Business Essentials

Economic Corrections and Relaunches

I keep hearing this term lately, "Economic Correction", and all I can think is that it doesn’t matter how much honey you spread on liver – it’s still going to taste pretty bad. All jokes aside, a true CEO would celebrate a recession as a time of opportunity, not as a time to roll over [...]

I’m Getting Closer!

For most people, purchasing a template for your site saves money through reducing programming and graphic arts costs.
For a developer, it may save money if you don’t do the artwork yourself, as you save yourself from having to pay an artist, but it ends up costly in terms of changing an already-designed theme around.
When I [...]

I’m Working On It!

I’m sorry if you show up on the site in the next few days and things seem out of sorts or they keep moving around. I’m building a new theme for the site and it might take a few days before regular activity is resumed. Stay tuned!
P.S. The ads are not real—they just came with [...]

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 [...]

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

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 to your [...]

Marketing your Website, A Podcast Series (Part 3)

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 and save [...]

Is Money the Root of All Evil? (Writing with Purpose)

I have been writing in this blog for just about a year, and I have been through a number of changes:

The blog was once on a subdomain of my company, and now has its own domain.
I started at infrequent posts, then went to 2-3 posts a week, and now am at 5-6 posts per week.
The [...]

Can Anyone Comment?

I have been having a lot of problems commenting on other blogs lately, which is making it a little hard to participate on some of my favorite sites. Today, the problem occurred to me when I couldn’t submit something in my own WordPress admin. There seems to be some problem between Firefox and the WordPress [...]

Marketing your Website, A Podcast Series (Part 2)

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 hard drive.
Stay [...]

New Things: Links Feed, WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner (and some geek code)

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 [...]

Marketing your Website, A Podcast Series

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 on [...]