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November 2010

Set up your Website

If your a small business owner and you have not got around to setting up a website – now is the time.  It has never been easier to get your business online – and the returns are simply amazing. But . . . Your website can be a marketing paradise . .. or a marketing sinkhole!! So do things right.  Don’t spend time and money that you don’t have too. I fully recommend using WordPress to set up your website.  I just finished teaching a class on how to do it and in a couple hours they had up a professional and good looking […]

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Get involved in the online conversation through forums

Online Forums – Get Involved – Get Active One of the greatest sourced of information are online forums. There are many on the net. Almost every guru on the net has his or her own forum. There are some big forums geared at web development, seo, and just about anything else to deal with running a business on the net. I am active in quite a few of these forums.  Alice Seba’s Internet Based Mom’s forum is one of the main ones that I check in regularly, as I am a moderator on that forum. I also regularly check in on the Warrior forum, TurboCommunity, Internet Buzz, Adsense and Rich Jerk among others.

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Stop Whining!!

Here is an excellent post from Seth Godin – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/10/two-problems-with-whining.html Two problems with whining The first is that it doesn’t work. You can whine about the government or your friends or your job or your family, but nothing will happen except that you’ll waste time. Worse… far worse… is that whining is a reverse placebo. When you get good at whining, you start noticing evidence that makes your whining more true. So you amplify that and immerse yourself in it, thus creating more evidence, more stuff worth complaining about. If you spent the same time prattling on about how optimistic you are, you’d have

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