I am having a great time learning to “paint” digitally. Above is my first attempt at digital painting, called “All is OK.” Digital painting is completely different than using a traditional paintbrush and paint, but it allows for some great new benefits such as: trying something and then quickly deleting it if I don’t like …

Summer is a great time to enjoy the beautiful weather and visit with family and friends. However, once Labor Day hits and the crowds recede, don’t let that relaxed summer mood bleed into your productive business time. Autumn provides many business owners some much-needed downtime to start working on projects that were put on hold …

Derived from the energetic laws of the universe is an understanding that Energy In = Energy Out. Applied to business, you can think of clients as energy coming INTO your business. In turn, that makes marketing, advertising, networking and SEO as a vehicle for energy to move out. The reason I am writing this is …

There are thousands of social media websites. Every time you turn around you will see a new site, complete with its own icon and sharing widget. This can be overwhelming for businesses who are new to the social media game. But it doesn’t have to be. In their post Social Media Platform Selection: Keep your eye …

You can spend all the money in the world on advertising and marketing. However, if you don’t put the energy into seeing your own business as you want others to see it, how can they? Do these thoughts sound familiar: “I don’t have time to post on Facebook, let alone create a blog post.” “My …

How many times have you received a new solicitation asking you to: join a group? buy a discounted advertisement? join a network and create a profile on a new site? invest in smarter search engine optimization (SEO) for your website, etc? And how many times have you been asked to ACT NOW to receive an …

Want to get 5 million people to come to your website? Per cartoonist and web designer, Matthew Inman, here’s how:    

An entrepreneur is someone who starts, organizes or manages a business and takes on financial risk to invest in their idea. However, an entrepreneur is so much more. An entrepreneur: can work from 8 to 5 on weekdays, but often works weekends, nights, and while on vacation. takes on the responsibility of getting everything organized …

Maintaining a work life balance is a true art. Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management.  Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.  – Betsy Jacobson Maintaing the work-life balance means having the will power and determination to work during work hours and stop when work hours are over. It means …

The web has been seeing another spike in hacking attempts on websites lately. It’s important for you to do your part to help keep your site safe. Hacks can be a real pain to remove, and unaddressed malicious content on your site may even result in your site being removed from search engine results. You …