And the winner is…Denise Edmondson! Thanks so much to everyone who entered. Denise, enjoy your QuickBooks Pro!
Intuit has given us 5 copies of Quickbooks Pro 2009 to give away to Sparkplugging readers! That’s a $199 value, baby! One copy will be given to a lucky Marketing Eggspert reader, and four others will be [...]

Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you were inspired! Sparking [...]

I saw a review of Real Leaders Don’t Do PowerPoint: How to Sell Yourself and Your Ideas by Christopher Witt in Fortune Small Business Magazine, and as they say, I had to have it. I’ve been slowly (very slowly) trying to get into public speaking, so I thought this was the book for me.
It was [...]

Look, didn’t you hear? Cold calling is so 1995. Stop calling me.

I don’t get a lot of phone calls. When I do, I’m excited that they might be new clients for Egg. Suffice it to say, when I received two calls from recruiters this week, I was less than thrilled. After all, I work from [...]

In an effort to bring you more small business resources, I asked Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle.com, a few questions.

How does Yodle work?
Yodle advertises our clients across a network of search engines, directories, and other sites in order to generate qualified leads for that client. We are a “full-service” company in the sense that [...]

Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you were inspired! Sparking [...]

The purpose of this blog is to educate you, Dear Reader, on how to do your own marketing. But should you come up against a brick wall and need the aid of an intelligent, flexible and smart marketing consultation firm, allow me to offer my company’s services.

Egg’s been helping businesses for nearly three years expand [...]

As I craned my foot up and over my hip in a very uncomfortable variation of downward dog, my yoga instructor said, “Strength first, flexibility later. If you don’t have the strength you can’t have the flexibility.”
Huh.
That phrase has stuck with me all day. And I’m not thinking about yoga. I’m thinking about my business. [...]

You probably know this, but women are social creatures. We like to communicate, share and refer.  The 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners, proves that we’re doing that via social media. If your target audience is women, you’d do well to read the report.

The study said that women [...]

I love going to conferences. I always come back with so much fodder for my blog(s). I attended the Florida Conference for Women yesterday, and what an amazing bunch of speakers! Over the next few weeks I’ll share the knowledge I gleaned.
Tory Johnson of Women for Hire talked a bit about self promotion, so let’s [...]