Momsational author Erika Jurney just launched a Directory of Businesses Run By Humans, with free home business listings for people just like you. I [heart] Erika.
Improve Your Blog’s Reach With These 20 Essential Web Utilities, I am particularly fond of the FireBug Firefox plugin, which has been extremely helpful in determining what causes [...]

Can you be found in your website? No, really, can your site visitors find you?
I’m sure they can find out about your services, you upcoming events, and how to contact you. And you likely have a bio of who you are and what you’ve done. But do these things express who you are - you [...]

Almost exactly a year ago, I hired Sarah Lewis to redesign eMoms at Home. I really needed a custom theme, and didn’t realize all of the benefits that having a custom theme would provide this site until I hired her. Among other obvious marketing/branding benefits, the not-so obvious benefits were the nearly instant increase in [...]

Last week when I wrote, What I Learned About Communities and Social Media by Hanging Out With the Trolls, I discussed what the members of the StumbleUpon community have been complaining about. I focused on what we as users, fellow community members and marketers can do to work together to make using SU a better [...]

Usually when I do Monday Motivation, I throw down some leverage to hold myself accountable to get through my to-do list. Whenever I put a reward in place for these lists, I seem to let it fall to the wayside. But if I have some consequences in place, I know I’ll get scared by the [...]

I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be in Austin next month for the SXSW Interactive Conference. I’ll also be speaking on the Online Advertising for Newbies Panel with Darren Rowse from ProBlogger as well as a handful of online advertising companies. Our panel is on Sunday morning, by the way. I’ll be there from Friday [...]

A couple of weeks ago, there was a blowup on StumbleUpon. Hardcore SU users who had been using the site for years started lashing out at what they considered to be spam and abuse of the system. You and I would likely say, well, of course we don’t want spam and abuse of the system [...]