I love finding new tools that make my business easier to manage and today I found a real winner.  I have to thank our TechAuthor, Lynette Chandler for this great find – she listed it in her recent post of practical WordPress plugins for small business owners. The plugin that grabbed my attention is WP-Invoice. [...]

This is a guest blog post by Alice Seba, the Internet Marketing Sweetie. We work writing great content for our blogs and to be honest, it can suck if we don’t get the traffic we deserve (or that we need to earn a decent income!). It feels like a vicious cycle…you can’t get the traffic [...]

This week I’m recommending a few of my favorite Tweets – if you like these Tweets, you’ll probably love following the Tweeters   They all made me smile today. @JessicaGottlieb -  Makes me wonder if I owe anybody any money and would a #followfriday settle the debt? LOL! @iszuddin – Great attitude! @andrewwee – Love [...]

Chatting with my sister today she told me about a cousin that has been out of work for the last six months.  In that time she has lost her house and moved into a small rental.  Right now she is one month late on her rent.  In a short amount of time she went from [...]

This week’s Spark an Idea Thursday is all about Email. Email is everything in my business.  I’m sure you feel the same way… ok, maybe not. I’ve actually heard of a few people who refuse to use email – though I can’t imagine how that works. It’s a quiet week around the Sparkplugging network but [...]

I did an interview with, James, one of the founders of MenWithPens.ca. This organization epitomizes the lifestyle that Sparkplugging.com is focused on. Their four employees, one of whom is a woman despite the name, operate from four different locations in two different countries thousands of miles apart. We talked about what they do, remote work [...]

If you have a lot of natural ability – skill, personality and presence that other people have recognized in you since you were a child – you have grown up believing that you have what it takes to be successful. But what action have you taken lately that would make use of all that awesome [...]