I am extremely excited to put up this contest today - this isn’t just a run-of-the-mill printer giveaway. This is a giveaway so de-lish and so perfect for our readers that I couldn’t wait to post it for you!

Do you want to be able to print your own business cards, letterhead, brochures and postcards from [...]

‘Poverty’ is something I normally associate with third world countries. But these last few weeks of economic turmoil have made me realize just how fragile our situation here in the United States can be. Actually, it’s everywhere. I have, and encourage everyone, to loan through Kiva to help people facing poverty far worse than what [...]

Last week, I was swapping emails back and forth with my friend Laura Fitton, otherwise known as @Pistachio on Twitter and the owner of Pistachio Consulting. Laura’s business is a lot like 78% of all US businesses - she is a solo business owner with no employees.
She sent me an amusing little note about not [...]

When I was at BlogWorld, I moderated a really excellent panel with Dave Taylor of AskDaveTaylor.com along with Steve Hall of AdRants,  David Peralty of Xfep and Lynn Truong of Wise Bread on how to sell advertising directly to advertisers on your blog. At one point I had a somewhat embarrassing ‘ah-ha’ moment in which [...]

I’ve been having a lot of people ask me lately what it is like to hire and manage a team of 18, 13, 15 writers. To put it bluntly, it is a Big. Challenge. Not only does every blog require a unique strategy to build, but each blogger takes a unique strategy to motivate & [...]

Last weekend, I watched the news on this nebulous ‘bailout package’ nearly 24/7. It seemed so big, so important, yet I just didn’t get it. HOW could pumping this amount of money into Wall Street have ANYTHING to do with me, or you, our Sparkplugging readers.
I started to understand when one of the Representatives being [...]

In case you missed it, Technorati released their State of the Blogosphere report last week. It’s always a highly anticipated report that truly carries a lot of weight in our industry. Technorati’s statistics are the most frequently cited in reference to the blogosphere. Marketers, agencies, business owners and the mainstream media rely on these statistics [...]