Today I am sore as sore can be. I spent most of my weekend filling up a dumpster full of trash, junk, and things I haven’t used in over 3 years. By the end of the day, I was downright embarrassed at how much crap we had stuffed away in a garage, barn and basement. [...]

Today I jumped in on a group coaching call with my dear friend and life coach Marla Tabaka. She asked me to speak to her group on social media marketing. As she introduced me, she started listing all of my accomplishments – being on the Today Show, writing for Entrepreneur.com, and working with Epson and [...]

Last spring, I took a big break from blogging. I was having some health issues that forced me to take a hard look at how I was running my business (and my life!). I’ve wholly enjoyed laying low since then, tweeting at a fraction of the amount I used to, logging onto Facebook maybe 3 [...]

Do you like technology? How about free technology to help your business grow? Yeah, I thought so!
AT&T has hired me to help spread the word about their new Small business Tech Makeover contest – a contest so kick butt I’d write about it for free! The contest is to help them relaunch their new AT&T [...]

So. There’s good news and bad news. Mostly good news.
What’s good? Actually, plenty. I’m pleased to announce this week that Kelly McCausey from WAHM 2.0 is now the Sparkplugging General Editor. This means that Kelly is going to be moving her wise words from that blog to this blog, she will be working with the [...]

Business.gov helps small businesses understand their legal requirements, and locate government services supporting the nation’s small business community. It is an official site of the U.S. Government. For resources specific to microbusinesses and home business owners, check out the Business.gov blog on Sparkplugging.
Whether your small business is feeling the economic pinch or not, it’s hard [...]

As more advertisers move into social media, you may have noticed that the blogosphere is all abuzz with posts about “Sponsored Conversations”. When the medium first emerged years ago, a thriving economy cropped up around paid posts, with companies angling to help match bloggers with paid writing opportunities.
But in the fall of 2007, Google came [...]