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 [...]

A while back I read a blog post (which I couldn’t find today) where the author asked if your business was about just making a living or was it about making a difference.
It’s an interesting thing to contemplate. Am I just running my business to make money or am I running my business to make [...]

Does what you perceive equal the reality? You and I are so bombarded with ads selling hair products, shoes, clothing, medicine, etc but do you find the perceived value of the product is equal to the reality or more than it or less than how you perceive it?
This article began from a section of Michael [...]

I’ve talked with a lot of people in the last few days, and several of them suggested that I conduct a SparkplugU survey to expand our course offerings based on your input.
I thought this was a fab idea.
So I’d like to request that you take a few minutes to fill out our very [...]

I usually like to tie up my posts in a nice, neat little bow, and I wasn’t able to do that on this one. I’ve been thinking about this for months, wondering how to articulate both my uncertainty about the sustainability of our industry, as well as my belief that work with a purpose will [...]

After a whirlwind 4 weeks, we are finally done rolling out all of the new Sparkplugging channels. I am SO proud of everything we have done, and I’m super excited to move forward and start tackling new projects that don’t include setting up WordPress blogs.
But that’s just it, I have so many ideas [...]

May 2008 Update :: This list has gone so unpredictably viral I can’t keep up with all of the additions (Yay Moms!). So please feel free to leave a comment with your Twitter ID/URL if you are a mom on Twitter. And please scroll (and scroll… and scroll…) through the comments below to meet all [...]