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 [...]

Although our Celebrity Business blog has been around for a while, we have added a new superstar author to it. You probably know Jessica Smith from Twitter (@JessicaKnows), the WalMart 11Moms campaign (site launching early September), as the Chief Mom Officer at WishPot, or simply from her rapidly growing blog JessicaKnows.
Jessica has been wanting to [...]

I ask this question of clients all the time - what’s the most pressing problem (or issue) in your business right now?
Most of the time the answers I get have to do with traffic to my website, lead development or revenue generation.
Sure, we all need more leads and we could all make more money. But [...]

Why?
Why are you in business? Why do you offer your customers what you offer? Why do you structure your business the way you do? Why are you successful? Why are you not successful?
I could go on and on with the question. The point is to always be asking yourself why. Why comes before how and [...]

After watching the American Idol finale last week, I was convinced (like many millions of others) that David Archuleta would win. But when he didn’t, I was completely confused. I found myself going back through the last performances and trying to figure out why. I honestly don’t even regularly watch the show, but my curiosity [...]

An issue that seems to resurface frequently among freelancers, consultants, and the self-employed is the whole “getting paid what you’re worth” question. A journalist actually called me up the other day and asked my opinion on it as well. She was seeing a trend of moms being exploited for work at below-standard rates, and I [...]

I am taking the morning off today & taking my kids who are on spring break to the zoo. I’m finding more and more lately that leaving my home office to either get out of the house (or even go clean other parts of the house!) has been pretty critical to my ability to think [...]