I used to struggle. A lot.
I spent more than a decade suffocating under a burden of debt.  I wore the letters off of my keyboard building my online business – and finally knew the pleasure of being debt free and being able to pay bills on time.  I know what it’s like to build something [...]

Most Sparkplugging readers are…well, small.  Call it consultant, micro-business, or whatever you like.  Freelancers are small businesses that can benefit from a very small amount of business.  Today I’d like to show you how to snag some highly targeted web traffic that will get you some great business – and it’s something you should be [...]

It seems like everybody and their guru is talking about how hot membership sites are these days.  I’m quite proud of the fact that I’m celebrating a fifth anniversary for one of my memberhips sites this month.  It makes me feel proud and somewhat ahead of the pack in some ways
The membership site [...]

Forty-one must have this, 112 can’t live without that, 35 other things you haven’t seen yet. I read them all.  Here are three that I found in the Sparkplugging archives that are  really fantastic and worth a second look.
Grow your business with these 23 solid tips from Samir Balwani. Samir covers everything from the obvious–start [...]

This is a guest post from one of my bestest online peeps, Nicole Dean.
Kelly McCausey, your fearless editor, asked me to write about transitions in business. You see, I’ve had a few major changes over the years that she and I have known each other. My husband was laid off from work a few times, [...]

This is a guest blog post from Jimmy D. Brown.  He continues our guest blogger theme of ‘business transitions’.
My wife and I have been married since 1994.  During the years since our wedding, we have stayed in a variety of hotels ranging from a “glorified closet” to a resort suite, everything from a 1-star [...]

This is a Guest Post from Alice Seba, the Internet Marketing Sweetie.  Alice is a good friend I have had the pleasure of partnering with on several projects that brought welcome change into my life and business.
I don’t know about you, but when I started this online gig (which soon became a lifelong journey), I [...]