I want to convince you of this:  NOW  is the time to put yourself out there. If YOU don’t do it, someone else will.  I’m not suggesting there isn’t enough business to go around. You believe that, or you wouldn’t be in business. So why are you procrastinating? Why are you holding back? Why aren’t [...]

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 I’m [...]

I asked Aurelia Williams of Real Life Coaching to pop in with some advice for our Sparkplugging Interns.  They have taken on a big project working with me and the other Sparkplugging Authors for ten long weeks – on top of their own busy lives and businesses.  I want to make sure to give them [...]

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 [...]

Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard has come in unassuming moments in casual conversation. Moments when I was relaxed and just open to something new. I can recall many moments like that with my grandfather. My grandfather loved birds. He used to sit for hours watching finches fly in and out of the [...]

I promised more blogs. You get more blogs. This week we are launching two channels I am particularly pleased to present to you. Both of them will cover some of the things that I used to cover on my own blog, so I do believe you will want to read and/or subscribe to them, as [...]

Wow, reading through this post from last fall was a great refresher for me – this is advice I constantly need to give to myself on a regular basis! I think we can all agree that even though we work at home, we can still have “bad days at the office”. Some days we just [...]