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 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 not [...]

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 five [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I have written about the importance of going outside of your comfort zone as an entrepreneur as long as this blog has been around. I could wax poetic about how or why we need to get uncomfortable for an entire post, but this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. just sums it up so much [...]