I love finding new tools that make my business easier to manage and today I found a real winner.  I have to thank our TechAuthor, Lynette Chandler for this great find - she listed it in her recent post of practical Wordpress plugins for small business owners.
The plugin that grabbed my attention is WP-Invoice.
In my [...]

This week’s Spark an Idea Thursday is all about Finishing What We Start.
We entrepreneurs are great Starters but we’re often poor Finishers. It takes a lot of determination to take a project through to completion. The Sparkplugging Author’s have some great advice for us.

Susan says that sometimes we’re just not motivated.
Leslie says she’s [...]

While Mashable was able to play with Google Wave and put out a fantastic review, there is still a lot left to be developed in the interface, and a few features that many have clamored for are yet to be implemented. So, it’s a bit premature to say exactly how small business will benefit [...]

Sparkplugging has five fresh off the presses copies of QuickBooks Pro 2009 to give away to five readers this weekend thanks to the masterful networking activities of our organizing guru, Brandie Kajino and her friends at Intuit.  
We’ve spread the fun around to five of our network blogs:

The Home Office Organizer
SOHO Tools & Tech
eBay & eCommerce
The [...]

Just like their counterparts in the corporate world, many people who work from home eat lunch at their desk.
I’ve done it. Wendy’s done it. And it’s likely, if you have a home office, that you’ve done it as well.
Yeah, I know how the lyrics to this song goes: “I’m just eating so I can get [...]

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Ever since I gave up my Monday Motivation tradition, I have [...]

I’ve never hidden the fact that I really don’t like my Monday Motivation tradition. I like going through piles of email even less. But I’ve gotten to the point that I dislike it so much that I’ve decided there has got to be a better way to kick off my week.
But the real [...]