When my business was still very young, I did just about everything myself. This is pretty typical as in the beginning, you have more time than money to spend. Being a geek, I would often turn my nose up on paying a monthly fee for anything, particularly web based software. These days, SaaS (software [...]

Some weeks ago, when we all posted pictures of our workspaces, I was part of a brief private discussion about workspace clutter. Someone said, if you go paperless, it is easy to reduce the clutter. I agree. However, it seems like not everyone in my life wants to cooperate with me.
Here’s what I mean. I [...]

There are two types of screen capture. Static – think screen shots, and Video – like in screen casts. Some tools can do both. In this post, we’re focusing on those that do video recording and I’ll also do my best to find some options for all your Mac users too.
Jing – works on both [...]

Today I’d like to put you in the spotlight. Ok, ok, I will admit I’m just really curious about you! Many small business owners today are pretty tech or rather Internet savvy. You may not think of yourself as such but you are! I am often amazed by how much my fellow entrepreneurs know about [...]

First of all, IMAP is not a webmail service like Gmail. It is a protocol (or method) for retrieving emails. You can use IMAP method with your current email client. In other words, if you love Outlook, you don’t have to switch to something else to connect to your mailbox using IMAP. Here’s why it [...]

Even if you do not have your very own podcast (I don’t), telephone interviews make great content for your web site. You can further re-purpose it to be added into products or member exclusive downloads. Thankfully recording telephone interviews today is a whole lot easier than it used to be. There’s often little expensive [...]

This is a guest blog post by Joe Pawlikowsk.
When asked what aspect of working at home they enjoy most, many will say the freedom. The freedom to start work at any time. The freedom to work at one’s own individual pace. The freedom to take a walk to the coffee shop and not feel [...]

This is a week I am focused on expanding my fellow bloggers and guest authors’ posts here at Sparkplugging. Today, I read guest author’s reasons for redirecting her affiliate links. Those are the exact reasons I r
edirect mine too. If you don’t know why, read her post. Alice does give a simple way of making [...]

Since I’m not an eBay seller, not for business anyhow, I don’t normally cover or dive into eBay technologies. But my friend and fellow Sparkplugging blogger does. I was reading her post today. She gives you clear step-by-step instructions how to make your eBay listings appear in your Facebook stream.
My only question is, I wonder [...]

There are two types of software. Huge, gangly bloated ones that claim to do everything under the sun – and also suck up your disk space and resources and those that are small, does the job sufficiently well for the few times you need it and only costs you very little in resources and disk [...]