I love blogging and have a lot of blogs in my internet marketing arsenal.
Whenever you start a blog there’s a lot of excitement and energy. So much to say and share and do.
Then, as time goes by, even the most passionate of bloggers can run into dry times where they just don’t know what [...]

Google rolled out a new tool for Gmail and Google Chat users today.  The new Google Audio and Video chat option lets me start a real time conversation right from my gmail screen.
I’m loving this and other new bells and whistles that have been offered up as options for Gmail lately, like the canned responses [...]

Ok, help me out here Twitter Moms
Why on earth do you worry about people un-following you on Twitter?
I’m genuinely perplexed by this.
Does it hurt your feelings?
Please don’t let it!  Twitter is a social engine.  Consider someone following or un-following you akin to people at a big party who walk up to chat [...]

I remember what it was like when I first started my home business. I was all about the freebies. Free
advertising, free services, free-free-free! Give it to me for free!
The next best thing to free was Cheap! LOL!
I’ve been there and done that. My first attempt at a money making website was [...]

Rae Hoffman of Sugarrae.com got her start online as a work at home mom just like me and you. Today she serves as an example of where sheer personal determination and internet marketing know-how can take you. She owns two companies, employing in house staff and providing several telecommuting positions. She inspires [...]

One of the things I’m doing with my new Epson Artisan 800 is printing my own postcards and brochures.
I have ordered postcards from Vista Print at a very affordable rate and been pleased with the results in the past and if I need a large run of one kind of postcard, I’d definitely use them [...]

My brand new Epson Artisan 800 arrived yesterday and I could hardly wait to take it out of the box and get it set up. I received this printer as a no strings attached gift from Epson when they sponsored the Sparkplugging team to go to Blog World Expo.
First of all let me [...]

You know you should have an email list.  Some of you do.  Some of you don’t.
My favorite email marketing tool is Aweber.  I’ve used them for years.  I have ten or so lists set up with them.  The main list is my ‘personal mailing list’ that I use to give things away and stay in [...]

I’ve been thinking.
How on earth do any of us ‘forget’ anything these days?
With all of the online reminder tools available to us, it is amazing that we could miss an appointment or space out a friend’s birthday - but we do.
A few of my Sparkplugging Podcast Bootcamp students forgot class this week and two of [...]

I remember how thrilled I was a few years back when I bought my first laptop computer.  After a decade of being chained to a desk, it was amazing to be set free to enjoy writing, designing and web surfing from my cushy love seat or better yet - from the coffee shop in town.
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