Did you make any resolutions about getting things done this year? How are those going? Maybe you wanted to start focusing more on a certain area of your online business, or cut down on distractions like mindlessly surfing the Internet. If you have slipped a little in your resolve, don't be discouraged. After all, the key to success is not to never fail, but to keep trying. So if you have resumed sleeping in in the mornings or are back to fritteri ...continue

Two weeks ago, we talked about choosing a life coach, and some reasons why you would want to do so. So what if you think you would make a good coach yourself? Again, if you are put off by the term "life coach", you don't have to call it that. Think of it as just plain coaching, or mentoring, or simply teaching in whatever field you happen to know something about. The point is that chances are you have something to give to the world, and there is ...continue

There are lots of great themes out there, many of them free. And while these themes might be perfectly fine for someone setting up a personal blog and nothing more, if you are planning on building a business online, you probably want to consider investing a little more in your website up front. By purchasing a premiere theme, you still will be spending far less than you would on a web designer, and what you'll get will be more suited to making mo ...continue

Every Wednesday at 12 PM Eastern time, Joel Comm's latest installment of The Joel Comm Show airs on Webmaster Radio. Last week's guest was Mark Widawer, talking about the ins and outs of split testing. Here are some of the details. (To hear the whole broadcast, click here.) Split testing can be defined as the organized process of having two different versions of something, for example your landing page, and then sending similar amounts of traf ...continue

There's a lot to be said in this day and age of rabid consumerism for decluttering. There are websites and books galore that will help you declutter your possessions so that you can have a neater, simpler existence and basically get more room and space to breathe in. If you've never tried decluttering your physical possessions, you should give it a try. It can give you more energy, confidence, and free you up to pursue the things you really care ...continue

Recently we've talked on this site about the beautiful thing that is open source software. While there are definitely pros and cons to using open source software as opposed to paid alternatives, if you are just starting out and have a minuscule or non-existent budget, open source software can really be a life-saver. And for some people, it's just a lifestyle choice. Whatever your motivations for seeking out open source alternatives, in the end it ...continue

Christopher Knight is the CEO & publisher of the wildly popular EzineArticles.com, a community of over 140,000 expert authors in 600+ niche markets who have written over 1 million quality articles that receive traffic from tens of millions of monthly visitors to the site. We caught up with Christopher via email: What was the last job you had working for someone else? It's a misnomer that working “for yourself” is like not having a bos ...continue

So you’ve set up your Cash Machine. Your idea is modeled after a similar business, and you’re organized and ready to go. Now what? People come to my workshops with great ideas, but they’ve usually hit a roadblock when it comes to actually making money. The problem is they don’t know where to find customers and, when they do, they don’t know how to ask for the sale. Does this sound familiar? So what do you do? Marketing is a sc ...continue

By Timothy Ferriss The chances are good that if you haven't read this book, you've at least heard of it. The life blueprint it provides is legendary: earn six figures a year by working less (way less) instead of more, and spend the rest of your time traveling and doing the things you really want to do. Sound like a pipe dream? Perhaps, but here's the thing: people have done it, meaning that it's possible. And if something is possible, then it ...continue

In 2010, the changing dynamics in buyer behavior will force many organizations to engage and influence their current and prospective customers very differently in the “new norm” of 2010 and beyond. Marketing will have to focus much more proactively on one-on-one relationships (as advocated by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers of Peppers & Rogers Group in the early 90s – talk about being ahead of your time!), whether on the corporate website/blo ...continue