The Year of the Female Entrepreneur: New Survey Data and Infographic
February 15, 2013 – 1:23 pm | No Comment

Happy to learn it’s the Year of the Female Entrepreneur. Go Team!
“The State of Women-Owned Businesses” conducted by
National Association of Business Owned Women
and Web.com surveyed 550 Women Business Owners (WBOs) and found a lot …

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The Big Sauce Survey: A Video Research Project
April 4, 2013 – 6:46 pm | No Comment
The Big Sauce Survey: A Video Research Project

The Big Sauce Survey!
We are recruiting video research participants with menu creation and/or purchasing decision making responsibilities in commercial kitchens (restaurant, catering, hospital, hotel). Participants will be compensated $100 to film a short video in their work kitchens …

Getting In The Picture: How To Sell Your Photographs, & Where
April 14, 2011 – 6:01 am | No Comment
Getting In The Picture: How To Sell Your Photographs, & Where

Picture Perfect

Stock Photo houses have gazillions of images on offer, and they all came from somewhere.  These companies buy pictures every day, paying photographers for images sold.
You may find a niche where you can do …

Podcast Picks: What to Listen While You Tweet
January 26, 2011 – 12:43 pm | One Comment
Podcast Picks: What to Listen While You Tweet

Sound Decisions:
If you’d rather not type in silence, there’s lots of podcasts out there to listen to while you Tweet.
Some suggestions that might give you tips or get you thinking:
The Wall Street Journal‘s weekly …

How To Hire Talent on GigCoin
January 1, 2011 – 1:03 pm | No Comment
How To Hire Talent on GigCoin

How To Begin  
Step 1:  Sign up with Gigcoin here. You can use Facebook connect.  Buy the GigCoin iPhone app [$1.99] if you want to manage gigs on the go
Step 2. Set-up a new gig …

Get Trendy: Tools to Help You Find Trends to Write About
December 1, 2010 – 8:20 pm | One Comment
Get Trendy: Tools to Help You Find Trends to Write About

Heat Seeking  

You may want to make your own noise, but it can’t hurt to know what everyone else is talking about, and where. It can also give you a big SEO boost to write …

Picture This: Finding Free Images for Your Blog Or Website
November 21, 2010 – 4:50 pm | 2 Comments
Picture This: Finding Free Images for Your Blog Or Website

Free As A Bird
The magic of the Internet lets us to steal images faster than we can type, and they do so dress up a post.  But is that really fair to their …

Rank Amateurs: How Beginners Can Learn Search Engine Optimization
November 12, 2010 – 7:52 pm | One Comment
Rank Amateurs: How Beginners Can Learn Search Engine Optimization

It’s all very good to write well about interesting things, but you need to get noticed to prosper on the Internet.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the art and science of getting noticed. Some of …

How To Get On Local Media
November 5, 2010 – 9:00 am | One Comment
How To Get On Local Media

The late Gore Vidal notoriously said: “Never turn down an opportunity to have sex or to appear on television.”  The point is to get in a position to be asked.
WHAT MEDIA DO YOU WANT?
You need …