June Recipient of Project Jump Start ’09 Chosen

The recipient of June’s Project Jump Start ’09 is … (imaginary drumroll) David! Congratulations, David! You’ll hear from each of us shortly. All of us involved with Project Jump Start wishes you the best of luck, and we hope that your online endeavors and your ideas and dreams turn into something big! Stay tuned. We’ll be jumpstarting someone every month this year –... read more

Advertising on a Microbusiness Budget

No matter how small our tiny little microbusinesses might be, we still need to let people know that we exist. Of course, the standard, tried-and-true way of doing that is by advertising. Since our businesses are of the virtual, online type rather than the brick-and-mortar type, it only makes sense that we should concentrate much of our advertising online. Luckily for us, online advertising is generally... read more

Find Something To Learn

I was going to begin this post with a question, which was going to be: Would you like to be considered an expert in your field? Then I changed my mind. Instead, I’m going to ask you this: Do you even HAVE a “field” in which you might like to be considered an expert? Before you can be an expert at something, you need to know what that something is. So the first step is to determine what... read more