Surviving the holiday with 3 things we tend to forget.

I am writing this article, the week of Thanksgiving.  There is enough to do with the short work week and now I am doing what I tell my clients not to do – procrastinate.  I try to write regularly but as of late I have no ideas – blank, nada, nothing.  Hence the procrastination of posting blog articles.  This got me to thinking about how I will survive the holidays.  Now I am sure you are being inundated with tips for time management and getting through the next month, so I will take a different approach. Three things about the [...]

Common misconceptions for small business owners

Running and owning a small business is no easy feat as I have discovered first-hand. These are a few things that I have picked up along the way. I hope you will find these four misconceptions handy in your quest to start and build your business. Image by aloshbennett via Flickr I don’t need a website – Every business, regardless of size needs a web presence. Even if it is as basic as your company information,  products/services and  contact information. When I am looking for services or products the first place that I go, like many others, is the web. [...]

Should you have friends review your web site?

This very interesting question came up at one of the events I was attending.  I was talking about how I had my site reviewed by a very skilled individual and they offered me advice based on a clients perspective instead of my own. Well that got the ball rolling and now the comments that followed where “my friends all like my site so why should I pay someone to do it”.  And here is my response…. It is great to have business friends and colleagues review and critique your site.  Many times they will find grammar or even (gasp!) spelling [...]