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Apparently despite all of its apparent flaws, people still love Digg.
A while back I started a poll asking people to vote on their favorite news submission sites. When I put the poll together I figured that the final results would be relatively close, but that when all was said and done people would select Digg […]

When starting your business, aside from all of the money you’ll spend on the necessary paper work that makes your business “official,” the next biggest expense you’re likely to incur for your business’ software.
If you choose to go for all of the latest and greatest programs out there, you could be looking at spending several […]

My Final Beef With Digg

Okay, I know I’m being pretty obsessive compulsive about Digg, so I promise, this will be the last post about it for a while.  The way I look at it, I like Digg a lot - and by looking at the poll in the sidebar, I’m not the only one - and because I like […]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a pretty seething article about how Digg was beginning to come across as a “high school clique” due to the difficulty for us little guys to make it up to the homepage.  After that article made it up to the homepage, I figured that what I had done […]

Free SEO Tools Worth Checking Out

For those of us who run our businesses online - or just run websites in our spare time - we’re all well aware of how important Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to getting lots of traffic to our sites and, in turn, growing our bottom lines. 
To that end, we spend countless hours trying to make sure that our sites […]

Setting Goals for Your Business

After getting your business up and running, one of the most important things you can to do is to come up with some short terms goals, write them down, and then see them through.  The more and more I work at trying to establish my businesses, the more I realize that setting goals for your business is absolutely […]

Have you ever gotten the feeling that technology is making things more complicated and more time consuming despite claims to the contrary?  Don’t get me wrong, I love technology - I can’t imagine my life without the internet, email, cell phones, etc. - but at the same time, I feel like it has made some aspects […]

Until recently, I was more than happy to simply have Adsense as my primary revenue generating stream for my websites.  I mean, it’s requires very little work to set up, even less work to maintain and you get paid just for people clicking links that show up on your site.
That being said, the more serious […]

Whether you run an entire office or are just the king of your cubicle, there are some pretty easy things that you can do to help make your work space a more environmentally place.
Since it looks like being green is here to stay, it’s probably about time that you jumped on the bandwagon and took advantage of some […]

Submission Sites Other Than The Big Guys

I think it goes without saying that using the big news submission sites like Digg, Reddit and Netscape is a great way to help bring traffic to your site.  That being said, because these sites are so big and so many submissions are sent in, it’s pretty easy to get lost in the crowd.
So, instead […]

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