Does Your Idea Have Potential? 9 Ways to Start Researching Your Niche
use these 9 free tools to gauge whether or not your niche has potential. This will get you started doing research on your business or website idea.
use these 9 free tools to gauge whether or not your niche has potential. This will get you started doing research on your business or website idea.
WordPress allows you, as an artist, to create and manage a website for your art in ways you may not have considered before. And WordPress makes managing that site easy for you, even if you aren’t a professional web designer. Here are some options.
Are you thinking about starting a home business, but you have no money to “invest” in your business? Been there, done that. Many bits of wisdom I have on business I take for granted, from my years of starting a home business (or dorm business :)) more than 30 years ago right on through my …
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2018 was a weird year for me. I started the year with a word to express its theme: Mastery. At the start of 2019, looking back, I think a better theme would have been Mindset, as the mastery I achieved was over my own mind. Among the things I’ve worked on is me. In particular, …
I also love to talk about passion projects — doing what you really love because you’ll easily sell/market/talk about what you are passionate about. I have an easier time talking to someone about what I do if I’m passionate about it. There’s something about Passionless Projects too — boring stuff that makes you a fairly …
In Praise of Passionless Projects that Give You a Boost { Keep Reading }
What makes a mobile-friendly website? Why should you have a mobile-friendly website? What is the difference between that and a responsive website?
If I had a dime for how many times I’ve heard, “I wish I could afford to have a home business”, I would be a rich woman. Usually, it’s someone who has an idea in their head — a dream. But the dream is going to cost money. The programs she needs are going to …
“So I did a thing,” I tell my husband, Martin, over Cubanos on date night, “I bought this program called LongTail Pro about a month ago, and I can’t believe the difference.” My husband, a skilled tradesman, doesn’t understand much about things like keyword research and marking your online side hustle. But as I was …
How LongTail Pro Cuts my Marketing Time by Half { Keep Reading }
I never understand why so many of my blogger and side hustler friends recommend Bluehost. back when I used them, I had nothing but problems with Bluehost, and I’ve heard others have to. I guess they must just pay better commissions than other web hosting and domain name companies. As for me, I love Namecheap! …
Forget Bluehost: Why I love Namecheap for Web Hosting and Domain Names { Keep Reading }
When starting out as a solopreneur (that is, an entrepreneur that works alone), it may tempt you to do it all yourself. And I get this impulse. I’m the same way. I’m a DIY sort of girl boss. Hubby says it’s more about being a control freak. We’ll agree to disagree there. Solopreneurs Can Rely on …
Solopreneur Doesn’t Mean Always Flying Solo { Keep Reading }
In WordPress, your theme controls how your website looks and acts. If you need to customize your theme, a Child Theme may be your best option. Here’s why.