Archive for the 'Working from home' Category

04 Jun

Wordless Wednesday: Wine of the Country

03 Jun

Bizzuka Platform Now With Blogs

As I mentioned here back in February this year, my friend and colleague Paul Chaney, a leading blogger and great encourager of others in the business of blogging and the blogging of business, is Internet Marketing Director at Bizzuka, based in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Bizzuka provides custom Web design and content management services and intranet development services […]

28 May

Wordless Wednesday: Tranquillity

“Tranquillity”: The Anchorage Islands (where we live), Tweed Heads, Australia - Copyright 2008 Des Walsh

28 May

Tweetathon Up and Running

My partner and co-blogger on this site, Suzie Cheel, with our good friend Glenda Watson Hyatt, the “Left Thumb Blogger”, have been working feverishly to get their Tweetathon going. It launched for us tonight at 7pm Australian eastern time and will keep “re-launching” around the globe in the coming hours.
The aim of the Tweetathon is […]

28 May

Chocolates and Doing Business With Style

There’s saying thank you with courtesy. And there’s saying thank you with courtesy and style. Leah Maclean is a virtuoso in the latter category.
Some time ago, Nancy Batenburg, a good friend of ours, asked our advice on a quote she had received for a new website with blog, for her business (link is to existing […]

26 May

Does Your Blog Have a Goal?

Liz Strauss is running a great series : The Ultimate Guide to a Wildly Sticky, Successful and Outstanding Blog.
Today’s post in her series is about Finding A Direction — Goals, Titles, and Taglines. Liz asks Surely You Have a Goal?
A blogging goal gives a blog a heart and a direction. It’s a powerful exercise in […]

23 May

21 Days to a More Profitable Blog

Barbara Ling has a fantastic 21 day step by step training going on over at Barbara Ling.
Today is on Day 4, but I would recommend going back and starting at Day one and learn to internalize where online money comes from.
Barbara is a very successful online marketer and her blog is full of juicy tips […]

14 May

Domains and Sites for Sale

Picture by JMGRIFFIN via stock.xghang
We announced a couple of days ago that part of the plan to help Suzie get to Vancouver in June was to sell some web domains.
In the process we found that a couple of actual sites we had set up had, without any care or tendering, much less blogging, on our […]

13 May

5 Great Time Savers

Surfing around the net I have been collecting some tools and tips that are saving me time. I decided to share them with you.
1. Easy Hyperlinks from Mark Wilson is a great tool for those wanting to put links into forums (BB code) or your own posts and if you don’t know html.

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Want to […]

12 May

Suzie’s Big Hairy Audacious Goal Generates Good Deals

As far as I can work out, the term scrawled on a million whiteboards by corporate trainers, Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs), was coined - or at least first publicized - by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras in their now modern business classic, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.
Some readers will already […]