I am so pleased to bring you this extraordinarily inspirational video made in 2005 at the Stanford Commencement Speech. The 14 minute video is Steve Jobs address to the assembly that day and I strongly urge you to watch it the whole way through.

The whole thing is excellent, but my favorite part was when he said the following:

"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick, but don't lose faith. I am convinced that the
only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Yo… Continue

Question: I would like advice about dealing with mailing lists and making responses automatic-good programs that aid in promoting and handling sorting emails.

---Alexandra Greenawalt from alexandrastylist.com

Answer: Since I am a web developer by profession, when I was faced with this issue, I initially opted to design an automatic mailing program myself. The system I designed was very crude and took me a lot longer than I expected to build. After using it for only 2 months, I de… Continue

BizNik, which is a large social network dedicated to the small business owner and to which I belong, released the results of a survey that I think you will be interested in.

The survey asked entrepreneurs dozens of questions about how they feel about being a small business owner, why they did it, what are their challenges, what are the benefits, etc. For me,… Continue

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization turns out to be more of an art than a science. It is all about marketing and presentation and for most left-brained web developers; this can be a tough challenge. I know it is for me and even though I have been creating web sites since 1997, I am now struggling to raise the search rankings for my own sites.

You see, for web and software developers like me, we look at a web site and think about it from a functional and technical standpoint. If we have a little… Continue

Question: What are the keys to building traffic and developing my presence and brand? I've put the product and site out there, how do I let people know?
-- Antwan McLean-Author/Speaker - "Your Greater Self"

Answer: That is a tough question and I am not going to lie and say I know the answer for sure. I say this because as a struggling self-published author, I am facing the same challenge you are. As self-published authors (especially in today’s economy), promoting our books is kin… Continue