Maybe getting “laid off” is not a tragedy. Maybe it's a signal. A signal that now is finally the time to do something about that “great idea” you have. A signal to go ahead and do what you love and find out if the money really will follow. A signal to dare to attempt something great.

Creativity doesn’t usually occur while you’re screen-sucking.

Try this as a stress-reduction technique: only one thing on your to-do list each day.

Try this as a stress-reduction technique: only one thing on your to-do list each day.

I can’t help but notice how some have seized on the anniversary of the events of 9/11/2001 to further their own agendas, stir up anger and fear, and — to my dismay — even to sell products.

I can’t help but notice how some have seized on the anniversary of the events of 9/11/2001 to further their own agendas, stir up anger and fear, and — to my dismay — even to sell products.

Did you ever have a “great idea” for a business or a project, and then “think it to death”? In other words, turn it over in your mind until the shine was off it, and you were no longer excited about it?

The United States Post Office is not having its greatest year.

Sometimes our great marketing ideas backfire.

The phrase “get rich quick” seems to be used as if it is synonymous with “scam” or “rip off”.

Does giving stuff away for free — in the clear, with no email required — work as a way to get new readers, more traffic, and subscribers?

There are people who think you and I should have the right to own a Bazooka, or a machine gun, or a tank.

What's the #1 business fantasy?

Friends are often just the people we need in our lives to give us good advice – especially when it's advice we don't want to hear. On the other hand, there are times when we shouldn't listen to our friends. Here are 3 times you should disregard a friend's advice:

Some of the most successful people I know don't have an e-mail account. I don't mean that they don't have a public e-mail account-I mean they don't have one at all.

In the past, I have scoffed at the idea of affirmations. You know, “I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me.” That sort of thing.