I just got home last week after 12 days in the hospital. My hospital stay solved my medial problem, but left me way behind in my business.

When you are self-employed, you don’t have co-workers to cover for you and you don’t have a regular paycheck that continues while you can’t work.

The stay was a real eye opener as it really showed me how much more I have to do to get my business set up so it will run and generate income without me.

What had I...

When most people decide they want a web site, they go first to a web designer.

Big Mistake
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There are 3 DIFFERENT people you need to work with to have successful web site.

1. Internet Marketer – this person works with you to determine your target audience, develops the plan on what content you need to attract your target audience and what marketing campaigns campaigns you will run to reach them. This is the FIRST person you need.
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LinkedIn Groups (forums) were a great resource for me. I enjoy helping others in these forums and they are a great way to “crowdsource” when I am looking for tool recommendations or marketing ideas.

But lately they have been filling up with two types of spam.

1. LinkedIn Promotion Spam
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Promotion spam is the usual common spam we are used to. A person comes into the group and posts a message looking for business along with...

Here is a recent video I created about how I use mind mapping every week in my business. I also embedded the mind map I created for the video.
Mind Mapping: 5 Ways I Use It In My Business - Garland Coulson, The E-Business Tutor | Garland Coulson, The E-Business Tutor

Did you ever pick up a book on a topic and notice when you start to read it that it is like they are talking about you? And not in a good way…

That was my experience when I picked up “Presentation Zen” by Garr Reynolds.

Presentation Zen is a book about how to make better communications and presentations instead of the horrible point-filled PowerPoint presentations we usually see. The book is quick to point out that PowerPoint is not the problem – the problem...