My Never-Ending Quest to Learn More in Less Time

Learn More In Less time.

(And How I Put ChatGPT to Work) I’ve always been curious about things. Sometimes probably a little too curious. I can start out researching something related to a website project and somehow end up reading about an event from 200 years ago. I’m not exactly sure how I got there, but apparently I needed to…

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Why I Finally Refreshed My Own Website

Refreshed My Website

(And Why Yours Might Need It Too) I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been building and fixing websites for nearly 30 years, and my own site had gotten stale. Not broken. Not embarrassing. Just… stale. The kind of stale you don’t notice because you walk past it every day. It’s the old cobbler’s kids problem.…

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Time Tracking Shouldn’t Take Time

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I can’t tell you the number of billable hours I’ve probably lost. WHY? Because time tracking has always been frustrating.  I’ve tried every service and method imaginable. Note cards, software, you name it. Nothing connected. I didn’t like the fact it took so many clicks to even start a timer. Or I’d start one and…

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Stop Guessing What Content to Create: Let Google Tell You

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One of the biggest problems business owners have with content marketing is simple: They run out of ideas. After a while, every blog topic starts sounding the same. Every social media post feels forced. Business owners sit there staring at the screen wondering what they should write next, what Google wants, or why their competitors…

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My 90 Day Income Challenge: Can I Make an Extra $200 a Day?

90 day income challenge

The $200 a Day Challenge (My 90-Day Experiment) I didn’t get my blog post written this week, and honestly, that might have been a good thing. Instead of writing about marketing, websites, or plugins, I found myself thinking about something a little more personal and a little more practical. I decided to give myself a…

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5 Things I Check When I Actually Work ON My Business

working on your business

The other day I wrote about something most business owners eventually run into. We spend a lot of time working in our business, but very little time working on it. Working in the business is the daily grind. It’s answering emails, finishing projects, handling customer requests, fixing problems, and trying to keep everything moving forward.…

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When Was the Last Time You Worked ON Your Business?

when was the last time you worked on your business

We get so busy working in our business that we often forget or don’t make time to work on it. Recently I forced myself, in a way, to make drastic changes.  Over the past 6 months or so I’ve been documenting what and where I’ve been spending. You always tell yourself you have a handle…

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Let’s Stop Pretending the New Year Magically Fixes Anything

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Every January, the same advice shows up everywhere you look. Fresh start. New beginning. New year, new you. And every year, by the time February rolls around, most people are right back where they started. Same website. Same message. Same frustration about why things still aren’t converting the way they hoped. I don’t think the…

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