I came across a couple of articles on blogging that I found helpful and I thought that they may be insightful to any of you that are considering or just starting to blog.

The Bloggin’ Expert - Become the Go-To-Guy or Gal in Your Market By Alice Seba - I get her newsletter and it’s fantastic.

31 Quick Blogging Ideas By Lynette Chandler Read more »

Increasing efficiency, profits and competitiveness through technology - can it be done? Of course. I talk to business owners every single day who could greatly benefit from implementing a new technology in their day-to-day systems that would make a huge difference in their bottom lines.

The problem is - how do you know you need something if you don’t know it exists? Knowledge can be put into three classes: Read more »

Truly amazing. I read Richard Branson’s autobiography in 5 hours a few months ago and this is partly why this headline caught my eye. Mainly however, because of the magnitude of the headline/statement. Read more »

Research from Hitwise earlier this month reported that small businesses rely on search engines now more than ever before - it’s a trend that is only going to increase as SMEs see the lead potential of local search. It’s yet another reason to hone your local keyword research skills.

- Daniel Bower, Project Manager at eMomentum and author of this article

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I get an e-newsletter from a master marketer named Ken McCarthy who developed a system for marketing called the System. He’s famous in the marketing world and one of the first to ever get into internet marketing. My friend James McConnell from Dataship Technologies told me about him originally and has actually seen him. James claims that all the other marketers out there that I follow: Perry Marshall, Dan Kennedy, Derek Gehl, etc. are all students of Ken McCarthy.

Today I received the following in an email from him: Read more »

Hi, Just wanted to give you a glimpse of the start of a concept, something I’ve been working on for quite a while.  Much is based on my three good friends being diagnosed with breast cancer over the past three years and my research into what constitutes healthy living and the challenges we face on PEI in achieving optimum health.  www.squidoo.com/healthyPEI

I also own HealthyPEI.com (under construction) and www.HealthPEI.com, the latter my father used for a blog/rant on the lack of family doctors on PEI which was covered by CBC and the Eastern Graphic. Read more »

I was wondering if anyone else had an embarrassing mistaken email story to share?

A meeting with my new business manager at my bank recently brought back the memory of an humiliating incident which occurred approximately four years ago. Read more »

Indeed it’s true, $4.99 today at the University Avenue Value Village.

I was blown away by the article “We had to hide the Knives” in yesterday’s Globe and Mail online. Click to read the article click here.

With a title like that one, I suppose, would suspect a contentious and potentially shocking article. Never did I expect it to be about young children diagnosed with bi-polar, a psychiatric disorder that can be devastating to the afflicted person and their families. Read more »