Almost two months ago I wanted to start profiling (in a good way, lol) other freelancers/ self-employed/small business owners like myself on my blog, ArtiatesiaDeal.com. I reach out to a few people and there was some interest in the beginning but then it died off. It wasn't until I posted about it on here the MYBBWO Network site that not only did the original five spots were filled but I had to start a waiting…

When I went to print something out yesterday, I got alerted that my ink cartridges were running low. So I check to see if I had any and found only one black cartridge left. It actually been over a year (maybe two) since I last purchase ink for my HP all-in-one printer. I love my printer and the best investment I made, besides buying it was switching over from regular size ink cartridges to the XL ones. Yes, the XL ones are more expensive but it last way longer (even longer if you rarely…

There is no secret about how much I love WordPress. It has made my life so much easier since I have embraced it but it wasn’t always that way. I look at web design as two parts – the designing of the graphics and then the back-end with the HTML and CSS. I have no problem doing both but sometimes the coding part can really kick your butt. I hate when I am working on some html edits and something goes wrong. Then it take me hours to figure out what’s wrong and it turns I added an extra…

Early this week I have the please of having fellow MyBBWO member Tamara Garrison-Thomas be a guest blogger on my blog.

Even though it goes unnoticed, cold calling is probably the most effective way to grow your business. Believe it or not, cold calling is a part of business development. Steve Richard shares in his blog, ‘Outbound Prospecting The Cold Calling Tactic That Works’ that 71% of sales reps…

If you are an entrepreneur in the service industry or have physical products to sell, there are two things you must have in your business toolbox. Although, I have yet figured out how to incorporate one of them into my business, I do own both. So what am I talking about? The first thing is a smartphone. Not sure if you have seen the latest Blackberry commercial taking jabs at iphone users saying that they don’t need a toy but a tool help run their business. On a side note, I think Blackberry…

I am really excited to start rolling out my new ideas for the blog. First up: a blog carnival. What’s a blog carnival? According the Blogcarnival.com –

A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a…