Today is the last day of school for my kids, so when they arrive home, I’ll be handed their report cards.
Have you gotten your report card(s), yet?
What? You didn’t know there were report cards for you? Oh yeah…and here they are:

Website.Grader.com – Free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website
PressRelease.Grader.com – Evaluates your press release and provides a marketing effectiveness score
Twitter.Grader.com – Evaluates your Twitter profile
Facebook.Grader.com – Evaluates Facebook personal and business pages
Gobbledygook.Grader.com – Check your content for use of gobbledygook words
Personality.Grader.com – Evaluates your …

Gravatars are those groovy little pictures next to comments on blogs and forums, and they’re a really good idea to use to help you build recognition for yourself and/or your brand online.

To set up your own Gravatar, follow these easy steps:

You’re putting together a new website and everything is in place except for one thing: your picture. You begin to question whether you actually have to have a picture at all, particularly since you never seem to get around to getting the appointment made at the photography studio. You go back and forth with yourself about whether you need a professional portrait made, or whether a snap with the digital camera would do. Meanwhile, as the battle rages on in your mind, you still don’t have a picture on your …

Marketing is a scary word for a lot of folks. Just the mere mention of the word send chills down some spines and conjures up the sleaziest of scare tactics and pressure sales antics imaginable. For example, how is it possible there are only 23 copies of an e-book left? A printed book – absolutely – all of the copies printed could be sold, but come on – only 23 “left” of an e-book? Do they think we’re stupid, or what?
Let me introduce you to my friend, Marty Marsh. …

When you’re in business for yourself, I submit you have to know three things to be successful:
- Who you are
- What you have to offer
- To whom you offer it
When you think about it, get one (or more) of those things wrong, and you’ll do nothing but struggle. Everything else is, as they say, just details.
For the moment, we’ll skip the ‘who you are’ part and talk about the ‘what you have to offer’ and the ‘to whom you offer it’ parts.
Anything you decide to offer is …