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In order to craft your elevator pitch you first have to know what an elevator pitch is.

According to Wikipedia this is the definition: “An elevator pitch, elevator speech, or elevator statement is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a person, profession, product, service, organization or event and its value proposal.

The name “Elevator Pitch” reflects the idea that it should be possible to deliver the summary in the time span ...

You have just come from your check-up and have been given a prediabetes diagnosis. What does this really mean? Will your prediabetes diagnosis turn into full-blown diabetes? Does this diagnosis mean possible blindness, nerve damage and maybe amputation in your future?

You can relax, there are ways to protect yourself from all of the dreadful consequences of diabetes gone wild. There are steps you can take right now to reverse this diagnosis.

Before we get to the "What to Do Now" you need to know what this diagnosis really means. ...

When talking to people new to the world of websites and how they work, I've found there's a lot of confusion surrounding the relationship between cPanel and WordPress. What do each of these do? When do you use cPanel and when do you use WordPress?


Let's begin at the core.

Most of us know, in order to have a blog or a website, you need a web host. When ...

Today the remnants of Hurricane Isaac have reached Illinois with much needed rain. Yesterday, I went to town to do my shopping and found chaos. Both the grocery store and Walmart were packed. The isles were full and so were the shopping carts. People were panicked! I guess it was the videos of New Orleans and ...

I was reading through the questions on LinkedIn the other day and thought this was an interesting Social Media practices question…

“What are the basic mistakes small businesses make with social media?”

When I got done answering the question, it occurred top me that you might want to know the answer to this one too. ...

When I first started my online business, I was clueless

Silly me…

I had 25 years of business management and marketing under my belt and thought this was gonna be a walk in the park. I mean, I’ve run businesses with 50+ employees. Surely conquering the world behind a computer screen in my jammies would be a piece of cake, right? Wrong!

I think that’s what most of us think when we start an internet business. How hard can it be, right? After all, we’ve seen so much about average people finding overnight internet success on autopilot, while they slept. If they can do it, ...