When I had my first child, I made a child-proofing to-do list. One of the things on that list was putting child-proof locks on all the lower cabinet doors in the kitchen. I ended up only doing one—locking the cabinet under the sink where we store household chemicals—because buying the locks and installing them was […]
Blog Idea #77 Revisited: Comment on Other Blogs
If you read other blogs, then you already have access to some potential traffic. All you have to do is update your profile to include your blog address and comment on those other blogs. If one of your comments piques enough curiosity, people will want to know who you are. When you leave a […]
Ideas: Restaurant Margins App
You’ve heard it before. You go to a buffet, and someone always tells you what you need to eat “to get your money’s worth.” On the flip side, there are always some foods you are advised not to eat at buffets because they are cheap and fill you up fast. Ever notice that the […]
Take a Weekly “Natural Day”
There is growing evidence that unnatural things throw our bodies out of whack. Food preservatives are bad for you. Cell phone radiation is bad for you. Shampoo is bad for you. Even your daily multivitamin may be bad for you. This list can go on and on, but it all comes down to this: […]
Blog Idea #17 Revisited: Find a Keyword Domain Name
Google gives special treatment to websites with domain names that match search terms. If someone searches for “pet food,” Google is more likely to show results where the words “pet” and “food” are in the web address. You can use this information to your advantage. Make a list of all the keywords associated with your […]
The Future of Business
The fundamentals of how we make a living have evolved over the past few centuries. The changes were brought about by the Industrial Revolution and have accelerated alongside technological advances. Allow me to show you a gross oversimplification to illustrate my point: The distant past-1840: Doing things we hate for ourselves. We worked our parents’ trade […]