Investing in Your Business: What BSchool Did For Me

It’s that time of year again.  If you run in certain circles, you already know it: Marie Forleo is opening up enrollment for her mega-successful business course, BSchool.

The emails from affiliates start rolling in.  The reviews.  The sign-up bonuses.  It’s heady.  I thought I’d put my story out there for people, because I’m not an affiliate for BSchool. I’m not trying to sell you on it.  I’m more of an impartial reviewer—and that’s important, because BSchool is a big decision.

Two years ago, I was swept up in the excitement. A year …

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Confession: Why I Hired a Ghost Blogger

They say confession is good for the soul….  So here goes.

In December of 2013, I hired someone to help me with my business… and my blogging.

I don’t know if it will be controversial to tell you this.  But it’s out there now!  Her name is Emily, and she’s a contributor over on my food blog, Laughing Lemon …

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5 Amazing FREE Tools that Help Me Run My Business

Much like many of you, I started this business on a shoestring.

Actually, a shoestring might be exaggerating—a thread might be more accurate.  I’m really big on not investing a lot of money in an idea until I’m SURE it’s going to pay me back. So, anything FREE? I was (OK, I still am) all over that stuff. To start this business I paid for the domain name, added it to an existing hosting account, and paid $32 for my fancy illustrated avatar lady on the home page from iStock—and that …

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