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I met Brad Shorr at SOBCon earlier this month – it turns out he lives the next town away from me! As he started explaining to me his cartoon business, I begged him for a guest post. Humor is a powerful branding and selling machine, so check out Brad’s suggestions below! Humor transforms brands. Everybody has [...]

Can You Write a Valuable Blog Post in 5 Minutes?
Right now I am at SOBCon, and we just wrapped up Chris Garrett’s presentation on “More Bang from your Blog”. He’s put a challenge out to us to write a 5 minute blog post that actually creates value. Since I’ve had to do this in the past, here are a few ideas on how to pull [...]

OMG. Youz Seriusly Funneh Peeps.
ROFL. This was the funnest contest. EVAH. Am thinking I have to do it again just because you guys are so dang funneh! The Sparkplugging authors have made their selections. The following four LOLCat Caption Contest entries are the winners of Darren Rowse s and Chris Garrett s new book ProBlogger, Secrets to Blogging Your Way to a [...]

SparkBits 05.14.2008
What’s happenin’ around town… Want free consulting from the likes of Liz Strauss, Chris Brogan, or our very own Susan Payton from The Marketing Eggspert? Susan is hitting the pavement to promote her new ebook Eating Cereal With a Fork: Maximize Marketing in a Recession. Make a short video, podcast, or write an essay on why you [...]

Crowdsourcing Business How To s to Help the Work at Home Community
Last year, I ran two Group Research projects – it was a group writing project with a twist. The community around this site had a lot of things they wanted to learn about, and I knew that many readers would be able to help each other with their expertise. So we put together a big group [...]

Monday Motivation :: Planning for Distractions
It hardly feels real to say it, but summer is right around the corner. My kids have 3 weeks of school left… and then… my silent work at home haven will transform into a chaotic messy disaster for three months straight. I both look forward to and dread summer. I love getting time with the [...]

More on Interviewing a Virtual Assistant: Part 3
To continue the more in depth topic of interviewing a virtual assistant, I have added some more questions to the series. I just wanted to thank everyone who has commented on the blog. I appreciate your suggestions, ideas and comments. With this series, I am trying to give the readers suggestions of questions they could [...]

The Many Descriptions of Virtual Assistant
With my interview question “series” that I have been doing in the last couple of weeks, a couple of questions and/or statements have surfaced in regards to the “description” of a virtual assistant. Last week someone had asked about the difference between a personal assistant and a virtual assistant. They asked if they were basically [...]

Interviewing a Virtual Assistant: Part 2
I have written a previous article here on Sparkplugging regarding interview questions to ask a virtual assistant however, I felt that I needed to further discuss these questions topic to help those who may be searching and trying to find a virtual assistant to work with on a regular basis. When you are actually, let me [...]

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