Dave Conrey and his mom Michele Morgan of The Right Color have this question.

“My mom and I are wrestling with an issue regarding her home business. I know that you have your startup package for a set price, but what do you tell people once they sign up if they decide to go further? She’s got a complicated price breakdown and I’m trying to simplify it a bit. Figured you might have some insight.”

Ahh, pricing. Strikes fear in the hearts of entrepreneurs and freelancers everywhere. In other parts of the internet, abortion, politics, and religion are controversial topics. With work-from-home blogs, the babykillers hug it out with Dubya, we don’t care. Just don’t talk price. Read More

My mom tipped me off to this one. I’d link to her but, tragically, she doesn’t have a blog. (Maybe not so tragic, actually. She’d probably just talk about cleaning as a recreational activity and how much she hearts the color beige. She’d say “hearts”, too, because she’s hip like that.)

Anyway, today we pick on Microsoft. (Put it back in your pants, Mac fans. Not that kind of picking on Microsoft.) Matt Farrington-Smith, someone with a tremendously long title who hangs out at MSN UK, put out a list of seven deadly sins of blogging. (Is it just me who can only remember 6 of the 7 real sins at a time? There’s always one I forget. Different one each time, too. Weird.)

So, if you want to go check it out, by all means. In the mean time, I’ll give you the synopsis.

1. Not blogging. Read More

First, before we get to my A-list status. Um, what the hell happened to my Technorati ranking? I was going along, happily nearing 25K and then BAM! Back up to 36K. What the shit is this? Is this like the conspiracy theory thing? Has this happened to anybody else?

OK, on to more serious matters. I have discovered that I’m on the on-ramp to becoming an A-lister. I know this for two reasons:

On the Penelope Trunk/What Generation Are You? post, Stephen wrote “First!” in my comments. For those of you who are not blogging nerds like Stephen and I, this is what you say when you comment on high traffic blogs, thinking you are the first one and have therefore attained a level of prestige. Generally, a heated argument ensues about who was actually first. We all know that this is a sure sign of future a-lister status. Only on cool blogs does this happen. Read More

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This page seems to have gone missing. If you’re looking for something in particular, you can use the search bar at the top right of your screen. If you just want to hang around and browse, you can check out the recommended posts in the right side bar. If you want to go back to the home business home page, click the big ol’ IttyBiz at the top of the screen.

I used to read a lot of personal finance blogs but I’ve stopped because they mostly just make me feel like shit about myself. However, I think what Mrs. Micah is doing is really cool, so I stop by there every now and again. (She does a good job of differentiating herself from many PF bloggers by not being a psycho. Mrs. Micah and I can be friends.)

Anyway, she wrote a post called When Generics Bite Back — Razor of Death, the title of which is good enough that I wish I’d written it. In the post, she basically discusses how a generic razor ate her husband’s face and they’ve struck men’s razors off the list of things that are cool to buy generic. Read More