Anybody who is anybody in internet marketing is talking about StomperNet today. Well, I joined this $800 a month internet marketing extravaganza, and I have a lot to say. Read on, folks.

First, some backstory…

Recently, a very good friend of mine and I decided to start a little home business venture. We figured that although we had a very high level of combined knowledge of many relevant facets of our business model, we should look into coaching or membership sites to make sure we were sharp as tacks when it came to our ittybiz.

In Came StomperNet

For those of you not in the know, StomperNet is the most hyped product launch I’ve ever seen. Remember here that hype is my bread and butter. Hype is going to put my kids through college, but this hype was unheard of. New Coke and the original 1984 Apple computer had nothing on this shit. We were bombarded, y’all. Read More

(This is a guest post from the lovely David of PostcardPerfect. One of his taglines is “Because frankly, ecards are kind of lame.” You can see why he fits in well with IttyBiz.)

Want me to swear under my breath? Ask me the following question:

“How’s PostcardPerfect coming along?”

I suppose I should explain. PostcardPerfect, my one year old home business start-up (unofficial slogan: “bringing sexy back, one postcard at a time”), went from an exciting initial launch to a flat-line of progress. Frankly, it’s embarrassing. For the last six months I’ve been answering said question with some variation of: “Umm..you know….it’s coming,” which, of course, is just code for: “Nothing’s changed, get off my back.”

The animosity, however, is not because the business is doomed. It’s not because people aren’t interested in the product. At the end of the day, it’s because I have done very little recently to move things forward. Read More

Somebody I know who has a highly cool blog and home business in-the-making emailed me with a totally heartbreaking question. They emailed in response to When Your Loved Ones Want You To Fail. I thought the question (and hopefully answer) would help you guys, and the sender graciously allowed me to use the question anonymously in Ask IttyBiz.

“In short: it’s not about my little blog, it’s about the home business. You wrote a post about it – how to deal with uncooperative “loved ones”. But it is SO hard. I need help from people, b/c it’s a new biz, but sometimes it feels like strangers are a lot more helpful than friends are. Some people, whom I considered as friends, tend to disappear as soon as I ask them for something, even though I would have helped them if they had asked me for help. Read More

Every now and again in the blogosphere, you see a post about the lessons learned from blogging so far. As in, “my blog is X number of months old and here’s what I’ve learned”. I planned to do one of these last month when IttyBiz turned 0.5 but I was, like, working and I didn’t feel like it. (Frankly, I still don’t feel like it, but I’m going to retain the option to do it later when I have nothing more entertaining to discuss.)

Anyway, I’ve been doing some fun things with SEO recently and I ended up going through every post on this blog. I ran across some fun stuff that a lot of you might not have read, so I figured I’d fire some home business and blogging posts your way. It’s Monday and you’re surfing the internet to avoid work anyway — you may as well do it here and up my page views as anybody else’s. (In my case it’s Monday and I’m avoiding work because it’s a holiday in Canada. I figured I’d go really crazy and spend some time with my family.) Read More

Recently, my husband was emailing with a reader and he received a refreshingly honest email that included this line:

“She claims that she is an excellent copywriter, yet nothing on the IttyBiz site seems to showcase this talent.”

I give the writer of this email credit for his honesty. Once your blog reaches a certain point everybody just sucks up to you because they want you to whore them out. Good for this dude.

My mother always said to me that when it comes to big business, if one person writes to you with an opinion, ten thousand people share that opinion but say nothing. Same thing applies to home business, just on a smaller scale. I have a feeling there aren’t ten thousand of you out there thinking what this guy thinks, but I’ll venture to guess he’s not the only one. I’d like to address that. Read More