So I got hit by a car and it screwed me up for a week. Now my family knows I’m not dead I can tell you guys. But that’s why I disappeared. I know there are those among you who are blogging from the ER but I am just not that dedicated.

Anyway, we like doing cool stuff for the holidays here at IttyBiz. If you were around last year, you’ll remember the trainwreck that was the holiday manifesto. Yeah, we’re not doing THAT again. (I still haven’t got that damn check, by the way.)

Instead, I was thinking that since y’all have IttyBiz’s and a lot of you sell consumer goods, I figured we’d do a gift guide. Everybody’s shopping for that holiday at the end of the year anyway, you may as well buy from cool people in the IttyBiz tribe instead of giving all your money to Wal-Mart. Cool, huh? Read More

While I can’t speak for everybody, I can speak for myself. And in my little world, product launch time makes me really stupid. Not like, stupid stupid. Just that I don’t have a lot of brain cells left at the end of the day. (Case in point: I just wrote that sentence as “I don’t have a lot of brain cells at the left of the day.” As opposed to at the right of the day?)

But when you’re taking on a project as big as this one, with preorders and affiliates and launch videos and a bunch of yummy free content to whip people into a froth of excitement, well, you’ve got a lot on your plate. You don’t have a lot of time to think up witty and insightful blog posts. Read More

Around this time last year, I started this blog in earnest. I had done a few posts prior to October, but I managed to get my hands on a boatload of traffic and asked them what they wanted in a small business and marketing blog. Because they were nice, they told me.

Here’s what they came up with:

Time Management for Small Business Owners

What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do is for when you’re sitting there looking and your to-do list and it makes you want to turn around and go back to bed.

How To Get Four More Hours In Your Day is for, well, you know.

How To Pull An All Nighter is for when you’re about to launch a product and you are going to email every major player in your industry and there’s a very good chance you’re not going to get it done EVER and you’ll die hungry and alone. (Not that I know ANYTHING about that.) Read More

Every day I get questions about pricing. When I did the course with the Havinator, I dominated the week four money call with a half hour rant on pricing, and I could’ve gone another six hours. I have much to say on the topic of pricing. (See pricing for service providers and should you sell on price? to get caught up.)

Anyway, so I’ve finished Online Business School and I spent a LOT of time thinking about pricing. (Speaking of price, if you’re on my advance discount list you get the option to buy it presale for 75% off. Just saying.) I haven’t seen anything really like it, so it was damn hard figuring out what to price it at. Monthly? One price? Price it based on how much money it’ll make people? Price it based on the fact that everybody’s already broke? Tough stuff. Read More

It has come to my attention that as a communication medium, blogging sometimes sucks rocks. Among its downfalls are the comment debacle, the fact that I can only realistically write in bite sized chunks, and the constant emails I get from people who haven’t read about something because their feed reader is full.

I’m not talking about those today, though, so ignore everything you just read. Today, I’m talking about blogging sucking for a whole different reason.

When I came out with SEO School and it got a review on Copyblogger, the number one search term that people used to find this blog was “SEO School Discount Code”. A whole bunch of people who don’t know me or love me or sympathize with me when I get a black eye were finding the good deals. While this is probably legal in most of the states in the union, I think it sucks. You guys are the ones giving me the love every day, so you guys are the ones who should get the good stuff. Read More