You know that big massive behemoth of a project I’ve been working on? The thing that’s turned my posting frequency here to something similar to National Geographic? Yeah, it’s done.

You know whether you want this or not, so I’m not even going to go there with the selling. But.

The first 2000 copies are going for half price.

Why? Because I’m nice. And because I’m moving to England and everything costs double in England. And because I’m nice.

If you were around for the SEO School debacle, you know what’s about to happen. Over the next several hours, some very big name marketers, ones in the business of squeezing every last dollar out of their readers, are going to be sending a shitload of people here. It’s going to be nuts because it was nuts last time and last time nobody had ever heard of IttyBiz. Read More

I tried to make this a video post but I kept crying. We buy this totally sexy new video camera for the expressed purpose of shooting videos like the one you’re not currently watching and we can’t use the damn thing because I keep bursting into tears. Therefore, you just get a blog post and I can sob and sniffle as much as I want and you can’t even tell.

Na na na na na na.

In February of this year, my consulting and freelancing career was doing better than I’d ever hoped was possible. Four months earlier I was able to hire Jamie (if you’re new, that’s my husband) to come and work for IttyBiz. We were drowning in clients and earning about four times the average household income in this country. Things were going well. Read More

Take a Hummer full of average self-made millionaires. Strand them in the desert. Strip them of their money. Take away everything they own. Rob them of their connections, their networks, their families.

Ten to one they’re millionaires again in less than five years.

Can you be a millionaire in five years?

As it stands right now, probably not. So what is it that’s different about John Q. Millionaire? Why can he take his kids to Euro Disney and you can’t?

Because he depends on himself and the rest of the world depends on, well, the rest of the world.

We used to be self-reliant.

For 40,000 years of human history, we depended on ourselves. We were part of a small network of people who helped each other out, but mainly we fixed our own clothes, cooked our own meals and traded our own chickens to make our way in this world. Read More