First of all, you’ll be happy to know that the top search term entered into Google which results in an IttyBiz visit is “naked firemen”. Not home business. Not small business. Not entrepreneurship. More people enter naked firemen and arrive here than those who enter IttyBiz and Itty Biz combined. Oh, the glorious power of Page Rank.

Other search engine highlights:

“At what point do you think you can be an entrepreneurship”
When I was in high school, there was a grade eleven course called Entrepreneurship — which, for the record, I did not take — and the teacher had a running joke that if you could spell “entrepreneur”, you would pass. Let’s make a new rule, shall we? If you don’t know that “being an entrepreneurship” is not the correct word usage, you’re not ready.

Where they ended up:
Entrepreneurship — What To Do When You’re Scared Shitless Read More

So, you’ve been hearing about Twitter and wondering what the big fuss is about. Am I right? You read the right blogs and all of these important and successful people are talking about how damn amazing it is, and you just don’t get how it will help your home business.

Well, here is the official IttyBiz synopsis:

I officially got onto twitter in January with a tweet that read:

“Figuring out how the fuck to use this thing.”

This was followed two days later with:

“Still don’t get it. I’ll follow Maki. He gets it. Or he fakes it well.”

Not an auspicious beginning. I then spent a few half hearted weeks sitting around going, “I don’t get it”. Then I did nothing for a while. What got me to finally check it out was a combination of two things. One, Michael Martine (@remarkablogger) blogged about it. I have it on good authority that Michael is: a.) above the age of 17, b.) a very busy person who is unlikely to promote MySp***-like uselessness on his blog. Read More

Oh. Wait. Never mind. I write a site for home and micro business owners, too.

Anyway, every now and again, I like to introduce a new or small blogger to the big wide world of IttyBiz readers. (While I am not paid to do this, I do accept offers of free babysitting.) Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I give you… Crystal.

Crystal, even though she knew how I felt about free themes, had the balls to get in touch with me anyway. (Although her free theme is not ugly — it’s one of the nicer Brian Gardner ones.) Considering some of the absolutely asinine requests we get here at IttyBiz HQ, I figured that Crystal’s completely non-asinine site deserved a look.

“This site is for the 20 million American business owners running the smallest shops on the smallest budgets. Most of us don’t last three years, but we’re all doing our best to get something started and keep it profitable. Read More

Oh my God, WHY do I not read my trackbacks more often? WHY?

Please go and read the Automatic Blog Post Rehasher. I promise you, nothing you are doing right now is as important as this. If IttyBiz is your home business blog of choice, select it as your rehashed blog of choice. When you’ve seen what divine comedy this bad boy spits out, click “discuss” to witness James Chartrand getting all Angry French Dude in the comments.

Seriously, go.

Go get yourself a nice, stiff drink, because I’m going to tell you a secret, and you’re not going to like it.

Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Are you ready? Good. Deep breath now.

Bloggers lie.

Remember when you were a little kid and you had to sell chocolate bars to fund your school trip? Remember the people who rallied behind you, saying they would help you until the ends of the earth? Remember when crunch time came and you couldn’t find them for love or money, and they didn’t buy one damn bar?

These people are all grown up, and they have home business blogs.

Yesterday, I talked about all the things I would have done differently in the Taking Back The Season debacle. There was one factor I was going to include but didn’t because I thought it deserved more air time. Read More