Growing Your Business – How to Get Over the Hump

My business partner Scott and I started our first business in 1994.  We were still in college and we wanted to do something part time that we enjoyed.  We knew by the end of our first year in business that this was more than we could handle.  We either had to give up the business, or grab the bull by the horns and really grow our new company. We learned a lot over the time we ran our companies, The Ferret Store, and later Solid Cactus.  We learned that it was pretty easy to get started, but growing wasn't that easy.  The main reason is, there comes a time where in order to grow, you can't do everything yourself.  Learning to delegate, and trust others is not an easy task, especially when it was you who grew the business to where it is today... But the truth is, there is only

Fun Day Today With Shawna Seigel on Webmaster Radio

Today, I had a wonderful interview by the very talented Shawna Siegel on her show, eCom Experts with Shawna Siegel on Webmaster Radio. I'd like to thank Shawna for having me on. One of the topics we discussed was blogging, and I realized that blogging is the one thing that I just can't find the time to do. So here I am, giving advice on blogging, but yet I'm not blogging myself. It is often hard to find the time to keep up on blogs, but one thing is for certain... If you are an e-commerce business and you have a blog that is not maintained, you'd probably be better off without it. I'm just lucky that this is my personal homepage, and I really don't care about getting good SEO for myself, because I'm not selling anything :) But if I were, you bet I'd need