So you’ve chosen to work for yourself. Be it for more freedom, the opportunity to make money from what you enjoy or the chance to make a real success of yourself in life. It’s fairly common knowledge that if you want to succeed, you need to set yourself goals and then go about achieving them. However, how do you measure if you’re successful?

Is being successful something you want others to perceive? Is it a standard measure that you need to meet? Or is it just something inside you that you want to feel? (more…)

This is going to be a bit of a rant. It’ll be good though. Honest.

It’s been a while since I cared about page rank. One of my earliest posts on PowerDosh was about how page rank (PR for short) doesn’t matter. I’ve since found DoshDosh’s excellent discussion of why it doesn’t matter too. However, some people will just not let it go. (more…)

So another mixture of useful tips and resources today. An inspirational article by someone with a long term illness that caused them to re-evaluate their life (in a way I did with my RSI), how to optimise your Wordpress blog for high traffic, how to recover unverified email subscribers and a little humour with some very unfortunate choices of domain names. (more…)

The term “credit crunch” has been banded around now for around 12 months so I’ll spare you my thoughts on why it has happened. However, I’d like to share my thoughts on what effect the credit crunch has on businesses and what opportunities it provides. (more…)