This is a shorty story about becoming an entrepreneur. Read this if you ever thought about quitting your job and owning your own business.

I've never told this story before. Not in a blog, or in one of my books, or to anyone really. I suppose I suppressed...

So I know this couple. One is a schoolteacher who makes under $50k/year. The other stays at home with their 6 kids and makes nothing. They really like their lives. They pay their bills, have a home, work hard, raise great kids, but, living off of less than $50k/year is...

In the fast-paced world we live in nowadays, it's harder than ever to keep a person's attention. As content creators (authors, bloggers, podcasters, small business owners, etc...) we are in a constant battle to try and create new and fresh content that grabs our customer's attention and also makes them...

If you're going to start a crowdfunding campaign you will inevitably come to the point where you will need to decide what platform to use. For my first project for my book series, I ended up raising over $35,000 on my own, without either Kickstarter or IndieGogo. For my...

Cathryn Sloane, a student from the University of Iowa set off a social media firestorm recently by saying that nobody over the age of 25 should be doing social media as a profession. Her article on NextGen Journal "Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25," has...

Sarah Woodbury writes books and sells them online. A big part of her family income comes from the sales of those books; in fact, her family can live off of her income alone. Yet, because of the rising costs of health care, her husband is forced to work...

You may not know who Seth Godin is. In fact, you probably don't. Why? Because he writes marketing books, and let's face it, most of the world doesn't care about marketing. But to me, and to others in my genre, Seth Godin is the Stephen King of our...

First J.K. Rowling made the jump from traditional publishing to self-publishing. Now, look out, other big-name authors are seeing the light and dipping their toes into great big ocean and seeing how the water feels.

Case in point: long-time successful author Jackie Collins has decided to "test the...

I've written previously about how Amazon's Kindle and their KDP Select program is bringing new writers to the book publishing world, bypassing traditional publishers. But sometimes, established writers are finding a new voice there too.

Randy Cassingham is one of the first online publishers: his This...

There's no question that Amazon has changed the publishing industry by making it easy for anyone with a book in their head to easily and quickly publish it and make it for sale almost overnight without the gatekeepers of big publishing getting in the way. It's also true that with...