Among the most important factors affecting your SEO results is the quantity and quality of links that point to your site. The better your content, the more people will link to you. Google essentially looks at inbound links as "votes" of love for your site- if you have a lot of quality links, your content Read more...

What Is A Gravatar? A Gravatar is "A Globally Recognized Avatar". According to the Gravatar website, it's "an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog." Why Get A Gravatar? A Gravatar is a great tool for Brand Education (making Read more...

It’s a challenge to find the time to stay in shape when you’re running your own consultancy business. In other posts, I suggested using a treadmill desk, or enrolling in a Baguazhang—or other martial arts—class. But if you just don’t have room for a treadmill desk, or you just don’t want the hassle and bother, Read more...

I have tons of blog post topics on my to-do list, and a lot on my overall to-do list as well. BUT I felt compelled to stop and write a quick (hopefully!) post on the despair and irritation I have on this ever-increasing tendency to focus on bad news. I follow CNN on Twitter. It's Read more...

Do you ever find yourself going around in circles? Even if you’re a gem of a consultant, even if you’re a whiz at planning and mapping out strategies for your clients, you may still feel that you’re not making much headway in your business, or that you keep repeating frustrating patterns. Why not get out Read more...

Yes,  I admit it  - I become a rabid sports fan for two weeks of the year,  for March Madness. For those of you who never lived in the Midwest, that is either the Indiana high school championship series or the NCAA men's and women's basketball championship series.  There are lessons outside of the bracket Read more...

Want to build a Wordpress blog or website, and have it match your company's brand, without all the effort of designing and coding your own Wordpress template from scratch? Consider finding a template that you can then apply your brand to. You can find great templates that will allow you to edit the look considerably. Read more...

There are, and always will be, only 24 hours in a day.  How you spend that time is up to you.  Here are some easy tips to help maximize those hours: Give everything a "home".  If you put your keys in the same place every time you come home, you will spend less time looking Read more...

What should you do if some days you feel like you’re on a treadmill to oblivion? I’m sure every consultant has felt that way sometimes, even if she absolutely loves her work. Here’s a way to blast through that cobwebby stuck feeling: get on a real treadmill and get some exercise. There’s nothing like a Read more...

I joined Women in Consulting (WIC) almost two years  ago.  I joined because of the meetings.  I’ll be honest – I went to one South Bay meeting and then joined.  The next week I went to my first General meeting and I was hooked.  I started volunteering.  And soon I started working with women who Read more...