With any goal or dream perseverance and determination are key. You can do anything you want to if you set your mind to but you also have to take steps every day to get to where you want to be. Everyone has dreams and goals but many people become caught up and forget to take...

I am addicted to digital photography! I take way to many photos and even had to buy an external hard drive to store all my photos! I am hoping for a new digital camera or camcorder this holiday season. I specifically need a digital camera that allows me to change the lens for different types...

You probably already know I am a sustainable living freak. We love saving our gray water for the garden, we like energy efficient appliances and just about anything that can save us money and energy. We even just started a “green blog”, greenpreferred.com The new energy efficient craze is LED lights. These are a very...

As we slide into the last few festive weeks of 2007, we should take time to make sure our decorations and celebrations are wise choices; not only for our pocketbooks but our planet too. Going green for the holiday season can save you some greenbacks and green up Mother Earth and it can be as...

I do that majority of my holiday shopping online and I even start buying stuff before the official holiday shopping time period. Last year just for fun I went to some of my favorite stores for “black friday”. It was exciting and chaotic but was not nearly worth the hassle in my opinion. Last year...

I have this random person who is constantly sending me text messages that I do not want to receive and do not enjoy paying for.. I have repeatedly informed this person that they have the wrong number and have even asked them to delete my number from their phone. Today they sent me a text...

In this day and age so much is done on the computer, files are saved, financial programs are run and emails are all residing on your computer hard drive. As a business owner I have to keep my records for several years in case they are ever needed by the IRS or anyone else. The...

So, I was hired on at a local golf club. A friend referred me and I got the job. This friend was also my boss, I was hired to be a catering manager under her. Well today she called me in and the essentially fired me, they felt it was best we went our separate...

I have personally been struggling with having my wordpress blog on my own domain (www.craftedcustomgifts.com) for a while now. I initially had this business blog hosted at wordpress.com but they suspended it because it was a commercial blog and they don’t allow those. Anyway, I was forced to learn how to host my own blog...

My website (Custom Gifts By Talina) went live in November 2005. Over the course of the last few months I have experienced many site building mistakes and frustrations. I am taking search engine optimization classes and chatting with several other small business owners on various groups (AZ Craft Biz Connection & QFLEA) to learn more...