I am glad to say that I have finally finished and filed my taxes for 2007. I have been self-employed for just over 4 years now and the one thing I dislike the most about being self-employed is doing taxes. It always feels like I have just been kicked in the crotch and I am [...]

Do you ever hear someone say something that just knocks you on your ass? It happened to me last Friday. I was listening to the radio (CBC). There was a discussion about the ongoing problem of slavery. The fellow said that it was William Wilberforce’s challenge to make people believe/understand that [...]

According to Google Analytics this post might not mean a lot to roughly 78% of you, since you are already using Firefox, for the 22% of you that are not using Firefox you need to keep reading. If you take your blogging seriously at all you need to use the best tools for job.[…]

Are you an explorer? Do you explore the vast capabilities of the inter-tubes? I would like to think of myself as an explorer. I imagine there might be a couple different types of people out there. If I was to setup a neat, little binary for you I might say—there are [...]

Are you asking the right questions?
Generally, I don’t seek out the news. I often hear it, but I will change the station or channel if I feel the news diverts from need-to-know information to what I might consider fear-inducing or just flat out depressing information. A large world topic and one [...]

Do you like my fancy Photoshop work? You see, a good marketing strategy is to have a picture with many people in it so that others will think we are a big company and they will trust us and give us money! Epiblogger isn’t just two people, it’s four people… right.
Being that [...]

There are many ways to market your blog, both on and off the Internet. I think as bloggers we don’t use some of the more traditional marketing methods. Perhaps it is a case of not having any money to create t-shirts or order promotional items or maybe we just don’t think about it.
I was recently [...]

Life has been hectic the last few weeks for myself. I have been getting many requests for work with my business and to top it off we have taken a small family trip to visit relatives. Rhett also has been very business with work, looking for a house, and partying it up in Las Vegas. [...]

I had started this post to submit it to the Pet Peeve week group writing project, but it unfortunately has been called off so you all get to enjoy it.
WordPress 2.5 has been released to the world and it offers a redesigned administration user interface that is a joy to work with. There is no [...]

Yes, there is now advertising on Epiblogger. Lee and I hadn’t expected our little blog to grow up so fast, but they always do, don’t they? We actually hadn’t planned on putting any advertising on Epiblogger for a while, but someone sought us out. So we had to consider it.
Before I talk about [...]