Online Business on a Budget

Special Note- We've Moved LuvemOrLeavem and I have moved from Nashville to San Francisco, which is why the blog has not been updated in a while. The beauty of a website is that it is transportable; however, there are still a limited number of hours in the day no matter what your business is. I have been maintaining the site and posting our new Celebrity Dilemmas, but marketing has been on the back burner. I'll be gearing up this week by posting a long overdue press release about the new site...Read Full Story

As many of you know two of the main factors about me that shape much of how I run LuvemOrLeavem are 1) I'm not very technical (although I'm learning) and 2) I love to get a bargain (sometimes known as being cheap.) I recently finished reading the book "How to Be a Geek Goddess" by Christina Tynan-Wood, technology writer and blogger at GeekGirlfriends.com . This book is targeted at women, but it is filled with valuable information for anyone who would like to bring their technology skills up...Read Full Story

The big news at LuvemOrLeavem is that we are a winner in StartUp Nation's Top 100 Home-Based Business Contest. We came in at number 5 in the category of Most Innovative. You can view our winning profile by clicking here . We've had lots of traffic coming into the site, and of course we hope that this award will bring more publicity our way. We are still waiting on results from our entry in Divine Caroline's Love this Site Awards. In each category they choose two winners. One based on votes...Read Full Story

Low Tech, Free, Time Saving Products This week I found 3 time saving products that are free and easy to use. Here they are: Tiny URL Tiny URL - takes a long URL (web address) and makes it very short. For example, I entered a contest for home-based businesses, and if I email the link it is : http://www.startupnation.com/homebased100/contestant/1383/index.php , after using Tiny URL, the link http://tinyurl.com/5cb4q 4 will get you to the same place. The 67 character URL is now 25 characters...Read Full Story

LuvemOrLeavem has expanded into video blogging. If you hit upon the right topic you can get thousands of views on YouTube and hopefully a certain percentage of these viewers will visit your site. That is my theory behind my venture into video blogging, even though my most successful YouTube videos have views in the hundreds rather than the thousands. Here are some tips for making your own video blog which I hope you will find useful. What Type of Video Camera Should You Use? The 2 main...Read Full Story