Working when you’re broken is usually the best way to stay sick. But sometimes working when you’re broken is, well, what you gotta do. I made a flow chart.

At this stage of business development, the design of the product should serve the development of the business—not the other way around.

If you don’t create and manage your own online identity, it will be created for you, and not necessarily in the way you want.

I have made a commitment to finish the list FIRST, even if I don’t feel like it. And it has paid off. Not always immediately, but eventually.

We all envision the entrepreneur who invests all her money in an idea, only to see her dreams go up in a fiery fiasco. I don’t want to be that woman.

I can make soap anywhere I have space for production and supplies. And as long as I have an internet connection, I can sell it.

It’s high time for a letter from me, Pyragraph’s Publisher and Editor, to tell you what’s going on with our little-but-growing creative career magazine.

Balancing music with needing to put my daughter first is tricky. I have to admit, there’s something about playing music that feels self-indulgent.

You are going to take those companies on. Really, it’s a race to first place. And through systematic effort, you can totally do it.

Would worrying about my vendor’s delay make the oil ship sooner? No. So why worry about it?

When I posted about Unicorn Poop, I just sat there slack-jawed as the “share” count clicked up and up over the course of the day.

Analytics do more than just tell you how many people visited your site. In my case, they tell me how bacon soap has made my business flourish.

One day, I set the soap down with the ingredients facing me: Seven ingredients. That’s all. How complicated could seven ingredients be?

Staandup Desk received valuable input on design and materials from USA-based fabricators that it did not get from the factories in China.

Local manufacturing can lead to greater innovation, it can be better suited for smaller production runs, it is often faster, and can even be cheaper.

“The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love” has been trumpeted as the bible of art career how-to.