Wild Streak

A great alternative to a regular detox program is to create a detoxed lifestyle. This enduring approach allows you to enjoy life’s pleasures, while at the same time caring for your health on a daily basis.

Okay, so they’re easy to make and virtually impossible to keep, but with every New Year comes resolutions. At Flying Solo we put our heads together and came up with these 11 ½ practical resolutions for micro business owners.

We all appreciate how a website’s design can help or hinder its effectiveness. Is your site guilty of one or more of these common web design no-nos?

Using thumbnails on your web site? Watch out. Straight from the “you’ve got to be kidding me” file contained in the “only in America” folder comes this little ripper from the US legal world; where law, justice, fairness and ethics are often entirely different beasties. It seems that Indiana based Cygnus Systems is suing Microsoft, Apple, [...]

So where do all the big spending online shoppers live? Nielsen has some insights. Around 25% of American adults are now spending $500 or more a year online on average, but there’s a few standout cities with seemingly deeper pockets. According to Nielsen’s 10 Lists For 2008 (PDF), Top U.S. markets for adults who spent more [...]

In a recent forum discussing the value of websites, someone remarked how a number of professions e.g. tradespeople, say that websites are of no benefit to them. Between ads in the local paper and being busy anyway, they do not need or want a website.

Our modern way of living assumes faster is better. Speed is the new king with our lives measured in bits and bytes, and dissected into micro-detail. Is it any wonder our health, performance and relationships begin to suffer? Is it time to slow down?

Results from a survey published last week show that the Internet is taking an ever increasing slice of attention when it comes to news… and television news is being the hardest hit. According to a study from the Pew Research Center, the Internet has surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national [...]

Sam Leader's article on mobile vs email and Megan Tough's article looking at the contemporary rules around using mobile phones got me thinking about another modern day bugbear of mine – the incorrect use of business emails.

Before disputing PayPal transactions using PayPal’s dispute features, contact the person you paid - it can save you embarrassment and save you both time, hassle and bad feeling. I’m not used to seeing PayPal dispute notifications in my inbox. I’ve been with the service for 7 years and during that time have only recieved 2 - [...]

So there I was quietly going about my work when foul mouthed Gordon burst in and gave it to me with both barrels. Some of what he had to say was hard to swallow.

It’s my observation that shortly after the mobile phone was introduced to society, we rewrote the book on manners. Here are seven things about mobile phone manners that really set me off.

Given it’s a relatively quiet period online for many, the holiday break is a great time for some affiliate housekeeping that can translate directly into more cash for you. Often an affiliate’s focus will be on more - more traffic, more offers. Sometimes though, less can be better if you use the time you’d spend chasing [...]

While the term has been around since at least 2006, I hadn’t heard it before and I guess that others haven’t either. So what is “spear phishing”? Spear phishing, also known as whaling, is just a targeted form of phishing. Normal phishing usually involves an email message with a link to the login interface of what [...]

I unsubscribed from a list a few weeks back and I’m still receiving emails from the company. This isn’t an uncommon situation according to a recent survey, nor is making the subscriber jump through now-illegal hoops. According to Return Path’s report, some companies are still requiring that the subscriber log in to an account to unsubscribe, [...]

Following on from my article 20 Money Saving Tips, I wanted to share free software or 'freeware' I have tried and tested. Freeware is offered by software firms on a trial basis, in the hope that you will upgrade to their subscription based product.

When linking to YouTube videos, there may only be a certain part of the video you’d like people to see. Here’s how to make it easier. A couple of months back, YouTube implemented a feature to allow for linking directly to a specific time within each video. All you need to do is to append this [...]

Inspired by those cheesy images of freelancers working blissfully from the beach, I took a towel, sunnies, big straw hat and my trusty laptop down to the beach to write my Flying Solo article in the sun. Here’s the unedited result.

The recent wintry weekend in the USA has boosted online holiday shopping sales to twice what they were the same weekend last year. According to ComScore, a mix of fewer shopping days than last holiday season and severe cold and snowstorms affecting much of the northern half of the country has contributed to the surge. Overall though, [...]

Even the most confident people feel an element of fear when they step outside their comfort zone. Think of someone successful. That person has felt fear too, but they faced their fear and gave it a go anyway. You can use fear to build confidence too!