Updates might be sparse in the next week as I start prepping for my  trip to the Dominican Republic for a fun week of R&R. I haven’t actually decided whether I’ll actually be bringing my laptop along with me. One part of me says it would be good for me to disconnect and go on a “digital diet” – and then another part of me wants...

Just finished reading Maren Kate’s Startup School, a free eBook she has for download on her blog Escape the 9-5. It’s a fantastic quick read packed with tons of insight about her rise to successful internet entrepreneur. Maren is one of those internet personalities who’s really made her business and brand really distinct and she’s done an...

Instead of keeping all the goods to myself (that would be selfish wouldn’t it?) I decided that it would be cool to share a lot of the tools and resources that I use or have used in the past in my day-to-work. So today I announce a new section of MikeZiarko.com (above) simply called “Resources” or it’s longer form The Resources and Tools For...

An interesting discussion came up recently in a forum thread I was participating in after a user asked how blogs actually generate revenue. I thought it would make for an interesting post given that there seem to be some misconceptions about what blogging is and how blogs actually produce an income. I thought I’d ask you to get your take on things. I am...

Girls love fashion. Even more girls love to get deals on fashion. Just ask my blogger friend and fellow entrepreneur Oliva De Leon-Gan. Oliva’s concept is simple: She scours magazines, the internet, newsletters and even the mail for deals on fashion and aggregates them to be consumed daily by shopping addicts on her mega-successful blog The Cheap Girl, which...

I thought I’d take things in a different direction today. Instead of writing about what I think is useful – I thought I’d take a different approach and put out a survey and ask what you would like to see written. After all I write this blog to help others and if I’m off my mark then I’d like to know. But more importantly I’d like...