I beg your indulgence while I reminisce for a moment. When I started working online in 1996, I lived on a 100-acre farm property in rural Ontario, Canada, about two hours east of Toronto.

We had one dial-up phone line and one computer. I know I’m dating myself here, but when I think about how I work online today, it still amazes me at how far we’ve come and how cool it is that small business owners can compete for attention on a more level playing field than in pre- and early Internet days.

I remember how excited I was when I bought a Zip Disk drive because I could store 100 MB of information! Now, if you manage your business in the Cloud, your storage capacity is unlimited.  [Read more…]