One reason I know so darn much about running a business as a solopreneur is I’ve been doing it for over 20 years.

And what amazes me, what never changes, is that the learning curve is always ahead of me. I used to think there was a catch-up point, and I’d race for it. Took a while for me to notice that each time I got close, the curve simply…

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I confess: Twitter has totally seduced me. Without a phone booth in sight, I can switch into my Twitter cape and tights in the blink of an eye.

But it hasn’t always been this way.

Back in August of ’07, like many, many others, I thought Social Media was a huge waste of time. And I found it impossible to imagine why people I highly respected, like master coach and artist Molly Gordon, MCC, and Joan Stewart, kick-ass free publicity maven (both three-time presenters on the annual smARTist Telesummit), were bothering.

Then I was drawn into a free series of teleseminars on Social Media (yup, free gets me too!) and by the end I got it: the word social was a historical reference to the beginning of the Facebook phenomenon, when college students wanted to stay connected to friends.

But like all things web-related…

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I’m so excited by what just happened on the First Day of smARTist 2009 that I simply have to share some of it with you.

The five panel members…

as far afield from each other as Molly Gordon in Seattle, Guillermo Cuellar in New England, Nancy Marmalejo and Lucia Cappacionne in Southern California, and artist Shirley Williams in Ontario, Canada…

…seemed to be flowing from an interconnected river of knowledge as they responded to the questions that came straight from this year’s smARTist participants. 

I found the panel’s answers to be practical in their collective wisdom, that only when we…

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