entrepreneurship
Here is the working list of goals for 2011… As is my custom there are only 5 goals, and they are more “set of the sail” type goals then your classic S.M.A.R.T goals. 1. Be the kind of Dad who can raise an whole, healthy, and
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I had a guy steal a bunch of copy from the Tall Poppy Group Facebook Fan page recently. Pretty blatantly too – he made no effort to spin it, mix it up, or try to conceal it – much less actually customize it to make it suit his own business. On one
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As I post this, Skype is still down globally. There’s little doubt that Skype is the largest player in the VOIP and Internet chat communications market globally – 6.8 billion billed minutes in the first half of 2010 alone… 0.57% of the worlds Internet traffic is Skype traffic.
opinion
Here’s how to tell if your Internet Marketing guy is a noob… I can’t get over how often I see this – Even from companies that are reputable. 1. If your marketing guy is charging you to optimize for your company name, he’s a noob (unless you company
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OK, I admit it, I wrote the title like that just to suck you in… The truth is that 99% of entrepreneurs hate business plans. Unfortunately for us it’s also true that 99% of ANYONE who would ever even THINK to give or lend us money will expect to
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Being able to succinctly define and communicate what your business does is important for two reasons… 1. It helps you to define what the heck you’re actually DOING with all that time and energy (admit it – sometimes we all need a bit of help here), and 2. In a
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One of the most difficult things any business owner faces is that murky and usually somewhat awkward period between invoicing and payment. I hear it all the time, particularly from solo service-type businesses like consultants, coaches and speakers – “I have a bunch of invoices out there, I’m just waiting
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My two year old has this expression that she busts out whenever I’ve been away for too long – it’s goes “Daddy I MISS you…”. That’s kind of how I feel, with all of the crazy stuff that has been going on over the past little while it’
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Anyone who knows me, or has read more than a few posts on this blog, will know that I love Timothy Ferriss‘ book “The 4 Hour Work Week“. The strategies are awesome, and the book is inspiring on many levels – The D.E.A.L. strategy in particular is fantastic.
product-development
For my money, a good business idea needs the following: 1. A problem (a.k.a. a need) 2. For that problem to be common enough to create a market (i.e. there’s no point creating a product if you’re the only one who’ll ever use it
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One of the challenges us “part-time” entrepreneurs face is the creep of our “5 to 9″ (i.e. the side-projects) into our “9 to 5″ (our employment). We are duty bound to our employer to work for them while they are paying us, and it has become a core ethic
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This is an interesting way of looking at it… I’ll use hypothetical numbers for the illustration. This post is aimed at those thinking in terms of work or business, but the type of thinking can apply to anyone… I came up with a few creative ideas on how outsourcing