Life as an Internet Entrpreneur

Who Are You? Who Are You?

When your life changes in a radical way, what do you rely on to keep yourself moving forward? That’s a good question to have a solid answer to, I believe. Many people define themselves by the accumulation of their material belongings, their careers, or their family roles. There is nothing inherently wrong with this, unless it is the primary method... 

Ready … Set … Goals! Ready … Set … Goals!

As you’re taking down the tree and visiting relatives are checking the status of their flights back home, it is clear that another holiday season is winding down. Like it or not, another year has passed and it is time to think about how to make your next year the best one you’ve had, so far. You work hard every day to build your business... 

Are You and Your Business Partners Oceans Apart? Are You and Your Business Partners Oceans Apart?

We’ve all been taught to avoid the truth if we fear that our news has potential to upset someone whom we like and respect, but being honest about your feelings doesn’t mean that you have to be tactless. If we understand and appreciate that everyone has varying degrees of skill with regard to handling feedback, and that they aren’t... 

Business Styles and Personal Productivity Business Styles and Personal Productivity

Recently, a newsletter arrived from a self growth website which explained dysfunctional personal productivity personalities.  Because productivity styles can mean the difference between entrepreneurial success and failure, I’ve taken some time to analyze this topic and provided some tips and techniques that have worked for me in overcoming some... 

Listen, Learn and Earn Listen, Learn and Earn

It is too bad that most Internet Marketers don’t understand the mechanics of a human-to-human sales relationship. If they actually had to talk to their prospects and customers, rather than dwelling in a two-dimensional world, would this improve their income potential or diminish it? Building relationships takes time and attention, no matter which... 

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How to Market and Brand Your Business

Anyone Can Install Wordpress … Right? Anyone Can Install Wordpress … Right?

If you are using Wordpress as a basis for your business website, you’ll expose yourself as a newbie, possibly open yourself to online security risks, and lose potential SEO benefits the software provides if you don’t take time to learn how it works. While it is true that installing Wordpress is simple, setting it up correctly contributes... 

Matt Mullenweg: Entrepreneur with a Vision Matt Mullenweg: Entrepreneur with a Vision

Wordpress was awarded the 2009 Open Source CMS Award last month. Not only is this a great honor for the software, it validates a decision I made to specialize with this CMS years ago and all of the recommendations that I’ve made to website clients for the past several years. Wordpress is a powerful CMS and, with the improvements introduced during... 

Stretching Your Mind Can Change Your Life Stretching Your Mind Can Change Your Life

Personally, I find it enjoyable when something occurs that seems synchronous to events in present time. The other night, such an event occurred. While rifling through papers in my desk drawer, an old fortune from a fortune cookie surfaced. It read: One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Not only is this... 

Striving for Mediocrity Striving for Mediocrity

In my ongoing study of internet based businesses, I’ve subscribed to many newsletters and met online acquaintances through Skype. Occasionally, I will receive a Skype broadcast or email message inviting me to something like this: Subject: Up to $15 per hour This is something to get excited about! Here is a way that you can make $15.00 per HOUR... 

What’s in a Name? What’s in a Name?

Frequently we forget the importance of Brand Equity. As internet marketers, that brand is not a business opportunity or a company we may have chosen to represent. While those things may assist us to get income, they are tools we use. By carefully managing the online image that is our name, we build potential for a future we cannot envision today. Nothing... 

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How to Make Money Online

Ready … Set … Goals! Ready … Set … Goals!

As you’re taking down the tree and visiting relatives are checking the status of their flights back home, it is clear that another holiday season is winding down. Like it or not, another year has passed and it is time to think about how to make your next year the best one you’ve had, so far. You work hard every day to build your business... 

Are You and Your Business Partners Oceans Apart? Are You and Your Business Partners Oceans Apart?

We’ve all been taught to avoid the truth if we fear that our news has potential to upset someone whom we like and respect, but being honest about your feelings doesn’t mean that you have to be tactless. If we understand and appreciate that everyone has varying degrees of skill with regard to handling feedback, and that they aren’t... 

Anyone Can Install Wordpress … Right? Anyone Can Install Wordpress … Right?

If you are using Wordpress as a basis for your business website, you’ll expose yourself as a newbie, possibly open yourself to online security risks, and lose potential SEO benefits the software provides if you don’t take time to learn how it works. While it is true that installing Wordpress is simple, setting it up correctly contributes... 

Business Styles and Personal Productivity Business Styles and Personal Productivity

Recently, a newsletter arrived from a self growth website which explained dysfunctional personal productivity personalities.  Because productivity styles can mean the difference between entrepreneurial success and failure, I’ve taken some time to analyze this topic and provided some tips and techniques that have worked for me in overcoming some... 

Matt Mullenweg: Entrepreneur with a Vision Matt Mullenweg: Entrepreneur with a Vision

Wordpress was awarded the 2009 Open Source CMS Award last month. Not only is this a great honor for the software, it validates a decision I made to specialize with this CMS years ago and all of the recommendations that I’ve made to website clients for the past several years. Wordpress is a powerful CMS and, with the improvements introduced during... 

Listen, Learn and Earn Listen, Learn and Earn

It is too bad that most Internet Marketers don’t understand the mechanics of a human-to-human sales relationship. If they actually had to talk to their prospects and customers, rather than dwelling in a two-dimensional world, would this improve their income potential or diminish it? Building relationships takes time and attention, no matter which... 

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Five Rules To Live By When Hiring A Writer Five Rules To Live By When Hiring A Writer

This is a guest post from Anne Wayman, who is a freelance writer, ghostwriter and blogs about writing at aboutfreelancewriting.com, a blog for freelance writers. She’s also taken all three of Yaro’s programs, Blog Mastermind, Membership Site Mastermind and Become A Blogger Premium (yay Anne!) So You Want To Hire A Writer? Until you’ve actually... 

Living The 2-Hour Workday: How To Create Event Independent Income Streams Living The 2-Hour Workday: How To Create Event Independent Income Streams

In the previous article on living the 2-hour workday I introduced the concept of travel buffers, cash created either through saving or selling assets that is designed to give you a buffer of capital you can comfortably spend if you need to while you travel. Travel buffers are mostly for piece of mind so you can relax while you travel or use in case... 

The problem with positive thinking The problem with positive thinking

All the evidence I’ve seen shows that positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything. Give someone an easy math problem, watch them get it right and then they’ll do better on the ensuing standardized test than someone who just failed a difficult practice test. No, positive thinking doesn’t allow you to do anything,... 

Andrew Warner Reveals How He Created A $30 Million Dollar Internet Business Andrew Warner Reveals How He Created A $30 Million Dollar Internet Business

Click here to download the audio-only MP3 [ 64 MB ] Andrew Warner is passionate about entrepreneurship and loves talking with his fellow entrepreneurs. He came to my attention when he recently interviewed Gideon Shalwick on his current blog, Mixergy, which features tons of great video interviews with leading entrepreneurs. Andrew has a great story... 

Organizing customers Organizing customers

The local youth theatre troupe recently put on a performance of Grease. It was a high-spirited outing, with terrific performances and it was a great way for them to spend a month or two over the summer. I was amazed to discover, though, that the budget for the rights to the play were $3,000. That’s pretty steep for a high school production of... 

Enormity Enormity

Enormity doesn’t mean really enormous. It means incredibly horrible. The problem with enormity in marketing is that it doesn’t work. Enormity should pull at our heartstrings, but it usually shuts us down. Show us too many sick kids, unfair imprisonments or burned bodies and you won’t get a bigger donation, you’ll just get averted... 

Magic beans, TV and the web Magic beans, TV and the web

New media isn’t the perfect marketing medium, and it won’t be until we find the magic beans. TV had magic beans for forty years. For forty years, anyone, even a complete moron, could make a lot of money using TV ads. Buy enough ads, don’t screw up, you’re rich. The hard part was buying enough ads, but once you did that, victory... 

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