8 Cold, Hard Facts About The Successful Online Entrepreneur
The biggest barriers to building a successful online business aren’t tactical. They’re emotional. Here are 8 traits I’ve observed in people who actually make it.
Productivity
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The Realities of Blogging For A Living – What Is It Really Like?
An inside look (and video) of the realities of blogging for a living – from a 20-year veteran of full-time online business. Both the good… and the bad.
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7 Strategies On Balancing Family Life, Online Business, And Working From Home
How do you balance out working from home and your family life? How do you keep distractions down? Here’s what I have found REALLY helps…
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The Simple Secret To Getting More Done In Less Time
What if we could make every day as productive as the day before we leave on a vacation?
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What To Focus On: A Simple, Numerical System For Ranking Your Ideas And Figuring Out What To Do, When
How do you decide which project or idea to work on first? What should you be spending your time on right now, given all that you have to do? This post gives a simple, numerical system to rank your to-do’s and determine what to do next.
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Focus Mapping: An Exercise I Perform Every Morning Before I Get To Work
In this video, I continue on the subject of my last video. In this one, I talk about focus mapping. This is a simple exercise that I do every single morning before getting to work. It guides me on the tasks I do that day, and most importantly… it helps me weed out the ones which are a waste of my time (or that I shouldn’t be doing). In this video, we go right to my screen and I’ll show you exactly how it works.
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A Productivity Tool That Has Transformed My Work Day (HINT: It Isn’t Software)
At the beginning of the year, I implemented a new productivity tool into my daily workflow. This isn’t a software based tool. And, as you can probably tell from the screenshot, it is actually just a simple black notebook. What do I do with this notebook which has provided a HUGE sense of focus to my daily schedule? Watch and find out.
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Starting An Online Business: 6 Dangerous Habits That Can Sabotage Your Success
Starting an online business can seem pretty hard… especially if you have one of these 6 common dangerous habits. The first step is to know what they are…
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101 Productivity Hacks For Online Entrepreneurs (Based on 23 Years Of Experience)
A collection of 101 specific productivity hacks that I have learned over my 23 years as an online entrepreneur working from home.
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The Rice Krispies Guide To How To Package Your Blog Content To Get Read
Do you find some of your best blog posts fall kinda flat – kinda like a bowl of soggy rice krispies? In this guide, I talk about content packaging and how it has everything to do with how your content will actually get read.
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The Entrepreneurial Cycle, How Businesses Are Created And Destroyed, And My Huge Takeaway From 2013
A look back at 2013, and the huge realization I had about how businesses begin – and how they are destroyed. What is the entrepreneurial cycle, and how do you know when you’ve taken things too far?
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6 Strategies To Avoid Overwhelm And Actually Grow Your Business
Chances are, the honest truth is that you probably shouldn’t be reading this blog post right now. You probably have more important things to do. There’s no doubt there are certain actions you could be doing right now which would grow your blog and your business. But, instead, you are here and reading this…
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The Academy Business System – A Graphical Illustration Of An Information Marketing Business
The subject of online business often seems like a bunch of separate topics which somehow are supposed to all get meshed together into something which makes sense. You’ve got social media, blogging, email marketing, copywriting, video production, webinars, Facebook ads, Pinterest – and whatever topic and flavor of the month you’d like to add…
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Introduction To The Theory Of Constraints (And Applying It To Growing An Online Business)
Ever got that feeling as if you’re working your ass off, but not much is changing? Let’s equate this to the world of online marketing and blogging: You’re sending emails to your subscribers about some offer you have, but sales are low and you can’t figure it out. You’re writing your face off for…
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The 3 Reasons People Fail In Business
Why do people fail? Why is it that people who come into online business are engaging in all this random motion and not getting anywhere? Why are they left confused on what to do next, with everything looking the same? The answer lies squarely in an understanding of systems.
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Rant: Is “Lack of Jobs” Really The Problem?
Is the economy, or lack of jobs, really to blame for people’s economic woes? Perhaps there is something more – something college students need to realize.
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The Fallacy Of Waiting For The Right Time
The right time doesn’t arrive on its own. Here’s why waiting is costing you more than you think.
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How To Avoid Angry Customer/Reader Emails To Support
Perhaps you’ve experienced it. Perhaps you yourself have done it. But it goes like this… A person has bought something and something went wrong. Maybe there was a problem with the card. Maybe the shopping cart system flaked out and caused some weird thing to happen. No “thank you” email gets sent, yada yada….
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Is SEO Dead? And, Did Google Disavow Kill It?
If you haven’t heard, Google recently announced this Disavow tool inside the Webmaster Tools system and it basically allows you to make it so that Google does not count incoming links to your site from certain places. The idea is that when low quality links are affecting your rankings, you have the ability to get…
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How To (Expertly) Use Evernote To Be A Better Blogger
I have been a heavy user of Evernote for over a year now. Today, I use Evernote as a digital extension of my own brain. I also use it as a digital filing system, complete with a scanner.
Many people I talk to, however, are still in that stage of wondering exactly what to do with Evernote. In some ways, it seems as if Evernote is a little like the initial days of using Twitter. We all go through that stage of wondering exactly what the hell to do with it. Then, if you persist, something eventually “clicks” and you “get it”.
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The Reason Why You Work All Day And Nothing Gets Done
The day is young and you have big plans.
Today, you’re going to be productive. You’re going to make the world your biatch.
By lunch, you realize that things have been a little delayed. But, you’ve still got a shot. So, after lunch, you’re really going to buckle down. This time you mean it.
Except, by the end of the day, you’re feeling a little disappointed in yourself. Because, once again…
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But, I’m Not A Tech Person
It happens. Sometimes I get an email from a reader which sparks a bit of a rant. And that’s what happened this morning.
This person (who shall rename nameless, of course) was apparently on the verge of giving up on the entire notion of an online business. They said…
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It is Time To Shit Or Get Off The Pot
That headline was a saying I learned from my family. Despite the colorful language, the motto is a life lesson that all of us need to operate by.
See, too many people live their lives in a constant state of “someday, maybe I will….”. It doesn’t matter how that sentence ends (it is different for everybody), but one thing is common. It is a maybe. Not a yes or a no, but a maybe.
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The Myth (And Danger) Of Posting To Your Blog Every Day
You’ve probably heard this before…
They say that it is a good idea to post to your blog every single day. They say that the more you post, the more Google will like you and that your audience will grow faster.
Some people don’t even start blogging or doing content marketing because they think it will be too demanding. They don’t have time, or so they think.
