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.
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.
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…
What if we could make every day as productive as the day before we leave on a vacation?
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.
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.
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.
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…
A collection of 101 specific productivity hacks that I have learned over my 23 years as an online entrepreneur working from home.
Being a complete newbie to the world of blogging and online marketing is typically pretty freakin’ confusing. Am I right? There’s the technical confusions, the LOADS of conflicting advice, the tons of tool recommendations which often seem like they do the same thing… and the gurus all pulling you in different directions. Meet “Frank”,…
The Internet is full of useless tips. I mean it. How many times can someone tell you to grow your presence online by interacting more on social media?
In this post, we talk about how re-evaluating what you really need – and want – in your life can make it much easier to cut the cord to your day job.
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.
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?
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…
In “internet years”, I am an old goon when it comes to blogging and online business. I’ve been at it now for 15 years. I got started as a technology blogger, built that into a six-figure business, then started this site about 10 years later. In doing it myself, by helping other people do…
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…
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…
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.
It has been estimated (depending on where the stats come from) that between 50% and 70% of businesses started will fail within the first 18 months. While I don’t have numbers to back it up, I can almost guarantee you that once we go online, the failure rate is higher than that. And, 18 months? Pfft. It happens a lot sooner than that, usually. Most never get off the ground in the first place.
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.
Sometimes, to-do lists freakin’ suck. They seem awesome going in, but seem more like a source of disappointment on the way out. For some, this gets so bad they stop making to-do lists altogether. I guess they figure the no-goals “zen” approach works for them. Thing is, its not usually the fact that the list was bad. Usually, it is because the approach was wrong. Here’s something that I’ve found works quite well for me to get my to-do lists done much faster…
It comes down to the simple act of separating decision-making from execution.
Have you ever put something off? Something that you think would be a good idea, but you decide not to do it right now. And, you justify it to yourself by telling yourself that you’re waiting until the right time.
You’ll wait until you have more time. Until you retire. Until you have more money. Until… until… until…
Then what?
Often, nothing. That’s what.
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….
One of the absolute most important help mechanisms available today is the mastermind group. If you’re not a member of one, then I want you to drop everything right now and read this post. OK, everything dropped? Do I have your attention? OK, then. Let’s move forward… The idea of a mastermind group was…