Down-To-Earth Tips and Advice for Internet Entrepreneurs
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When I started teaching people how to build blogs that could potentially make money, I faced a difficult challenge.
How can I teach people to pick the right blog topic or niche?
It’s the hardest decision to make and the place where everything can wrong right at the beginning.
No one gets this 100% right from day one, … Read the rest of this entry »
“I’m going to build a business!”
These words have a certain magical energy to them. They give every solopreneur, looking to hang out a shingle on the Internet, a sense of being on the same level as a Bill Gates, or a Donald Trump, or a Larry Ellison. The vision of a future business maven who … Read the rest of this entry »
You may recall a few weeks just before Steve Jobs passed on, Apple stock dropped a good few percentage points.
It wasn’t because of Steve’s death that brought the valuation down (it was factored into the stock market years ago when he first began to get sick), it was because the market expected something and then didn’t get … Read the rest of this entry »
Late to Bed,
Early to Rise,
Makes an Entrepreneur,
Happy, Cheerful & Nice!
What gets you so excited you can’t wait to begin working on it today?
Think about it while you read the rest of this post.
In 1997, I got married. It was barely two weeks later that my wife and I had our first serious argument. … Read the rest of this entry »
This will be the final blog post I publish on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com in 2010. Like most of my articles that I’ve written in the past six years, this one is being constructed in a coffee shop in downtown Brisbane Australia as I sip a lemon-lychee iced tea.
Tomorrow, likely the day you read this if you’re one of my more … Read the rest of this entry »
I remember being on a date with a girl, sitting in my car, working through the usual date questions and chit chat. This particular girl I had met over a year prior, who I attempted to meet again numerous times but somehow we never managed to catch-up. For a while I thought she just wasn’t interested, yet here we … Read the rest of this entry »
How My Partnership With Gideon Shalwick Generated A Quarter Of A Million Dollars In Under 12 Months
When I first started this blog the Internet was younger and many of the current big success story online companies had only recently risen to dominance.
I was fascinated with the background history behind the companies that featured heavily during the dot-com … Read the rest of this entry »
Back in August of 2005 I wrote an article that outlined what a typical day in my life was like. I linked to the post in my about page as I see it as a subject people are very interested in – what’s it like to live each day when you make money from the Internet?
You can read … Read the rest of this entry »
During the opening campaign for Membership Site Mastermind I actively observed the conversation occurring at other blogs about what I was doing.
One of the less-talked about benefits of conducting a major launch is the education you receive about your market. As Jeff Walker points out in his Product Launch Formula (PLF) program, each launch is an entirely different … Read the rest of this entry »
This is a guest post by Blog Mastermind graduate student, Francis Wade, who you may recognize as the time management expert with the Jamaican accent from his testimonial video. You can read about Francis and find more of his time management tips at his blog – http://2time-sys.com.
Managing your time = Managing your money
This simple … Read the rest of this entry »
I’m in Hawaii now having come up from Fiji on my way to Canada. I’m presently typing this at a cafe on the top floor of the Ala Moana shopping center – the largest mall in Hawaii.
In response to my recent blog posts written from places … Read the rest of this entry »
Recently I was the willing target of several audio interviews. The topic of course, was blogging, however as is customary, most interviews begin with a little background study of the person in question.
As a result of telling my recent business history I found myself reminiscing about some of the ventures I was involved in during the previous … Read the rest of this entry »
By Adnan from Blogtrepreneur
When Yaro asked for readers’ contributions for July, I decided that I should really dig deep into my entrepreneurial spirit to ask myself How Do You Become A Successful Entrepreneur? Now this article definitely is not the be all and end all of ways to become a winner in business online or offline, but some … Read the rest of this entry »
By Herb Firestone from SEO for Smart People.
If you’ve owned your own business before and you’re on the diving board trying to decide whether to dive headfirst back into the entrepreneurial pool, you’re not alone. If this is your situation, or even if you’re considering entrepreneurship for the first time, let’s just say, Yaro absolutely hit the … Read the rest of this entry »
By Herb Firestone from SEO for Smart People.
If you’ve owned your own business before and you’re on the diving board trying to decide whether to dive headfirst back into the entrepreneurial pool, you’re not alone. If this is your situation, or even if you’re considering entrepreneurship for the first time, let’s just say, Yaro absolutely hit the … Read the rest of this entry »
All you sensitive types out there reading this are going to know exactly how I feel right now.
Someone just unsubscribed from my email list telling me that what I was teaching was “too basic and boring“.
Ouch.
Yeah, that hurts. But he or she is probably right. What they are learning from me is too basic … Read the rest of this entry »
On Monday I attended the latest YNOT event with David McMahon, a founder of Fone Zone, one of the largest retailers of mobile phones (cell phones) in Australia. David’s presentation was good, while he offered no revelations for me he certainly reiterated a lot of what the business textbooks teach and showed that he has applied these principles … Read the rest of this entry »
Update: There is a new 2009 version of this article now available here.
The purpose of this article is to give you a window into the lifestyle of an Internet business owner and in particular a home based business entrepreneur. The example below is a typical day in my life. If you are presently considering quitting your day … Read the rest of this entry »
Are you considering the life of an Internet business business owner? Well before your eyes gloss over with dreams of endless free time and images of sitting on your couch with your laptop clicking away earning you thousands let me show you the reality of the situation.
A certain image has been promoted of the Internet business owner. It’s … Read the rest of this entry »
