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5 Questions To Ask To See If You Are In The Wrong Business

Dr Mani Sivasubramanian — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:31:33 +0000

“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 creates an empire and… Read the rest of this entry »

The 5 Golden Rules Of Expectation Management And Why You Can’t Ignore Them

Yaro Starak — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:00:36 +0000

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 »

Why Passion Is A Key Ingredient In Entrepreneurship And How To Identify Yours

Dr Mani Sivasubramanian — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:00:43 +0000

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… Read the rest of this entry »

My Big Plans For 2011 (Plus What You Need To Focus On Next Year)

Yaro Starak — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:52:21 +0000

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 dedicated… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Manufacture Perfect Timing

Yaro Starak — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:40:11 +0000

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 were… Read the rest of this entry »

Is A Partnership Right For You?

Yaro Starak — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:59:33 +0000

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… Read the rest of this entry »

How Can You Make Passive Income Online?

Yaro Starak — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:10:29 +0000

I had a meeting with a friend and his business partner last week. The request was to “pick my brain” on the best way to move forward to generate some passive income streams online.

These two particular people are like a lot of people I know. They’ve got tech skills, they know the Internet well and they have lots of… Read the rest of this entry »

A Day In The Life Of An Internet Entrepreneur 2009 Edition

Yaro Starak — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:20:09 +0000

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 »

You Are As Good As The People Around You

Yaro Starak — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:15:21 +0000

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… Read the rest of this entry »

Why Entrepreneurs Need To Invent Their Own Time Management Systems

Yaro Starak — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:43:35 +0000

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… Read the rest of this entry »

5 Tips For Success When Traveling With Your Business

Yaro Starak — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:46:27 +0000

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.

Typing on the third floor of the Ala Moana Center in Hawaii

In response to my recent blog… Read the rest of this entry »

Life Portability: Mixing Travel, Business and Pleasure In One Seamless Lifestyle

Yaro Starak — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:13:27 +0000

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 8… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Become A Successful Entrepreneur

Yaro Starak — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:00:07 +0000

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 »

Entrepreneurship: Difficult to Spell Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Even Harder to Do!

Yaro Starak — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:00:21 +0000

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 nail… Read the rest of this entry »

Entrepreneurship: Difficult To Spell – Even Harder To Do!

Yaro Starak — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:00:21 +0000

By Herb Firestone from SEO for Smart People.

You Suck And I Love You

Yaro Starak — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:14:52 +0000

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 and boring. I’m… Read the rest of this entry »

Luck in Entrepreneurship

Yaro Starak — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:33:42 +0000

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 »

A Day in the Life of an Internet Entrepreneur

Yaro Starak — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:29:11 +0000

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 job/after… Read the rest of this entry »

Do You Want to Run Your Own Business? Read this First!

Yaro Starak — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:33:29 +0000

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 often… Read the rest of this entry »