Down-To-Earth Tips and Advice for Internet Entrepreneurs
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Last night I attended the Silicon Beach Brisbane event.
This is the fourth such event I have attended. They are definitely a highlight on the Brisbane tech scene, attracting 100 to 200 entrepreneurs and people involved with or interested in launching a startup company.
Brisbane isn’t exactly known as a tech hub globally, but it’s great to see so … Read the rest of this entry »
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’ve always been of the belief that success begins and ends in the mind.
Techniques and systems work, but if the driver is inefficient and ineffective, failure is more likely than success.
I consider myself a lifelong student of mindset, in particular my own. Ever since I experienced the raw fear of panic attacks I’ve realised just how … Read the rest of this entry »
Recently Glen Allsopp wrote a follow-up blog post to his announcement that he was writing a “For Dummies” book.
His new announcement? He was NOT writing the book anymore.
You can read all the reasons why Glen said no to a book deal in his blog post.
To put it simply, he didn’t like the format that the … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been thinking a lot about my plans for the coming months and the start of the new year.
There’s a lot I want to release next year and it’s all wrapped around a strategy that essentially rests on finally getting myself a proper sales funnel of my own products (if you’re new to the Sales Funnel concept, read … Read the rest of this entry »
It’s raining, just after lunch time. I’m sitting in a cafe called Blackstar in West End, Brisbane Australia typing this on my macbook pro laptop.
I don’t drink coffee, but I love the smell and don’t mind an iced coffee now and then. Blackstar brew cold pressed iced drinks, including one called “Full Creamy”, which comes in what looks … Read the rest of this entry »
During my early twenties I was introduced to the author Paulo Coelho, beginning with his book The Pilgrimage and then his most famous book, The Alchemist. I then went on a bit of a Coelho binge, reading everything I could find by him.
Most of his books I loved and still do. His writing style has always … Read the rest of this entry »
In recent months I’ve interviewed quite a few successful self-starter internet marketers. People like Farnoosh Brock, Brian Moran, Chris Guillebeau, and Adam Baker, all tell stories from the first few years of their online business where they were doing everything by themselves.
Tim Ferriss popularized the concept of outsourcing your entire life to other people … Read the rest of this entry »
A few years ago I was working very hard to achieve certain goals in an area of my life that I had never come close to realizing the kind of outcomes I desired.
Because these goals were so foreign to me I had a lot of self doubt, which only increased as I continued to experience poor results. I … Read the rest of this entry »
Hello again dear reader, I’ve been out of the Entrepreneurs Journey loop for a few weeks now and would you believe, it doesn’t matter at all!
Yaro posted a great article on the exact topic I was contemplating for my next article as I sat in silent meditation for 10 days… I wasn’t supposed to be thinking about my … Read the rest of this entry »
When I first started an internet business and began studying online marketing, and in particular lifestyle design and productivity, I came to identify myself with the 80/20 Rule.
You can read my original post explaining how the 80/20 Rule came into my life here – What Is The 80/20 Rule And Why It Will Change Your Life.… Read the rest of this entry »
I was reading an article by David Risley, where he was taking a hard-line look at what he believes are some fundamental flaws regarding the make money online niche.
The main question at the heart of David’s article was why people do not actually succeed at making money online, despite the wealth of information available to do … Read the rest of this entry »
Many years ago I lived in a share house in the inner city suburb of West End in Brisbane, Australia.
Although I prefer to live alone, I appreciated living in a share house with other people because it gave me some kind of socialization during a period of my life when I was largely spending the rest of my … Read the rest of this entry »
In my experience, one of the main reasons many entrepreneurs seek the freedom of working for themselves is because they crave variety, stimulation, and the ability to grow organically in their career. Employees who are stuck in the 9-5 routine dream of entrepreneurship as a way to set themselves free to the uncharted possibilities of a fabulous life… … Read the rest of this entry »
On Saturday last weekend as I type this article, I was a guest speaker at a live event on the Gold Coast in Australia.
I spoke in front of 200 people for about an hour. I used 27 slides in my presentation, which were almost all just one picture each slide that I put together the night before I … Read the rest of this entry »
When I first started my recruitment company in 2005, companies were still paying top level (and sometimes mid-level) sales professionals (discipline I started with) $100,000 a year and up. For me, this meant that even though in my ramp-up period my business volume was low (not many customers), my revenue wasn’t, as there is somewhat of a direct relationship between … Read the rest of this entry »
Do you want to make your business fail proof regardless of how big your goals are or how big your challenges may be? Do you you want to make sure nothing stands between you and the goals you want to achieve as an entrepreneur?
I’m a business coach who for the last 10 years, has researched the science of … Read the rest of this entry »
There are many reasons why success took its time for me. Nearly all the reasons were my own fault.
Interestingly however, I have recently noticed that many others stumble with some of the very same issues. Thus by learning to overcome these problem elements we all have a much greater chance of success or increasing our current rate of … Read the rest of this entry »
The morning I decided to write about this subject, I saw a post on one of the popular discussion forums.
It was from someone who had invested quite a bit of time and effort into building his online business, was nearing the point where it could start being profitable, but was running short of energy and inspiration to keep … 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 »
