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Looking Back Before Moving On

When I first started Entrepreneurs-Journey I wrote something that I believe was one of the most powerful rapport building pieces of content I have ever created.

I called it my “Business Timeline” and it was exactly what it sounds like, a chronicle of my life as an entrepreneur.

Since this blog began when I had already enjoyed … Read the rest of this entry »

How I Created My New Sales Page Video (And Why I’m Taking A New Approach)

I recently had the opportunity to play with a couple of great cameras to record some videos. After some trial and error with lighting, I finally came up with a setup that combined the Canon 6D with an Ikea lamp and a Rode lavalier lapel mic and went to work recording videos.

The big video I needed to create … Read the rest of this entry »

My Secret To Good Online Video Lighting: A $20 Lamp From Ikea

Over the last two weeks I’ve been doing some video recording work at home.

My goal was to create a new optin video for the new EJ design I have coming out soon. I also needed to create the video for the sales page of my upcoming product, the EJ Insider, a monthly interviews club.

I’ve been recording … Read the rest of this entry »

What Happens When Your Mother Dies

I don’t know how to start this article other than write the sad news that my mother passed away a month ago.

You may remember back in June 2011 she had a fairly significant stroke, which I wrote about in The Day My Life Changed and again in My Most Challenging Year Part 1: When Family Tragedy Strikes.… Read the rest of this entry »

I’m Heading To Sydney! – Yaro.TV Video

I’ve made the decision to spend most of the month of May in Sydney.

I’m going there to visit friends, explore some of the cool suburbs, sit at cafes and do my work, and hopefully attend a few events if there are any in May (if you know about startup or blogging or internet/social media events in Sydney in … Read the rest of this entry »

What To Do When You Run Out Of Money And Time?

A few months ago Walter, Mick and myself were at one of our regular Wednesday team meetings for CrankyAds, the advertising management tool for blogs that we have been working on together for over a year.

This particular meeting, I have to say, was not fun. We reached a point in our development process that was … Read the rest of this entry »

CrankyAds Can Now Manage Your Google AdSense

Just over a month ago, CrankyAds (my startup with two partners, Walter and Mick) made a huge shift in how we are developing our business and in particular, how we prioritise and create new features for our service.

I’ll write more about why we made the shift and how it was different from what we were doing previously, in … Read the rest of this entry »

Attention Affiliates: Become A Blogger 2.0 Launch Begins This Week

I’ve been asked many times over the last year or so where my affiliate program is. Since I closed down all my coaching programs, my affiliate program was shut too.

I’m happy to say with the imminent opening of Become A Blogger 2.0 (Gideon, Leslie and I start the launch this week), the affiliate program is open too!

I’ve … Read the rest of this entry »

How I Created Our Pitch Deck For Investors And Tales From Our First Startup Presentations

As you may know I’ve turned most of my business attention towards a startup called CrankyAds for the past year or so.

Our team has been busy with the beta version of our software, ironing out bugs and figuring out what are the most important features to work on.

This process of running a software startup has certainly been … Read the rest of this entry »

My Tech Startup Journey: Learning How To Fund A New Software Company

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com has always been a sounding board for my own use as an entrepreneur. From the day I started blogging I wrote about what I was up to with whatever business I was focused on at the time.

Blogging is fantastic for all kinds of business reasons, but it’s also great as a tool just to write about what … Read the rest of this entry »

Want To Sell Ads On Your Blog? Introducing CrankyAds.com

I am very pleased to announce that CrankyAds.com, my new ad management system for bloggers, is ready for a full public release.

You can download the plugin for free from here -

http://www.crankyads.com

The plugin is currently available only for WordPress bloggers, however in the future we will have options for any website.

It has been tested on … Read the rest of this entry »

The Challenge Of Developing A Software Startup

I’ve been working on CrankyAds.com now for over a year, although there have been a few start-stop sessions, so it hasn’t been exactly all-steam ahead during that time.

Developing software is a lot of fun, when you have the people who can make your vision a reality. Thinking of how you want something to work in your head and … Read the rest of this entry »

My Most Challenging Year Part 2: A New Business Is Born

If you haven’t read part one, you can do so here – My Most Challenging Year Part 1: When Family Tragedy Strikes

At the start of 2011 I set up this blog to run as automatically as possible.

A stay at home mum friend, Steph, from my city Brisbane came on board as editor and head of new writer … Read the rest of this entry »

My Most Challenging Year Part 1: When Family Tragedy Strikes

As is tradition here on EJ, this is my end of year post, or two posts in this case, recapping the year that was and my plans for the year coming up.

Yesterday I read over the article I wrote at the end of 2010 – My Big Plans For 2011. Things didn’t go exactly according to plan … Read the rest of this entry »

Blog Mastermind Closing Forever This Friday (Plus A Story About Video Games, Magic And Skating)

When I was about 5 years old I discovered my first love – video games.

It all began with a nintendo entertainment system. There was nothing more important in my life at the time than Super Mario Brothers.

My passion grew as I grew, going from nintendo to the sega master system, to the mega drive, the … Read the rest of this entry »

Blog Mastermind Is Closing Forever

At the end of this month, September 2011, my course Blog Mastermind will close forever.

Only current members and those who join before the end of the month will have ongoing access to the program. No one new will be able to buy their way in again, no exceptions.

As a special discount for the closing down period, I’ve … Read the rest of this entry »

The Day My Life Changed

Almost a month ago I woke up to a phone call at 7am. It was my mother’s partner’s son calling me to tell me that my mum had a stroke and was in hospital.

She had been watching TV, heard a buzzing noise, had a seizure and started speaking gibberish. Her partner called an ambulance and although she recovered … Read the rest of this entry »

Why I Am Cutting Costs And Changing Business Models

The last few months have been interesting. I’m currently going through a transition phase. While I experience this process I think about my business goals, what kind of money I want to make, how I want to make it and what roles I specifically want to do. This takes time.

It’s an exciting process, one that very much appeals … Read the rest of this entry »

It’s No Longer Just My Entrepreneurs Journey

You’ve probably noticed new regular contributors recently joined the Entrepreneurs-Journey.com team. A few light design changes were made to the site to highlight the faces of each of these new writers, so you know which article comes from which writer. If you’re reading this through an RSS reader then you can’t see the changes, so make sure you head … Read the rest of this entry »

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

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 »