Live The Laptop Lifestyle
Enter your name and email to join my email newsletter and receive -
One of my favorite stories to tell during interviews is my first attempt to make money selling an affiliate product.
My campaign started off as a failure as my blog post promoting the product netted zero results. I briefly doubted my decision to blog and considered giving it up for … Read the rest of this entry »
Greetings fellow Entrepreneurs, this week’s article is all about techniques, one thing I’m not usually very focused on. I love exploring and understanding why we do things and how we work, but my articles have been somewhat lacking in techniques.
One of the reasons for the way I write is that if we don’t have a deep understanding … Read the rest of this entry »
Go to any blog and you will see the free report and subscriber’s box. They can come in many shapes and promises. It doesn’t matter if it is subtle in the layout or a pop-up overlay – the free report is one of the best ways to obtain subscribers. If you attach it with an affiliate promotion, it … Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
Before I tell you my story about some mistakes I made with my very first online product launch, I want to make sure you know that Jeff Walker, the father of the Product Launch Formula, is about to invite his annual intake of new students into his training program.
As part of the lead-up to the program … Read the rest of this entry »
Some of the most common questions I receive revolve around how I get advertisers to my blog, how I make money with advertising on my blog, and anything related to money and advertising.
While there are a variety of questions and answers surrounding this topic it all really comes back to the basics: Content equals traffic and traffic equals … Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, I mentioned rewards can sometimes be detrimental to business, and this required another whole article to really get to the bottom of. I was specifically referring to tangible, material rewards and incentives, like money or “things”, that we get as a result of reaching a set goal. They can and do work very well for some … Read the rest of this entry »
Many of my clients and other entrepreneurs I have admired over the years have taken their past journey and experiences and turned that, in itself, into a successful business. This could take the form of teaching others how to duplicate their success in a particular field, or sharing their interesting life experiences with others to entertain them. This is … Read the rest of this entry »
In my previous post, Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?, I wrote about the various business ventures I have tried and tested over the years. One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. In this post, I want to lay out the details involved in how I … Read the rest of this entry »
In this article, we’re looking once more at Dr. Stuart Brown’s play personalities, in particular, the one that consistently plays to win, and usually does. In previous articles, I’ve discussed how play holds the keys to your creativity, and to demonstrate how this works, Dr. Brown’s play personalities feature substantially in my writing.
There is a particular component … Read the rest of this entry »
The old adage that most people are more afraid of speaking in public than they are of snakes and even of dying is most likely true, judging by what I have seen and heard from even the most experienced and well versed speakers today. If you can swallow your nerves enough to speak in public, you will go a … Read the rest of this entry »
As I write this I’m listening to a podcast from Armin Van Buuren, the world’s number one trance and progressive DJ.
Armin is dutch, however he speaks very clear English on the podcast. During each episode Armin will talk in between songs briefly with updates on upcoming gigs and shout-outs from his listeners. I’m always impressed by how … Read the rest of this entry »
The first collection that my handbag company charm and luck ever designed was gaming-themed. Inspired by my partner’s love of bridge, we created beaded bags with a variety of gaming themes – the Blackjack bag, the Four Slots bag, one shaped like a die, and so on.
Before we even did our first trade show or contacted salesrooms, I … Read the rest of this entry »
Outsourcing! Such a beautiful word. It’s the magical word that can almost eliminate you from your business and make life so much easier that you’ll be sleeping on a bed of roses with money falling from the sky.
When I thought about outsourcing, I thought about uncle Scrooge from the cartoon “Ducktales” from back in the day, doing his … Read the rest of this entry »
That reads like a very serious headline doesn’t it? Well, it is really… there is one thing that annihilates creativity quicker than anything else. It costs you time, money and causes a higher staff turnover, so it’s really worth knowing about.
To find out about this, we’re going on a tangent away from one of my all time favorite … Read the rest of this entry »
