Tag: business strategy

Cumulative Pressure: Striving For Results Even When You’re Losing

I was recently listening to a tennis podcast. The hosts were recapping the results from the US Open. One of them brought up this concept he titled ‘Cumulative Pressure’. He was specifically talking about it in the case of Coco Gauff, who happened...

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What I Learned From 10 Years Writing A Blog

I wrote the following advice when I hit my ten year anniversary as a content creator. By this point people where calling me an ‘OG’ and a ‘pioneer’ in the blogging industry. It was nice to hear, but I certainly wasn’t ready to...

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

If you have a good memory, 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, because that was factored into the stock...

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$10,000 A Month For 10 Years

In 2005, I had about 300 people reading my brand new blog. That year, I made my first ever dollar from blogging. In fact, it was $20, an affiliate commission from selling an ebook. Later that year I added advertising banners to my blog, and combined with...

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What Is A Many-To-Many Business And How Can This Model Produce Billion Dollar Outcomes

During the dot-com boom around the year 2000, and the years that followed (before I started this blog in 2005), I was a guy in his early twenties looking for a business idea to make my riches. At that stage, I had built a handful of websites. They were hobby...

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Why Having Money To Spend On Growing My Business Led To A Rookie Mistake

Many years ago I went through a ‘rebirth’ phase of my business. I was in a unique situation. All my products had been taken off the market, so I had nothing for sale. However I still had my blog and my email list, which I continued to nurture...

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What Successful Internet Marketers Know (But You Don’t?)

Last week, I shared with you in part one of the series, how a personal consulting client of mine, Tom, was struggling with “analysis paralysis”, and that the fear of doing something wrong in his online business endeavors resulted in him doing nothing. My...

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The Core Reason Why Your Business Lacks Momentum

Many years ago I was exposed to Rich Schefren during the very first Internet marketing launch he did. I had never heard of the guy before, but suddenly a lot of people I had heard of and respected were recommending him, so I paid some attention. Rich went...

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Revisiting The 80/20 Rule and Why It Is Even More Critical To Your Business Today

Although I boast I was able to run my business while traveling a circle around the globe, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t experience more pressure on the time available for work. The way I chose to travel resulted in planning the details for my...

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Why You Must Go Deep In The Changing Internet Business Landscape

One of the most popular articles I ever produced for this blog was – How To Make Money Online Using Niche Content Websites. It struck a cord with many because it made people excited when they realized how simple it was, at least on paper. It offered a...

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