Nobody knows your business better than you do. And that’s the problem. Every new successful venture is built on the back of key people with experience and know-how. But at some point, that’s just not a practical way to run a business. You can’t grow a business if you depend on key people alone. The … Read more
A couple friends that used to work for me recently asked me to be a reference for jobs they’re applying to. They’re both top-notch. They’re the kind of people that are a huge asset to a team. Which got me to thinking about how you find good people. People are a company’s most important asset. … Read more
Income.com is the flagship site of John Reese’s latest venture to help online entrepreneurs get traffic and make money on the internet. And the very first thing they’ve launched is BlogRush … a social widget to help bloggers increase their traffic and exposure. There are a few different incarnations of these widgets that help bloggers … Read more
Tough decisions are usually pretty easy to identify. They’re those moments when your only choice is to (hopefully) choose the lesser of two evils. To choose the path that’s bad instead of the one that’s worse. To try and figure out if a risk is worth taking or not. There’s no easy way to make … Read more
I’ve been playing around with some online arbitrage lately. It’s something that you can do online and off, and although the margins can be very tight, arbitrage is scalable and relatively low risk as long as you stay on top of it. Online Arbitrage Despite what you might have heard, it’s a perfectly legitimate business … Read more
99% of the people on the planet want to kick your ass. Seriously. Learn about ROI. Sure, you hack other people’s networks to send spam and it doesn’t cost you any real cash to send emails and blog comments again and again to places where there is no return on your investment. But it costs you a … Read more
Let me tell a story on a related theme first … Listening to one entrepreneur’s business plan as an advisor a couple years ago, I really liked what I was hearing. He was a great pitchman and he had a solid skillset for developing corporate identities; websites, business cards, advertising, etc. And then he said something … Read more