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
I was watching Leno last night. Blue collar comedian Jeff Foxworthy was on and one of the things he was promoting was his new, signature barbecue sauce. He alluded that someone just approached him with the idea and he liked it. This kind of joint venture happens a lot. And it’s a win-win-win deal … … Read more
Whether you’re an entrepreneurial blogger or a corporate marketer, you need to know that blogging is going through some big changes. The blogs of tomorrow will not look like the blogs of today. This revolution on the web is happening because the internet is changing. There’s more. More video More users More site creators 2 … Read more
Most dogs can teach anyone more about loyalty in 10 minutes than all the classes, workshops, books and gurus on the subject combined. Dogs are intensely loyal. They’re good at it. They know the true secret; it’s unconditional. Because it’s not something you get. It’s something you give. 3 Quick Stories about Customer Loyalty In business, you … Read more
I was helping some friends move a couple weeks ago when another friend blurted out a hilarious one-liner describing her romantic experience with waterbeds … push once, coast for five. You know I love metaphors. And we can use this one to understand the paralyzing effect a small success can have. Picture someone in the … Read more
A deal-breaker is something a customer just can’t get past to make the purchase. If your products and services have too many built-in deal breakers, it could hurt your business. A Deal-Breaker Example I’ve been looking at buying a new laptop recently. I really like the Lenovo T61p. I like as much power as you … Read more