Business Assumptions: What You Can Learn
You know what they say about assumptions? They make an "ass" out of "u" and "me". While we should try… [more]
Getting Hit with Sickness and Figuring Out How to Still Work
Last week, we took my son into the doctor for his one year vaccinations. He has been teething and we… [more]
Niche Site Experiment for Passive Income
As if I needed another site to manage, right? :) As I have mentioned before, I am a huge fan of Smart… [more]
Blog Monetization with VigLink
When I first heard about this program, I was very iffy about it. I asked about it on Twitter as well… [more]
Best WordPress Plug-ins for Your Blog
I've been using Wordpress for quite some time now and have tried out multiple Wordpress plug-ins on my… [more]
Writing
Using a Pen Name
When I first began writing online (way back when), it never occurred to me to use … [Read More...]
Remaining Persistent in Attracting Clients
Last week, I emailed two local colleges about offering continuing education classes. … [Read More...]
Conducting Keyword Research
Over on the Smart Passive Income blog, Pat Flynn just completed his first webinar. … [Read More...]
Productivity
Getting Hit with Sickness and Figuring Out How to Still Work
Last week, we took my son into the doctor for his one year vaccinations. He has been … [Read More...]
Improving My Productivity: Saying Goodbye to Multi-Tasking
When interviewing for jobs, I would often respond that multi-tasking was one of my … [Read More...]
Taking Breaks to Improve Productivity and Creativity
I seem to notice two different types of people who are self-employed. In the first … [Read More...]
Managing a Website or Blog
Five Things That Annoy Me About People Online
As I was browsing around on the Web this morning, mainly from clicking on Twitter links, I kept rolling my eyes. Self-proclaimed gurus making stupid mistakes online for all of the world to see. Let's get started, shall we? 5. Email address not tied to a domain. You run the website xyz.com and instead of having an email address of yourname@xyz.com, your contact us page lists your email as yourname@yahoo.com. … [Read More...]
Niche Site Experiment for Passive Income
As if I needed another site to manage, right? :) As I have mentioned before, I am a huge fan of Smart Passive Income. Pat Flynn who owns it is completely transparent on his blog and shares so many great tips about creating passive income. He has been experimenting with niche sites and is already earning a return on them in just over a month. I was shocked to find out that his niche sites only … [Read More...]
Blog Monetization with VigLink
When I first heard about this program, I was very iffy about it. I asked about it on Twitter as well as on Facebook and found that most people were not familiar with it at all. For that reason, I installed in on some of my blogs and not on others. However, it will soon be operating on all of them. What is VigLink? VigLink is a program that turns participating company links on your website into … [Read More...]
Inspiration
Be Honest in Business Dealings
Perhaps, people believe it is easier to stretch the truth in the internet world about who they truly are as a person. They either exaggerate their past experience or their affiliations with certain groups. Recently, I had someone contact me about providing services for his business. I did a little Google searching to try to get an idea about what he did before I contacted him as his email did not … [Read More...]
I Live in Two Worlds
As an entrepreneur, I have two branches of my business that I manage. The first is related to the Army and the second is related to writing. I sometimes find it hard to go back and forth between the military world and the writing world. I have accounts for each on several different social media networking sites and get to see a stream of consciousness for both sides. On the military side, there … [Read More...]
Remember Those Who Serve on Memorial Day
I was born on Memorial Day and, today, I celebrate my birthday once again on a day of remembrance of those who have given so much for our country. I won't go into a long tirade about my feelings about Memorial Day and the vast number of people who seem to simply not get it. It seems rather pointless to do so. I have already read more blog posts and comments this morning to more than get my blood boiling. … [Read More...]
