Taking the Next Logical Steps in Your Life and Business Within a week of the United States declaring a national emergency on March 16, 2020 due to the pandemic, I met with my Mastermind group in person in Austin, Texas. We had one purpose during our four days together and that was to come up […]
Positioning Yourself as an Expert
Positioning Yourself as an Expert to Grow Your Business If you are just starting out as an online entrepreneur, you will want to outline and craft a simple strategy to boost yourself into cyberspace. There are many marketers and entrepreneurs who hope to use a blog platform as their method of sharing good ideas and […]
How Is Your Writing Moving You Forward?
I’d like to ask you a question… How is your writing moving you forward as an entrepreneur? I will begin by answering this question myself. I was not a writer when I got started online in 2006. Soon after leaving my job as a classroom teacher and giving away my best real estate clients to […]
Choosing a Profitable Niche
Choosing a Profitable Niche You Can Succeed In There’s a certain hesitation people have before starting their online business directly related to picking their niche. You can’t really go any further and build a site, create products or blog about your insight if you don’t have your niche chosen. Let’s discuss choosing a profitable niche […]
Mistakes I Made in Starting My Online Business
Starting My Online Business was Fraught with Mistakes In the fall of 2005 I decided to leave my life as a classroom teacher and real estate appraiser behind and start a new life. I had been learning about entrepreneurship on the internet for the good part of a year and the timing felt right for […]
Perceptions and Expectations for a More Satisfying Life
Perceptions Lead to Expectations: The Perceptions We Hold Dear Our perceptions can lead us astray. I’ll give you an example of this here. Have you ever bought or received as a gift a shirt or other item that is labeled as “one size”? Sometimes they say “one size fits all” or “one size fits most” […]
Two Perspectives – and They’re Both Right
Two Perspectives for Life and Business Over the weekend I spoke with two men who are in my Mentor program. I had given an assignment for the Spring Jump Start program they are included in and I wanted to see where they were. One man is working diligently on a new info product. He is […]
Virtual Assistant Business: How to Get Started Now
Start a Virtual Assistant Business to Work From Wherever You Are Are you ready to hang out your virtual shingle and get started as an online entrepreneur? If you want to start a business that has a low barrier to entry, but that can produce six figures, with skills you probably already have, and equipment […]
Baseball as a Metaphor for Business
Why the Baseball as a Metaphor for Business Strategy Makes Sense I know that baseball has been used as a metaphor for business for a century. What I didn’t know was that baseball would break my heart. A recent fan, I took on the New York Yankees as “my team” at the beginning of the […]
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Disciplined Entrepreneurship Over the course of my life I never would have used the word “disciplined” to describe myself. But that all changed once I started my online business and became an entrepreneur in 2006. Almost from the start I found joy in the discipline required to make everything come together each day. Every moment […]
Entrepreneurship After You Retire – Is This for You?
Entrepreneurship After You Retire Are you retiring soon? Perhaps it’s time to start a business. I ran into a man I know in Santa Barbara over the weekend and he asked me about a situation you may be able to identify with as well. He is getting ready to retire in the next two years […]
The Best Leaders are NOT Experts
Why the Best Leaders are NOT Experts When it comes to being an entrepreneur, online marketer, or a public speaker, it’s a huge advantage if you are NOT a credentialed expert. It may sound counterintuitive, but it’s true. Here’s why the best leaders are not experts: When you’re a regular person instead of a polished […]
Right Time for Entrepreneurship
When is the Right Time for Entrepreneurship? The idea of becoming an entrepreneur seems to really hit a lot of us when we are under a great deal of stress. Work pressures or the thought of being your own boss makes entrepreneurship sound really grand, no doubt about it. The truth is, there probably isn’t […]
Your Sales Funnel and Why It’s Leaking
Your Sales Funnel: Why It’s Leaking And What To Do About It For a business owner with a solid funnel in place, it’s easy to take a look at the number of subscribers at each level of the funnel and predict pretty accurately what the sales are going to be from day to day or […]
Your Questions are More Valuable than Your Notes
Your Questions are More Valuable than Your Notes Recently I had the opportunity to do a presentation on a topic I know extremely well. The host is someone who helped get me started online back in 2006 and without whom I would have a very different life than I enjoy these days. It was a […]
Webinars to Build Your Online Business
Webinars: Your Timeline Is A Proven Outline for Webinar Success Does the thought of putting together training webinars stop you cold? If you’re feeling overwhelmed at the possibilities, you’re not alone. Many small business owners freeze up at the prospect of creating an hour-long presentation. The good news is, it’s not that difficult, if you […]
3 Proven Ways to Market Your New Business
Market Your New Business Easily The world is filled with great ideas and broke business owners with fabulous products but no sales. The fact is, ideas are not what drives most business success. Marketing does. So before you quit your day job to branch out on your own, it pays to have a solid marketing […]
Small Business Branding for Online Entrepreneurs
When It Comes to Small Business Branding, You Are Your Brand Here’s a well kept secret successful marketers know and where small business branding comes into play: customers don’t buy a product. They buy you. Your personality. Your experience. The unique qualities only you possess. There was a time when “branding” meant a corporate-looking logo […]
Earning Passive Income Online
Passive Income Online It might just be the number one complaint of people working for others: trading you’re time for money. Of course you may love your job or career. You enjoy solving problems and doing the work you were passionate at when you began. You genuinely like the work you do, but no matter […]
Internet Marketing First Steps
Internet Marketing First Steps The first steps to internet marketing success may seem like a challenge, but it will all go smoothly if you take it one step at a time. Remember that every step and every breath you take will either move you closer to or further away from your dreams and goals. Here […]
Entrepreneurship: Owning Your Future
Entrepreneurship: Owning Your Future The idea of entrepreneurship, owning your own future in the purest way, is best learned from an early age. It is my firm belief that teaching young people about business and entrepreneurship is crucial to their success in later life, no matter which path they choose to follow in the future. […]
Becoming An Expert and Authority
Becoming An Expert and Authority I have said many times that it is possible to become an expert and authority in your chosen niche in about ninety days. You may question the validity of this statement, but I have experienced it within my own business and in that of dozens of my students over the […]
Get Started Online: Business Can Be Fun and Lucrative
Today’s online world is more competitive than ever before, yet lots of people are catapulting themselves to success in record time. I’ve been working exclusively online since 2006, and based on my experience have come to the conclusion that there are three primary things you need to successfully get started online. Business you can do […]
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Marketing Lessons for Online Entrepreneurs
Marketing lessons for online entrepreneurs can come from most anywhere. During a recent Retreat I hosted in Santa Barbara our group made keen observations related to many businesses, including the Farmer’s Market, a weekend holiday festival, and even the hotel where we were staying. It turns out that marketing is the one aspect of business […]
Summer Online Jobs for Students
Summer Online Jobs for Students Now that school is almost over it is definitely time to get the kids involved in a home based business that can be done primarily on the Internet. Remember that you, as the parent or legal guardian, are responsible for overseeing the children in your life and for setting up […]
Your Online Entrepreneur Blueprint
Becoming an entrepreneur of any type is simply not for everyone. If you are used to having a traditional schedule, weekends off, and a regular paycheck you may not care for having your own business. If, on the other hand, you look forward to being in charge, having the opportunity to earn as much as […]
Top WordPress Plugins for Business
If you have been searching for the top WordPress plugins for business, you will be thrilled to know that Adrienne Dupree and I have just released a training on this topic. This comprehensive training is the result of both of us being asked so many times which WordPress plugins to use to build a profitable […]