Tweet 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 […]
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Tweet 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 […]
Entrepreneurship After You Retire – Is This for You?
Tweet 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 […]
The Best Leaders are NOT Experts
Tweet 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 […]
Right Time for Entrepreneurship
Tweet 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 […]
Your Sales Funnel and Why It’s Leaking
Tweet 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 […]
Your Questions are More Valuable than Your Notes
Tweet 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 […]
Webinars to Build Your Online Business
Tweet 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 […]
3 Proven Ways to Market Your New Business
Tweet 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 […]
Small Business Branding for Online Entrepreneurs
Tweet 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 […]
Earning Passive Income Online
Tweet 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 […]
Internet Marketing First Steps
Tweet 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. […]
Entrepreneurship: Owning Your Future
Tweet 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 […]
Becoming An Expert and Authority
Tweet 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 […]
Get Started Online: Business Can Be Fun and Lucrative
Tweet 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 […]
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Marketing Lessons for Online Entrepreneurs
Tweet 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 […]
Summer Online Jobs for Students
Tweet 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 […]
Your Online Entrepreneur Blueprint
Tweet 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 […]
Top WordPress Plugins for Business
Tweet 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 […]
Dennis Becker: Earn 1K A Day Forum
Tweet Dennis Becker, Earn 1K A Day forum founder and creator, has become someone whom I consider to be a close friend and confidant. We met online just three short years ago, and then briefly in person soon after when we were both attending an event in Austin, Texas. As I began to see how […]
Marlon Sanders WP Leads and Sales Dashboard
Tweet Marlon Sanders has a brand new Dashboard available. It’s the WP Leads and Sales Dashboard and I’ve created a three minute video to tell you more about it. Watch the video, think about your own goals for creating an online business, and then decide whether or not this is right for you. Becoming an […]
Live Events Or Webinars – Which Business Training Is Best?
Tweet Recently I asked some of my online friends whether they preferred to attend live events for business and marketing training, or if webinars they could watch from home were sufficient. It turns out that many people strongly prefer one over the other, and others are more flexible when it comes to online business training. […]
Squidoo MiniSites – An Alternative to Hosted WordPress Sites
Tweet Are you looking for a way to create simple web pages to get started with income producing sites online? An alternative to going the ‘hosted WordPress site with your own domain’ route is to set up a completely free website on a third party platform. The very best choice for this is Squidoo. This […]
Online Profits: Are You Disciplined Enough To Be Successful Online?
Tweet Online profits are appealing to most of us who come onto the Internet to work, but it requires great discipline to be successful as an online entrepreneur. As I look back over my years working exclusively on the Internet, which began in 2006, I realize that I now have more discipline than I have […]
My Online Marketing Breakthrough Challenge
Tweet This is my sixth full year working full time online, so I knew that it was finally time for me to shake things up if I was going to have a major breakthrough and move on to the next level in my business. Luckily, my friend Dennis Becker decided to start an online marketing […]
How To Create An Authority Site
Tweet Creating An Authority Site Today I’d like to talk about how to create an authority site. Are you doing this in your niche? Look at the top sites in your niche (or any niche, for that matter). Most likely these sites all have at least one thing in common: their designs look very slick […]
Getting Started Online: Niche Topics In Online Marketing
Tweet Are you a niche marketer? Niche topics in online marketing will build your business quickly. Coming up with fresh ideas for new content in your niche topics is an ongoing task. Years ago I challenged myself to come up with a new idea every day for one hundred days, and that list of one […]