How to Set Up Google Adwords For Your Online Store Setting up Google Adwords need not be complicated. With just a few simply clicks, you can begin getting qualified leads to your online store in a matter of minutes. Here is a short, step by step process to get you started broken down into 3 parts: Part I – Setting [...]
When starting a new business or ventures, it’s inevitable that you will acquire a second phone number to keep things separate. Typical solutions include purchasing a new phone and sim, or transferring your new number to your current phone. But carrying multiple phones around is a hassle and transferring numbers means risking a mix up and revealing personal emails. This [...]
I believe the only real thing in the way of our dreams and goals is ourselves. We may cite external factors: economy, friends, family, etc, but the facts usually show, it is our own thoughts and actions that lead us our results. I use to play the blame good as good as any, as it is much easier to cite [...]
Every time you focus your attention on a task you use a considerable amount of your brain’s and body’s viable resources. This means that each task we engage in, or distraction we succumb to, we become considerably less effective on what we were originally engaged in. Aka, less productive. Consider the facts: Office distractions eat an average of 2.1 hours [...]
From blog post, to web design, from logo’s to research, I have outsourced an array of work on Elance and other platforms. Below are are a few of my personal tips for getting talented people to bid on your work , the biggest bang for you buck, and the most important thing: your satisfaction. 1. Define all Task as Specific [...]
The Shopify Contest is upon us as Shopify is launching its second build a business contest. For all of those at least teetering with the idea of your own business, I highly recommend checking it out. Here is what they are offering this year for all those who enter: Seth Godin’s “Poke the Box” Gary Vaynerchuk’s “The Thank You Economy” [...]
Steven Pressfield’s new book ” Do the Work” is an absolute gem. I am ashamed to say I read it as fast as I did, as I felt I could have absorbed so much more at a slower pace. It is both enlightening and entertaining. Never have a read a book that deals with fear, as Steven puts it “resistance”, [...]
It has been way too long since my last post, so to my one subscriber at the moment, I do apologize. I recently just returned back to the US after spending a substantial time in Hong Kong and I am pleased to report that Hong Kong is an absolute must for any serious traveler. I am a huge fan [...]
This post comes from an important lesson I learned after started my 3rd online business. Advice I learned long ago, but failed to follow. This of course lead to more wasted time and money than all previous endeavors. The lesson is simply this: Define Your Customers and Test Your Market Before Product Creation. This is especially true if your billion [...]
How to Join the Top 3 Percent In Mark McCormack’s book “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School” he tells of a Harvard study conducted between 1979 and 1989 about the effects of people who set goals. In the study, the graduating class of the 1979 Harvard MBA program were all asked if they had any clear or [...]
