I was listening to an awesome audio recording from Amber McLean, The Launch Chick tonight, as part of her Launch Fest program, which discussed business models based on teaching others your craft. Essentially, the model is set up so that people enter your programs learning how to do what you do at the basic level. [...]
This is part of a series I am writing as I go through the entire e-book 31 Days to Build a Better Blog by problogger Darren Rowse. Today’s mission was creating an elevator pitch. When I write for Small Business Essentials offers practical advice in simple terms that entrepreneurs can use now. What do you [...]
As part of the Adventures in Manifesting program, I was recently asked what theme I was going to have for 2011. I sat down last night and thought about this for a long time in silence. What wrong am I going to make right? What bad habit am I finally going to break through to [...]
Have you ever seen the Supernanny Jo Frost give a time out to a small child? She basically sets the amount of time, say 1 minute, and then places the child into the time-out location. Every time the child moves, the timer is reset as the child is placed back into the location. She will [...]
I had a giant tantrum this week — like a real, honest, 5-year-old hissy fit. I was given a decluttering assignment in the Adventures in Manifesting program, and basically went into a downward spiral of obligation from all the things I have piled on my plate. I won’t go into the gory details because I’m [...]
I’ve been testing writing guest posts for a few other high-traffic sites. In one test, I churned a post out quickly, taking about 1.5 hours to write it. It got me a few hundred visitors.
In another test, I spent 18 hours writing an awesomely detailed post, including case studies, a video, and concrete examples. Result: 100,000+ visitors.
I spent 12x the amount of time writing the good one. But I got 250x the results.
Hard work is not fatal. It’s uncomfortable. — Dave Navarro, The Launch Coach I am on the path to launch a product in the next 30 days. (I’m going to put that in print so that I can hold myself to it!) I feel like I have experienced some serious highs and lows in just [...]
I’m not going to launch my new product today. I wanted to, but it is impossible to conceive the item and launch it in 24 hours over a holiday with two kids in tow and a part-time schedule. It just isn’t going to happen, and I have to be okay with that. It will come [...]
This is my entry for December 30th in the #reverb10 challenge. For those who may be unfamiliar with it, Reverb 10 is an annual event and online initiative to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next. Today’s prompt is GIFT: December 30 – Gift. This month, gifts and gift-giving can seem inescapable. What’s the [...]
This is an article on a goal-setting site with a free PDF download that walks you through goal setting for 2011. The writing in this is not all that great (I think English is her second or third language), but the ideas are solid. I’m going to talking a lot about goals in the upcoming weeks, and I thought I would share some of the links I’ve found as I go.
