Change can be pretty scary. I know that I’m kind of a freak of nature in that I wildly embrace change and in fact, go out of my way looking for it at times. Most people aren’t like that and with good reason, nature designs us to appreciate the status quo unless something is really terrible and even then we approach change cautiously.
Let’s Talk About Funnels
Before I start, let me say that this is one of the lengthier blog posts that I’ve created, but at the same time, if you read this, take it in and actually do something with it, it may be the most valuable one I’ve written. I’m not into hyperbole, but seriously, these 2000 words have the power to change your fortunes in your online efforts if you read them and act on what I’m telling you.
Building Your Business Part-Time
When you make the commitment to start your own business on the side, you’re making a big investment of time, energy and money into something that has a fair bit of risk attached to it. Most new ventures don’t succeed and many fail spectacularly.
Mutton Dressed As Lamb
The writers of the 19th Century had an elegant way with words. Much of what was written during that period was quite risque but the meaning had to be cloaked in socially acceptable phrases with subtle double entendres sprinkled throughout.
Biting The Bullet
Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
As someone that is so interested in technology and spends most of his waking life trying to bend tech to his will, it may come as a surprise that occasionally, even I make stupid mistakes with technology.
Convincing Yourself You’re Happy
It’s 9:30am on Sunday morning, about 12 hours before I normally write my daily email. I like to write these emails at the end of the day because it gives me a bunch of time to discover something worth writing about. These emails are part personal journal, part advice and part senseless ramblings – they have a lot of parts obviously.
Doing Your Own Thing
I spoke to someone yesterday about their business model. They were really excited to be starting their own business, but there was something in the way this young lady was talking about “what” she was going to do that just didn’t ring true. She would talk about her ambitions and her aspirations with infectious excitement, but when it came to explaining exactly how she was going to do that, she seemed really flat.
Becoming Comfortable In Your Own Skin
As we get older, most of us become more comfortable with who we are as people. We begin to understand our own strengths and weaknesses better and we’re more accepting of those limitations. In essence, we become more comfortable in our own skin.
Re-evaluating The Use Of Goals
At the moment I’m reading a book by Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, called, “How To Fail At Everything And Still Win Big”. I find Adams witty in his writing – it’s conversational, self-deprecating and at times, a bit glib. Having worked in an office on technology projects for nearly twenty years, Dilbert is part documentary, part horoscope for me.
Simplification Vs Optimization
This afternoon on the bus I was reading a blog post about another person getting their Amazon Affiliate account banned because they had the audacity to send an Amazon Affiliate link to their email list promoting a book that they enjoyed and felt would be useful for their subscribers. If you actually read the Amazon Associates Terms of Service, sending an affiliate link via email, SMS, offline (say via a flyer) or anything like that is against the rules. Amazon only wants you promoting as an affiliate via a webpage that you control.