As you know, I don’t have much time for the fluffpreneurs and their nonsense advice that tells people to follow their passion and the money will follow. That’s terrible advice given by broke people to people that are stupid enough to listen to them. While having a passion or interest in the area that your business serves is helpful, it’s not a prerequisite and truthfully sometimes it can actually hurt you as your passion blinds your common sense.
3 Keys To Quick Success In Your Side Hustle
Ok, that subject line is very heavy on the clickbait, but stay with me. Many of the emails I write are a bit more… Cerebral. I like to make you think and I try to write from a perspective that forces you to stretch your brain a bit.
Spare The Rod, Spoil The Child
I genuinely hate it when groups and communities become cheerleading squads. In the online world, this happens way more than it should. A Facebook group or private forum starts allowing or encouraging “accountability threads” and then everyone chimes in to tell the people posting how awesome they are for trying.
Beggars Can’t Be Choosers
Last week I had an acquaintance ask me for a small favour – they had a friend who had just started an online shop to compliment their physical store. The idea that they had was that they could sell stuff on their website and ship it from their retail store. This person figured they could slightly increase the inventory of the stuff in the shop that sold well online and it would help increase their volume and margins.
Savouring Small Victories
In amongst everything we do day in and day out, it is pretty easy to lose sight of the little wins you’re having on a regular basis. Life is pretty hectic for most people now, especially those of us who are working, running sometimes multiple businesses on the side and still trying to maintain some semblance of a normal, socially well-adjusted life with our friends and families. With all of that going on, we often get lost in the bigger picture.
Failing Instead Of Changing
Today was Saturday and I had a few things I wanted to get done this morning. I’m travelling two days a week at the moment for work and then the other three days I’m a bit busy, so some basic things like going to the bank or the post office is a bit challenging during the normal work week. I’m sure many of you reading this can relate.
Overcomplicating Your Business
One of my favourite sayings comes from a very strange source, Coco Chanel. Coco was the French designer behind the famous Chanel brand. She once said, “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
Slapping Lipstick On The Pig
As you may recall, I moved house about six weeks back. We didn’t move far, about 500 metres (or yards) up the road from where we were living. The owners of the place we were living started behaving like they were going to sell without being straight with us, so we found something else and left.
Letting The Inmates Run The Asylum
There are times in running your business where you need to make some strategic decisions that may not be popular with your customers and partners. When these instances occur it is from my experience one of the hardest things you’ll ever have to manage.