Well, let me just say how much fun I had talking with Scott Duffy about his journey from full-time software developer, to side hustling online course creator and finally through to full-time online business entrepreneur. It was great hearing Scott chronicle his progress and talk about some of his thoughts and motivations as he progressed over the last few years.
Building A Niche Site Business
One of the best ways to grow and develop an online business is to look at building out your own niche site. It is one of those businesses that lets you learn a bit on the fly, invest a lot of sweat equity and when you learn the formula, you can usually repeat the process.
Monthly Update – February 2018
Another month in the books and I’d say that I’d rank my month at about 5 out of 10 for achieving what I wanted to achieve. That’s pretty disappointing and as is my way, everything is my fault, so I need to rally and have a better March.
Traffic and Content Are Not Little Things
Today’s headline was a play on words – I was trying to incorporate the words, “Little Things” into the title because the website, LittleThings, has formally announced that it was closing down.
The Curse of Procrastination
I had originally read Mel Robbins’ book, “The 5 Second Rule” last year. I bought the Audible version and I really enjoyed her delivery, it might be the single best Audible narration I’ve heard – it’s like she’s telling a story. After listening to the book I didn’t delete the local copy, I kept it on my phone and when I picked up my iPhone X, I made sure to sync a copy locally from the cloud.
Treating People Like Adults
As a manager of people, I’d rate myself a solid 8 out of 10, maybe, dare I say, even as high as a 9. It’s a bold claim and normally I’m pretty humble, but when it comes to managing staff, it is something that I’m generally very good at.
Be Careful of “Fake” #Fakenews
One of the things that I said I was going to work on in 2018 is lifting my persuasion game and thus by default, I would talk about it more in these posts. From me talking about it more, hopefully, your persuasion skills will lift as well.
Are You Green With Envy?
Today, I was thinking about the seven deadly sins. My two personal favourites are without a doubt, Lust and Sloth. You can’t beat those two for a good time. I’d say that I’d give Gluttony an honourable mention because I broke keto this afternoon and had a chocolate brownie and then smashed into a pizza for dinner, so I was loving the gluttony.
Rules Are Meant To Be Followed
I’m going to show my age a little bit here, but one of my favourite scenes in Beavis and Butthead occurs in the very first episode when Beavis slices the tip off of Butthead’s finger with a chainsaw and screams, “Breaking the law! Breaking the law!” which is an homage to Judas Priest.
Cutting Stupid People Out Of Your Day
Last month, I wrote a post about the fact that we are now living in a post-truth world and I talked about how you could actually use this to your advantage to build something akin to a cult using persuasion strategies. It’s been a pretty popular page on my blog and the email itself was one I received a lot of positive comments about.