Why Being An “Ideas Man” Is Going To Help You Fail A lot of would-be entrepreneurs – and young people in general – think that their ideal role in life is as “an idea person.” There are numerous causes for this; A University system that teaches you for management roles (that don’t really exist) A…
Because You’re Worth It For those of you who are reading this on the day of publishing, a Happy Easter to you all. Easter is a festival about the importance of sacrifice. Sadly, most people sacrifice their earning potential by not knowing what they’re worth. If you’re working online, in marketing, sales or in product…
I have had a ridiculously unproductive day. But it’s fine. As regular readers will know, I sometimes whine about a recurring sleep disorder I have. Last night was one of those nights; absolutely horrendous. Now, in the past, I’d wake up and fight the fact that I already felt exhausted and try and power through…
The Dying Genre of Journal-Blog This might be news to some of you young guys, but back in the day, blogs were online versions of diaries. This had its obvious drawbacks: People saying, “look at my blog!” only to have it be a detailed entry about how they hung their washing out to dry. …and…
Working For Fun And Profit I was once again trolling Reddit for topic ideas and getting more and more annoyed at the boatload of failure that civilians have for this whole online business and writing business thing. But I did come across this interesting thread: so our guy wants to know how you reconcile writing…
The Anatomy Of Low Competition Let’s talk about internet business, and the adage that I keep repeating about competition in our little sphere of the world. There is no real competition for what I talk about. What does exist is the illusion of competition. Everyone talks about copywriting. Everyone talks about niche websites or email…
How To Tell If Something Is Real Or Online Marketing Bullshit I saw a guy the other day who’d run a webinar. In it he said that $2k – the price of his course – couldn’t even get you through a weekend out. It’s like the “stop drinking your coffee and you’ll be rich” meme…
Thoughts On Taking The Week Off The first week of July was pretty hectic for me. Unusually, this wasn’t due to work. In fact, the first couple of days were the first days in God-knows-how-long that I didn’t do any work. Because the business didn’t fall apart at the seams, I did what people have…
You Probably Know More Than You Think I’ve been suffering burn out recently. I also have an injury in both arms from repetitive use (i.e. typing too much.) This has tanked productivity. So here’s what I’ve been doing recently: Keeping typing to a minimum Using voice-to-text dictation software Keeping writing short and simple, only doing…
Are You Really Challenging Yourself? This is a bit of a Dear Diary post, but hopefully we’ll get some sort of learning lesson from it. So recently I decided to do a thirty day email challenge. If you’re not on the list, then you can still get the second half of the challenge, and you…