Recalibration Sometimes, you overwhelm yourself, get stuck in a rut or otherwise need to change your game for the sake of your health, wealth or general quality of life. You need to recalibrate. Recently, a ton of people have been putting out good content. They’ve been experimenting, pushing forward and doing new stuff. Stuff that…
You Have To Earn Complexity Here’s a weird thing that practically everybody in business does at some point. Most people do this in their personal lives too. They fail because they make things too complex. An example in the personal sphere: people who know all about micronutrients and how quickly you should take protein in…
Stop Reading Stupid Arguments Online People debate all the time about the whole online business thing. It doesn’t matter if it is affiliate marketing, copywriting, building websites, running an email list… people will say: It’s all a scam You can’t make £X doing that! How does that even work? What about starting a real business?…
Do Copywriters Need Creativity? Here’s what I think about creativity as a word used to describe creative professionals. It’s a terrible word. It’s the sort of word an uncreative person would use because they thought it was good to put on their CV. Creative means nothing. And don’t get me wrong… I’ve used creativity in…
Mid-Year Project Audit If you are of the crazy scientist variety when it comes to entrepreneurship, then you definitely need to audit your ideas, projects and pipelines for the future every so often. I tend to do this every half year, with special attention paid at the end of the year because it’s easy to…
Risk, Success, Etc. Part 100 99% of businesses fail. Or, whatever the statistic is right now when we next need to make up the statistic. My question about business failure is this; who cares? I am grouchy because after two weeks my hands still hurt when I try to type. I need to see a…
The Power Of Themes Let’s take a detour from the business type posts and rants. Here’s something that’ll take me about five minutes to write and you a long time to implement into stuff. When it comes to products, content, sales, etc. you need to think about stuff that decreases your need for mental output…
Four Random Lessons From Burnout This is a total “Dear Diary” entry designed for self-accountability. If you can take something from it, then great. If you want to skip this one, check out the archives for more online business posts. So recently I’ve been suffering burnout and I have injured hands. Regular readers might be…
The Scope Of A Project Let’s talk about project scope, creep and development. IF you have a large project, then it’s inevitable that your goals and objectives for the project will change over time. For instance, if you’re into fitness, you’ll probably move from “looking good is the primary objective” to “staying healthy as I…
How To Get Paid What You’re Worth In A Nutshell I saw a forum thread the other day. A programmer was saying that he was sick of being underpaid: He considered himself a guy who is worth ten times the amount he was getting paid, and yet had no luck when asking for a pay…