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…
On Scaling And ROI If you’re reading this then you’re probably involved in online business. One thing that gets online business people excited and leads them astray in equal measure is the idea of scaling. I saw a guy on Twitter responding to James Holt about dropshipping. James runs a course on dropshipping, and recommends…
Hi there, I should really stop browsing the internet for topic ideas. I checked out Reddit’s entrepreneur section today, and my eyes immediately zoomed in on this thread title: Now, add those two things together and you think, “this has to be an obvious troll,” because it’s like two things that alone would trigger me…
Pricing Yourself Out Of Work I had a question a while back from a freelance writer who was concerned that he was pricing himself out of work. If you are a freelance writer, then in most cases you will start with bottom of the barrel work where you are paid pennies per word. If you…
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…
Niche Site Question: Social Media And Backlinks This’ll be a quick one. I got a reader question from Adam H, who asks what to do about your niche site so far as linking and promoting is concerned. Good question. The answer: Different people do different things. Some people go heavy on promoting their niche site….
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…
The Mouse Utopia Experiments What happens when you take a population and give them everything they need to survive? What happens when you take away all the natural constraints of the Universe and allow a population to do whatever they want without limitation? Does that population take their environment and use it to create something…