I’m finding the transition from an employee or even self-employed mentality to a business building mentality to be a bit like dancing underwater. What is relatively simple to do as an employee or one man shop becomes a whole new ball game, with layers of complexity in a real business. A Real Business is all about Scale An example is setting up a simple...

My cousin is a real estate agent in Vancouver and he asked me to help him get more traffic to his real estate website. “Start blogging!” was my immediate reply. Then my little internal business systems conscience said, “who’s going to teach him to blog?” Yikes, good question; I’d better send him a book or I’ll be spending...

I just ran across an interesting thread on Digital Point forums that is essentially a nicely detailed description from a 21 year old university student describing how he built a website that currently is earning him about $800 a week. Even though he is using AdSense to monetize the site, there are some good take-aways in his post. Don’t get obsessed with...

Kind of a morbid topic for the holiday season, but since Darren brought it up [What Happens to Your Blogs if You Die], I’ve bumped it up on my “to blog about” list. My wife and I have been systematically working our way through a review of our entire financial situation lately and of course the topic of wills and living wills and estate planning...

Last week I went to a free seminar put on by the local Business Link. Quick tangent: in my city there is an excellent resource for entrepreneurs called the business link…probably deserves its own post, but you may want to be on the lookout for small business support from you municipal or state/provincial government. Micro business has a huge impact on the...

When I was in Grade 8, due to a weird quirk in my schedule, I ended up taking Phys Ed with a class of Grade 10 boys. Now, I had already, in elementary school, been moved ahead a grade. That combined with the time of year of my birthday and the net result was that I was playing hockey, soccer, football and everything else with boys 4 or 5 years older than me. Even in...