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I’ve been in charge of my long desired “real” business for the grand total of about 7 days and I thought that it would be fun to be journaling my experience of trying to run and grow this beast. Currently, I have 5 contract “employees” and enough work for about 5 other positions that I am solely responsible for. This leaves me about...

Over on his site Sean Wise is asking for questions on the following topics: if you have a question about raising capital, venture capital, entrepreneurship, etc. Now, Sean has coached entrepreneurs through and been involved in VC deals approaching $1b of capital raised. I met Sean here in Edmonton a week ago and it was very clear that he knows his stuff inside out....

A couple days ago I had the privilege of being featured on Liz Strauss’ Successful-Blog BAD Bloggers series. Liz had tracked me down via MyBlogLog [which, in a brilliant right turn of a business model, has re-invented itself into a pretty decent networking and social tagging site] and emailed me to tell me why, if I was serious about my Internet business, I...

A couple weeks ago I received an email from a woman named Mary representing a web site called 1st 4 Articles. She had found one of my niche affiliate sites and was offering to write an article for my site. My first thought was, “what’s the catch?” Of course there was a catch, three links must stay in the article. These days I don’t put a ton...

As my newsletter readers will know, I recently began to offer an online version. All I did was put a very basic plain page up and linked to it as an alternative to reading the text email [it also allowed me to do better links]. Of course being the savvy Internet guy that I am, I also went and grabbed a stats project and stuck it on the template for the newsletter,...