Hiring – Go with Trust or Experience?

Jan 18

I have to hire someone to do a bunch of installations of WordPress. This raises an interesting question as it seems to put me into a choice between hiring someone I know and trust or someone who is a pro and experienced WordPress person. A possible third option would be to outsource it via eLance or Scriptlance for a much lower cost. The problem is to do a full site...

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Pipeline Profits – Let’s Take Another Look

Jan 18

A couple weeks ago I took aim at Pipeline Profits. Just to clarify it wasn’t because I thought what they were selling didn’t have value, it was because the way they were selling it was designed to create false hopes and liberate people from their money; whether the system was right for them or not. I found out about the Pipeline Profits system from Andy...

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Building a Business is Like Dancing Underwater

Jan 16

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...

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Ways to Make Money – A Paperboy

Jan 09

Ways to Make Money – A Paperboy

Now this article is going to date me so for all you young Internet whipper-snappers who are reading this, hang on to your hats – here comes a history lesson. When I was about 11 I got my first job as a paperboy – I know that is a terribly politically incorrect term, but that’s what we were called back then. These days I’m sure the term is...

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Ways to Make Money – Lessons Learned From Jobs I’ve Done

Jan 04

Ways to Make Money – Lessons Learned From Jobs I’ve Done

I was reading over Yaro’s business timeline and it got me thinking about how I got to this point of my life. Yaro’s version, I printed it out, is about 17 pages long and I’m a lot older than he is, so I’m going to have to edit the story dramatically or Greenpeace will be after me for needlessly killing forests … and we wouldn’t...

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Best of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs

Jan 03

There have a been a couple Carnival of Entrepreneurs in the last 2 years, but Ben from Startup Spark has taken up the project and he’s doing it right this time. I submitted my Internet marketing cautionary tale, Pipeline Profits: Tempted? If so You Aren’t Ready to Be Rich! to this weeks edition and I was very pleasantly surprise by the quality of the...

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