12/20/10 by james | Blog, Business Growth, Motivation | View Comments
Today when looking for advice on business opportunities on the internet, you find out that you get mostly the same advice.
- If you want to be an affiliate marketer, go to clickbank.
- If you want to develop a business online, write an eBook.
- If you want to sell a website, go to Flippa.
Stop Running with the Herd
And the list continues. What you get with this mentality is called “running with the herd“. In stock investing, “running with the herd” will only get you somewhere when you are one of the first to find out about that opportunity. After too many people have jumped on the opportunity, the stock becomes “over-bought” and you will not see as much returns from that investment opportunity as the the initial buyers.
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09/01/10 by james | Blog, Motivation | View Comments
If you are checking out my blog due to my guest post on The Smart Passive Income blog, you are welcome. I really had fun writing the post on the SPI blog and I hope you could get some value in it.
I want to share a post with you here which I title, Ignore the Real World (thanks to the book Rework by 37 signals). As an entrepreneur, the chances are you have great ideas bursting out of your brain but the moment you share it with someone, they reply you with, “That won’t work in the real world”
- In the real world, you are meant to go to work for someone else.
- In the real world, you are meant to work 40 hours a week doing what you are told and your creativity doesn’t matter
- In the real world, you move up the ladder when you help “The company” achieve their goals and all you get is a pat on the back. “Thank you, because of your work, the company has made a profit of $10 million this year”, while you earn $20,000 a year.
- In the real world, you will be crazy to do what you love and earn money doing it.
- In the real world, entrepreneurs are crazy risk-takers in a cut-throat environment and only the top 5% succeed so you had better stay with your safe and secure “job”.
Screw that.
If Bill Gates had listened to the people in the real world, he would have thrown away his dream of seeing a personal computer on every desk. We would have been stuck in a time where computers were the size of warehouses and we had to type our letters on those noisy, ink-based typewriters.
If Pat Flynn has listened to the people in the real world, he would have gone looking for another Architectural job after being laid off during a recession while his new family suffered the consequences.
The truth is, we are not cut out for the real world, the only reason we stick with the real world is that we feel it is a safe and secure place to be. My problem with the real world is that I am not able to do what I love, what keeps me up at night, stuff I can think about for hours without getting bored, stuff like developing solutions to real problems and seeing people get value out of it.
The great thing about the world we live in today is that the middle man has been left out of the equation. The only pre-requisite to being successful is how much work you are willing to put into your passion.
If you are really passionate about what you do, it won’t feel like work at all. You can pretty much do it all with a laptop and an internet connection. You can post a video to the web that millions have access to without paying money to a TV network.
There is no excuse for having to waste my life for “The Boss”, that is why I have decided to get on the journey to the other world, where I can create freely, live, love and matter.
In my research, I have discovered that there are 7 pillars you need to implement to start a successful business as an entreprenuer and if you sign up to my newsletter, I will send you 7 free reports that outline these pillars. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I appreciate it.
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08/04/10 by james | Blog, Motivation | View Comments
In the previous post, I described two online products I developed in the past year. I challenged the readers to guess which product was a total failure that generated no sales and which went on to sell 20 copies and generates about 2 sales per week.
If you haven’t read the previous post which describes these two products, you should do so here. Which of these two products failed to get one buyer? Now I am going to reveal the failed product and why it did fail.
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07/27/10 by james | Blog, Motivation | View Comments
In this post, I will give you two examples of products/services I developed and offered in the past year. One had zero customers and the other had 20 customers. I will also tell you what the difference between these two products are so you can know what kind of products sell and what kind of products bomb and become utter failures. Let’s see if you can guess which was the disaster product before you finish reading this post
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07/06/10 by james | Blog, Motivation | View Comments
While she was growing up, she was labelled a freak, an outcast that was not worth paying attention to. People said she was too eccentric and provocative so she started to tone her personality down.
Her passion was music and arts. While in high school, she played lead roles in high school musicals like Adelaide in Guys and Dolls.
At 17, she gained admission to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she improved her songwriting skills. In 2003, her second year at Tisch, she dropped out of high school to pursue her career in music. Her father could have scolded her and threatened her to go back to school but he decided against it. He agreed to pay her rent for one year making her promise that if she wasn’t successful, she would go back to Tisch.
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05/17/10 by james | Blog, Motivation | View Comments
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill – Warren Buffet.
When I read the biography of Warren Buffet, that quote really made an impact on me. There is so much wisdom in those two sentences. Wisdom that is applicable in finance and also applicable in business.
In this blog post, I will highlight two points you can pull from this and apply to your business today.
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05/11/10 by james | Blog, Motivation | View Comments
In a previous blog post, I explained how having too many ideas and can cripple your business. Ideas are easy to come by. As a serial entrepreneur, you are probably getting these ideas by reading and researching. Every time you read a book or blog post, you start getting flashes in your mind. “This will be the next big thing….” And then you are off to read the next book and you get more and more flashes. The problem with is this will not get you anywhere, you think you are learning but if you don’t take action and start working on making the ideas work for you, you will never make progress and all you end up with are piles of notes taken and with undone TODOs
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