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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008I recently requested a proposal from a developer for some work. I filled out an online form, then a few days later received an e-mail asking ME to call THEM, so I could discuss the details and learn the price.
Are you kidding me?
First rule of business, 90% of the time, it’s not the best person who wins, it’s the one who calls back. If you want me to give you MY money, trust you with MY project or
allocate MY time, guess what…
YOU need to call ME. Not the other way around.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008I am a bit of a new junkie, especially when it comes to small-business. Problem is, my schedule is also a bit nutty these days, so I don’t have a ton of time to scour the web (or even my 100+ feeds) to find the best of the best every day.
Which I why I was so psyched when my buddy Shane from Shane & Peter asked me to be one of the launch-editors for a white-hot new small-business hub called Sproutwire.
At Sproutwire, you’ll be able to find the best, most interesting, already vetted small business article summaries and links from around the internet in one place every day.
Sometimes failure just sucks…or does it?
Monday, February 11th, 2008
For most of our lives, we’ve been told to look at failure as just another opportunity for learning, an event that gets you one step closer to success. I’ve believed and shared this opinion many times.
Because the alternative is a tough pill to swallow.
But, serial entrepreneur, speaker and author, Barry Moltz offers another possibility in his new book, Bounce: Failure, Resiliency and Confidence To Achieve Your Next Great Success. When it comes to business and entrepreneurship, says Barry…
Sometimes failure just sucks, there’s nothing to learn…
Interview on “shotgun” entrepreneurship with Jarkko Laine
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
One of the questions I am often asked is…
“How do you keep so many different professional ventures and adventures moving forward at the same time?”
In my recent interview with Jarkko Laine, posted today on Jarkko’s blog, I shared my thoughts on being not so much a serial, but a shotgun (all at once) entrepreneur. Rereading this interview myself was actually helpful to my own understanding of my process.
Sometimes you need to step back to get a better look inside!
And, it made me want to share more. So, stay tuned for an upcoming in-depth look at balancing simultaneous entrepreneurial ventures with an already very busy life.
Building business and blogs with extreme value
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Every once in a while, you stumble upon a story or an experience that brings you back to Earth.
Something that reminds you to ask if you’re spending enough time creating extreme value…instead of extreme image.
Your legacy starts at home
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
So, I’m reading People Magazine and there’s a story about how Sean Penn and Robin Wright are getting divorced.
Sources (gotta love them sources, eh) said things really started to fall apart when Sean began to spend more and more time away from home, involved in humanitarian and political causes.
Now, I don’t know Sean or Robin and I am sure there were many layers to the devolution of their marriage. But, it drew me back, very quickly to…
The dark side of the desire to save the world.
How my killer idea ended up on someone else’s infomercial…again!
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Did you ever come up with a great idea only to shelve it and find out, six-months later, somebody else came out with the same damn thing and made a ton of money?
The Name Killer: how the wrong name took down a $2-million business in 2-weeks
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
It’s got to be the biggest fear of every new entrepreneur.
You pour a ton of money into a new venture, devote relentless hours to get it going. It’s perfect in every way. But, within hours of launching, you realize something is wrong. Not leaky faucet wrong. Not temporary signage wrong…but head-on crash, fatally wrong.
How can something so apparent have been so hidden?
How to get featured in magazines and newspapers with no connections…and turn it into mega-bucks
Monday, January 14th, 2008
My first-appearance in The New York Times freaked me out…
In November 2001, I launched a yoga studio in the heart of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. It was a strange, moody time in the city, just 6-weeks after the collapse of the twin-towers. But, for yoga studios, or pretty much anyone else in the healing profession, the demand was huge.
This led to an odd scenario…
Freestyle Fridays: Lifehack radio interview, CareerRenegade.com and lifestyle-evolution updates
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Wow, this week, I have so much juicy stuff to share, including a revealing radio interview, the opportunity to become a career renegade and an intereting discovering about exercising with the mice at 5:30 in the morning…
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