Twice in the last two days, I have been the constraint on the critical path to a project's success. On the surface, that makes me sound all sexy and important. The reality is that I lost the freedom to manage my time. The double-headed monster of procrastination and setting priorities is the root … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
My Why
"Do you love your job? Why?" That's what my friend Jill Felska threw out there as a Facebook status the other day. I didn't even have to think about my answer it was almost as if my fingers typed "Because it's not a job, it's my life" out of reflex. This caused Jill to ask me a few followup … [Read more...]
Stop giving content away for free
There are a whole lot of people writing for free these days. My question is why? Why would you give away your time? Yes, I believe there are plenty of situations that warrant donating your time to a cause. Open source software projects like WordPress are just one such example. Even contributing blog … [Read more...]
Business grown with content marketing
Have you ever wondered why there has been an explosion in the number of blogs over the last five or six years? Content marketing, that's why. Blogging, whether by intention or accident, is a powerful form of content marketing. Here's what content marketing looks like to me: Share your intellectual … [Read more...]
Where do blog ideas come from?
I'm frequently asked where all the ideas come from to write five days a week. What follows is a sampling of where the inspiration and ideas come from. Be controversial; preferably not with every post but sometimes. I wrote "Social Media Favors Chicks Over Dicks" for a couple of reasons. First, I … [Read more...]
Use affiliate links, but please use them honestly
Yesterday I shared "Affiliate Marketing: I’m done being bashful about it" which is my half of "She Said, He Said." Today, a guest post from Shelby Sapusek sharing her take affiliate marketing and link like those I used in yesterday's post. If you do any online reading at all, you know that … [Read more...]
Affiliate Marketing: I'm done being bashful about it
This post and tomorrow's "Use affiliate links, but please use them honestly" by Shelby Sapusek are part of our ongoing "She said, He said" series. Hello, my name is Jim and I'm an affiliate marketer. There, step one is out of the way. Eleven more to go. What is affiliate marketing? First, in case … [Read more...]
Effective team building at 47 years and counting
Three hundred and sixty-five days ago, I published "Unplugged on my Birthday." Like much of my writing that is a year old, it's almost painful to go back and read it. There are two reasons for that. First, I believe the writing on this blog has improved over the last year. More importantly, however, … [Read more...]
The value of systemizing business processes
For a while now, I've been working with a business process just begging to be systemized. The problem is systemizing a business process requires two things many small businesses are short on: owner/manager analysis time and resources (people or equipment) to implement the system. What I noticed … [Read more...]
10 reasons why you should start a business instead of be an employee
It's fun day Monday, so here we go with 10 reasons to start a business! 1. Because you love working half-days. And by half-days, I mean you get to pick which 12 hours to work each day. 2. You love that the buck stops with you. Of course, you also don't love that often times you have no bucks in … [Read more...]
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