Why Online Solopreneurs Do Worse Than Brick-and-Mortar Business Owners
I’ve put brick-and-mortar businesses online and gotten them leads that they wouldn’t otherwise get. But online solopreneurs fail me right and left. The reason why online solopreneurs do worse than traditional business owners may not be obvious. But I’ll reveal it to you here. A client of mine owns a power washer business, another owned […]
Want to Make $50K per Month Investing $0?
I see this every single day, people living paycheck to paycheck, feeling stuck, miserable, afraid of their financial situation. But they’re not willing to invest a few thousand dollars on themselves. Practical education. Applied skills. This is what you need to create a six or seven-figure income no less than you’ve needed them to create […]
Do You Have to Live Near Where You Work and Make Your Money?
If you’re an office professional who’d rather live other than near where you have to work, but you find that your way of earning your living inhibits your ability to move wherever you may be treated your best, then you have two options: 1️⃣ You can stay put and remain unhappy, else… 2️⃣ You can […]
Facebook Personal Profile Goes Professional. Should You?
To use or not to use your personal Facebook profile for business? Recently someone asked in a business group I participate in this question as it relates to Facebook’s policy that discourages the use of personal profiles as a business tool. Here was my response and a couple of additional tips. 𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 […]
All Social Networks Aren’t Healthy For You Or Your Business
“I see it all perfectly. There are two possible situations — you can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or don’t do it — in the end, you will regret both.” ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life… The following insight may seem insignificant until […]
Starting Your Own Business Unemployed: Does It Pay Off?
You’ve seen it before: “Make hundreds of dollars in a few days! Thousands in a month at your own pace, comfortably from you our own home!” Those in desperate straits find the claim irresistible. For the right price, they’re hooked, because it sounds like a goodwill prophecy. If you haven’t had work for 9 months […]
Why A Business Plan Is NOT What’s Fundamental To Starting Your Business
Let’s say you want to have income follow you. Let’s say you want it to follow you abroad. A fiery, inexperienced solopreneur determined to move overseas would aim to start a business of some kind to work from anywhere. The focus would be to make money transfers easy from wherever they could be procured. All […]
What One Thing Shouldn’t You Do When Moving Abroad?
Expats in the know will tell you this was their stupidest mistake. It was to have sought first to buy rather than rent a place. Why was this a mistake? The need for security in your home country may seem fulfilled by owning a house or a condo. But this manifestation of security doesn’t instantly […]
Not Moving Abroad Because You Need More Info?
How much information is enough to convince you to move abroad? Expats who have moved say they’ve generally had more than enough information long before making the move, and regret not having acted on it sooner. Why is this so? Part of it is a lack of definition on what really will move your needle. […]
How to Build Your Green Business Out of Roaches With Sheer Elbow Grease
Once upon a time I had a client from Staten Island. His dream was to own a renewable energy business to save the planet and all life on it. But a business like that proved difficult to win, especially since he wanted it home-based. I told my client that I’d known of a man who […]
Neighbors Laughed At Him Until This Local Market Business Secret Made Him Rich
Why not make a fortune as a nobody? Jim Varney did it until he couldn’t keep from becoming famous. He died a multimillionaire. How? He focused on local needs. So very often today we read of one entrepreneur after another trying to make it big universally online or by franchising nationwide or by becoming famous […]
Why Money Starting A Business Ain’t Cheap
Money for starting a business is available for the entrepreneur who can prove that the money will be well spent. This requirement eliminates having to look for grants for starting a business since, by definition, a grant is a gift and it matters not to the grantor how you spend the money as far as […]
How College Schooling Stupefies Students Souls for Business
A college degree is highly overrated today. Students are graduating without any sense of responsibility or proportion about the realities of life, especially business life. One may even question their intelligence. A while back a college student by the name of Jeff reached out to tell me how he was starting a business while chillin’ […]
Why Unequally Yoked Clients Do Not Come First
Do you know how you can grab a dog’s tail, cause the animal to spin, then grab the dog’s tail again, cause the dog to spin in the opposite direction with no lesson learned by the foolish animal? Well, I just went through a similar experience with one of my clients. It was so jarring […]
Quick Money to Survive by Starting a New Business
Starting a new business for the sake of making quick money to survive from one day to the next is nothing new. Street walkers do it all the time. So do drug dealers. But this isn’t work. It’s bondage to a life of peril and misery. This kind of quick money is no way to […]