Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin There are very few people in the world that wouldn’t like to be …
Below, you will find an unedited chapter from my new book about wealth building, investing and personal finance, The Ten Year Turnaround. To get your copy of the book, visit www.tenyearturnaround.com It was August of 2004. I would be starting my first year of college in a few short weeks. My new school, Dakota State University, …
Wealthy people like me have gotten a bad rap lately. Politicians and the media will tell you that we are taking advantage of the system, that we are enriching ourselves off the backs of underpaid employees and that we aren’t paying our fair share of taxes. The release of the Panama Papers, a leaked set …
I got “the author’s itch” again early this year. While it had only been a few months since Email Marketing Demystified came out, I knew that I wanted to write another book. I have something to communicate the world and would be disappointed in myself if I didn’t publish my third book this year. Since …
There is a computer repair business in the city of Sioux Falls called Craig Computer Service that is run by my good friend Craig Jurczewsky. I have been helping Craig with some of his marketing efforts off and on for the last six months. We worked on a wide variety of marketing strategies in order …
“What kind of products do you sell on Amazon?” asked one conference attendee to another at a lunch I attended while at Freedom Fastlane Live. Before the other attendee could answer, someone else chimed in and said “You don’t ask that question to another Amazon seller. Do your own market research.” There’s an unspoken rule that …
MarketBeat recently crossed the 300,000 subscriber mark. We now send 24 newsletters per month and five-to-ten marketing emails per month to more than 300,000 people at a time. We also have a secondary list of 180,000 subscribers that receive a weekly newsletter. In total, we send out more than 13 million emails each and every …
I used to believe that the best way to be an online entrepreneur was to have a portfolio of 5-7 different online businesses. Each business would be responsible for a portion of your income and there would be some level of protection if any one of those businesses took a nose dive. This is the …
When I finally got around to quitting my day job two years ago, my business was already generating significantly more revenue than what I was making at my day job. Frankly, I waited too long to quit my day job. I recently had lunch with an entrepreneur that has an e-commerce business who is currently …
Why is it that some people peak and can’t get past a certain level of success when others continue to grow and reach new highs? You might hit a certain level of income, build an audience of a certain size or attain a certain job title. When you try to move up to the next …