Starting a business can be a very lonely affair. This is especially the case if you’re a single founder and aren’t working with a team to develop your product or service. When I got into business in 2006, there wasn’t much of an online community for solo-entrepreneurs and lifestyle business owners. During the last half-decade, …
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How I Developed a Paid Email Newsletter to Diversify My Business’s Income
I’ve been running an information marketing company for the last four and a half years, but it wasn’t until three months ago that I started developing an email newsletter for readers of any of my websites. I had always gotten plenty of web traffic from other sources, was doing fine revenue wise and didn’t see …
Two New Church Websites: Trinity Lutheran and West Center Baptist
I’ve had the opportunity to work with Trinity Lutheran Church and West Center Baptist Church, both of Madison, SD, develop new web presences during the last several months.: Trinity Lutheran Church is an ELCA congregation. Their new website launched today. I had originally created them a website while I worked for Logic Lizard, a company …
January Reading – Do More Faster, The Externally Focused Church, Never Buy Another Stock Again, The E-Myth Revisited and Sex Begins in the Kitchen
Thomas Stanley, author of the Millionaire Next Door, tells us that the average millionaire reads one non-fiction book per month. Last year, I had the opportunity to read 22 non-fiction books and the breaks that the month of January offers from my normal routine has allowed me the opportunity to do some additional reading this …
Seminary – 20% and Loading
Most of my fellow students at Sioux Falls Seminary are there to get a Masters of Divinity degree so that they have the academic qualifications to become a pastor. There are also a few that are there to get counseling degrees, but not me. Eighteen months ago I was invited to take an informal class …
Using SendGrid in ASP.NET
I recently launched a daily email newsletter on my company’s investing website, American Banking & Market News. The newsletter provides daily updates about ratings changes made by stock analysts. Initially, I planned on using my server’s local SMTP server to send out the messages, but realized that after getting more than 50 sign-ups the first …
How to Make Your Email Less Annoying in 8 Easy Steps
Earlier in the year, I realized that I spent far too much time checking my email and clearing out my inboxes each day. At the time, I had four active email accounts that I used and none of them worked terribly well with the devices that I wanted to check email on (other than my …
Is Podcasting the New Radio Ministry for Churches?
Many medium and large-sized church congregations (300+ members) have used the mediums of radio and television as a form of outreach ministry during the last half-century. By broadcasting the worship music and message of a Sunday morning service to the outside community, there’s the possibility that God will reach someone that might not ordinarily walk …
Working with Committees: How to Build a Successful Website
Imagine that you and your ten closest friends are put into an industrial kitchen and told to make food item that contains everyone’s favorite ingredients. If you all like exactly the same types of food, you might wind up with something that’s not half-bad. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case. You would more likely end …
Building Church Websites: My Experience with Central Baptist Church
I’ve recently gone through the process of building out a new website for my home church, Central Baptist Church of Sioux Falls am now in the process of building new websites for my friends at West Center Baptist and Trinity Lutheran Church of Madison, SD. As I go through the design and development process with …