If you want to start a business model and have several ideas in mind, it’s often hard to narrow down on a particular market you want to sell to. You might have several different competing ideas and aren’t sure which one to focus on. You might not be sure which part of a market you …
My Gmail Productivity Hacks: Getting to Inbox Zero, Every Time.
One of the things that I’ve discovered about myself is that I do email very differently than most people. While I get anywhere from 75-150 new non-spam messages every day, my inbox regularly stays at a status of “inbox zero” (having no emails in my inbox). There are a few strategies that I make use …
Online Business for Sale: WP Mechanic
I started a relatively-small side business last fall called WP Mechanic that has had some good initial traction. The business offers performance optimization services to individuals with WordPress websites and I think it has some good potential for growth. Unfortunately, I’m no longer the right person to grow this business, so I’m offering it up …
Investing in Bitcoin Mining Hardware: My Experience
Saying I Quit: Spring Cleaning in Business and in Life
My 2013 Reading List
Here’s a list of books that I read in 2013. Here are a few specific recommendations: My Favorite Business Book of the Year: The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson My Favorite Fiction Series of the Year: The “Silo Series” by Hugh Howey My Favorite Non-Fiction Book of the Year: Inferno by Max Hastings My Favorite …
How to Level Up in Online Business
If you were to do a search for the keyword “make money online”, you would get back thousands of websites that would teach you to build start-from-nothing businesses, such as long-tail AdSense websites, strategies to generate revenue with affiliate marketing and blueprints to make money with Facebook or Twitter. Many people in online business get …
Eight Strategies for Email Marketing Success
My company, American Consumer News, LLC, sends out about two million emails per month. The vast majority of these are the daily edition of our investment newsletter, ARN Daily. We do send out our fair share of marketing messages too, so I’ve had a lot of opportunities to do try things out to see what generally …
Don’t Build an Ecosystem-Based Business
In the last five years, there has been a major trend to build businesses on top of the platforms offered by major web companies, such as eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Apple (iTunes) and Google (YouTube, Search). Eight years ago, the big thing was to build an eBay business. Four years ago, the big thing to do …
Podcasts I’m Listening To
Like many entrepreneurs, I am a voracious consumer of content. I read a lot of non-fiction books and listen to dozens of podcasts each week (35 to be exact). Someone asked me the other day what podcasts I listen to, so I went through my feed and have compiled the most recent list below: Business and …