I spent several years in the military and fell in love with the use of acronyms. My favorite during my military years was The 5 P’s (prior proper planning prevents poor performance). If you are involved with social media, I am now going to give you an operator precedence – NESTOL. No, it does not spell a word, but you can remember it very clearly by stating the following: Never Express Stale Tiresome Opinions Liberally. Now, that is a way to remember this acronym, but what the letters actually stand for are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

At moments like this, it feels like I have it all.  I am building a successful business from home doing what I love, using my experience and creativity to offer help to others, and I get to do that with my dog napping under my chair and my husband sitting beside me.  Of course, he nudges his way into my train of thought every few minutes to show off the new feature he just unlocked on his video game, and the dog will be Read the rest of this entry »

Where Can I Find
Passive Income Opportunities?

Affiliate Marketing: The Sweet Sound of Passive Income

In the early days of 1967, a rather successful young man from Liverpool was in London pondering a problem. He’d recently written a song mostly based on some news stories he’d read in the Daily Mail but he knew the piece lacked a certain something in the middle. Since his attempts to provide that something had been in vain, he decided to ask advice from an old friend who also wrote songs. Read the rest of this entry »

I cannot begin to tell you how often I am asked about writing a business plan. It’s true, you do need one. But it is not what you think and you can get wrapped up in writing a plan so much that you forget to build a business. In fact, my general response to the notion of writing a business plan is that one should write an outline and then focus on building a business.

First Contact
Think in terms of military tactics. I like this idea first because I am a former military operator who specialized in guerilla warfare training. Now, before you go to sleep, remember something – every great business strategy employed since the industrial revolution can be traced to military strategy. There are tomes of work on military strategy which is adapted to warfare, most notably The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1996, the Down Jones Industrial Average celebrated its 100th birthday. Of the original companies listed in 1896, only General Electric had survived to take part in the celebration. Fourteen companies mentioned in the Tom Peters book, “In Search of Excellence” had lost their luster within 4 years of the book’s publishing. Jean Jacques Schreiber, in his bestselling book , American Challenge, told his countrymen “Swallow your pride, imitate America or accept her dominance forever.” Then by 1975, it was Japan, Inc. Everyone wanted to jump on the band wagon of the Kaizen philosophy. The point is that the game is forever changing. Read the rest of this entry »

I have always loved Billy Joel’s music starting with the album The Stranger. Nearly every song in the Billy Joel catalogue is great, but I absolutely hated the song “Tell Her About It”. I thought it sounded like a show tune “diddy” that no self respecting rock & roll radio station would ever play. However, as much as I hated the song itself, there is some real truth to the lyrics, which were written during Joel’s marriage to Christie Brinkley. And there is no truer wisdom when it comes to business. Read the rest of this entry »

Interview With John McLeod, Card Game Enthusiast And Internet Business Expert

We recently caught up with a friend of ours to see how he was doing with his hobby/website on card games (www.pagat.com). What he shared with us was quite an elaborate and encouraging story that we wanted to take the time to share with you. His inspiring tale reinforces what we’ve been saying on our site for quite some time – you can turn your hobby or interest into an internet business. This is John’s story:

John decided one day that he needed a place to put all this information so it was available to everyone, and he didn’t have to keep cluttering up his spare room with stuff. The year was 1995, and the internet was still in a fledgling, but John saw the potential, and began loading all of his playing card information onto web pages, and then assembled those pages into a website. Read the rest of this entry »