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 »

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

John McLeod, the owner of www.pagat.com

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 »

Throughout my entire adult career, I listened to many of my co-workers express that they could never work with their wives. I always thought that either that person could not separate their personal and professional life, or they simply did not understand business. Perhaps it was both. In any case, I worked with my wife at my side for 20 years and I can tell that if you can treat your wife like any other business partner, you will never find a more loyal partner.

YOUR WIFE AS A LIFE PARTNER AND AS A BUSINESS PARTNER
Your wife is your greatest advocate and there is nobody, not even your mother, that wants you to succeed more than your wife does. Read the rest of this entry »

Your passion is extraordinary.
How you spend your time should be, too!

Do you want more time, or do you want more money? You see, the problem with time and money is that if you want more of one, you must give up more of the other. This is why the best balance between the two is simply having a job. Unfortunately, when you have a job, your compensation is never based on excellence (unless it is heavily incentivized, i.e. sales, trading, etc.). Yes, you read that correctly. Miffed yet? If so, you better stop reading, because you are going to get upset if you go on. Read the rest of this entry »

I have said it before and I will say it again.  The seemingly most innocuous, trivial knowledge you hold is valuable to someone.  And now a new company has created an online platform where you can share it with others.  Skillshare is a new community marketplace where you can learn anything from anyone.  The flipside of this is that you can also teach anything to anyone and that means that somebody somewhere wants to know that little tidbit of knowledge that you may find absolutely useless.  This may be the easiest way to start a business since, uh…business. Read the rest of this entry »