Shawn Hessinger has recently started a new blog entitled, bootstrapme.com – how to bootstrap your business to fame and fortune. It’s part of the creative weblogging network and definitely worth reading. The blog is relatively new, but Shawn recently published 3 posts which include 45 bootstrapping ideas culled from Inc.com’s website content. Part 1 | […]
Archives for July 2006
Are Blog/Feed Directories REALLY Useful?
When IGotNewsForYou’s blog launched in January, 2006 I went ahead and looked for every blog and feed directory I could find. I submitted it to a ton of them, using MasterNewMedia’s list, but there’s so many it became difficult to track where the blog got listed, and if any updates ever had to be done […]
Make More Money. Give Me a Reason to Stick Around.
It’s simple: The longer I stick around (be it a store, mall, website, etc.) the better chance I’ll spend money. Find a way to keep me around, draw my attention in, and I’ll probably, eventually spend money. Here’s a good example — I’m on vacation at the moment in Vancouver with my wife and son […]
7 Words You Should Never Say as an Entrepreneur
None of these are curse words because let’s face it, in a moment of crisis you may curse, by all means (so long as you’re not cursing at clients!) The idea behind this was inspired by George Carlin though; there’s no harm with mixing humor and business! Here are 7 words you should never say […]
Listen to Your iPod While Sitting on the Toilet.
One of the things I’d like to do with IGotNewsForYou is add many more tech-related stories. I think there would be a certain appeal to having technology, blogging and social media-related stories in the mock news pages. So, about a month ago I started trying to write tech stories and came up with one related […]
Being an Entrepreneur is like Dating: Put Yourself Out There!
Inspired by Rick Spence’s call for startup advice/anecdotes I sent him an email with this thought, “put yourself out there.” (There was a bit more to it, otherwise I would expect Rick to hit delete rather quickly.) The gist of the idea is that entrepreneurs can’t be afraid of reaching out to people; even people […]
Companies Need to Come Clean When There’s a Problem
As they say in A.A. – “admitting you have a problem is the first step.” It should be the first step of a problem situation for any business, but of course it’s not. No one wants to admit they screwed up, that it was their fault. Maybe it’s human nature. Maybe it’s corporate culture. Maybe […]
Powering Through A Crisis: Stick With Simple Tasks
Quick, your e-commerce website just crashed and you’re losing customers by the second. (Note: this is just an example to illustrate a point, feel free to replace this crisis with any other you might experience!) What do you do? Panic. Panic? That doesn’t sound like great advice… Well, it’s not. But you’re human, so you’ll […]
Get Organized and More Productive! No More Bloated To-Do Lists.
A couple of days ago I wrote a post about being more prepared and how you can accomplish that. The goal wasn’t to say, “be prepared for anything and everything,” because that’s just a big fat lie. But, there are ways of being more prepared than not. First, we embraced failure and learned from it. […]
Embrace Failure. Learn From It And You Will Succeed.
Yesterday I wrote that you can be more prepared in business and life if you learn from your mistakes and failures. Many more successful people than myself will also tell you, “Failure is good. Embrace it and learn from it. Then you’ll succeed.” First let’s try and accept two facts: Failure is inevitable. Even the […]