Why should you embrace the use of the Internet for your business? It’s easy in times of economic crisis to start chopping marketing budgets, however we believe the web is a solution to survive economic hard times, not a budget item to cut. Simply put, the web is more important now than at any other time. Here are some reasons why: The web is cost effective. A typical website costs roughly the same as a [...]

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Here’s a list I picked up from Yanik Silver’s Sales Page for his Maverick Business Insider I think this is a useful set of rules and so I wanted to share them. Enjoy It’s got to be a BIG idea that you, your team and your customers can “get” in seconds. Strive to create 10x — 100x in value for any price you charge. Your rewards are always proportionate to the value you provide. You [...]

The 4-Hour WorkWeek by Timothy Ferriss is an inspiring book. His basic premise is that everyone should design their own life and their own lifestyle. Figure that out, and then build a plan to achieve it now, rather than at retirement. There are a number of interesting points, from taking mini-retirements every year (or few months), to using outsourcing to free up your time, to making less money from a business if it means giving [...]

Well, this has been an interesting and thoughtful book. It is somewhat academic, yet filled with little inspirations for business and self-employed. So, what is it. It’s more or less a book form of an essay, seeking to show that the best promise for the future for the United States (and the world for that matter) is “entrepreneurial capitalism”. Which is a fancy way of saying encouraging entrepreneurs, both nationally, and inside large corporations. How [...]

Another excellent business book. I would highly recommend this to anyone running a company, a business, or planning on moving up the corporate ladder. If you want to know what to learn, and how to be, to be a top executive and to make your company successful, this is the place to start. In short, it’s about your people skills and your own personal skills and vision and how to maximize them.

Here’s what I learned from the book. I’m really most interested in Stage One, getting started or infancy. There is lot’s more in the book and I’d recommend reading it. You can pick it up from Amazon if you are interested.

I’ve been blogging off and on (off mostly) for a while now. I’ve also taken a couple of courses from Simpleology and been fairly impressed. So now that they are offering a course on blogging, I wanted to mention it, and check it out for myself. Blogging, and podcasting will be a cornerstone of my new marketing campaign along with teleseminars. Together I want to create a resource for Squirrel POS users to help them [...]

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