Aug 31, 2016

Last week's episode was about things I did "right" in my business, which made it grow. I'm saying the word "right" with air quotes, because keep in mind that what works for one person's business might not work for another. Today I want to look at the flip side - things that failed or didn't work out like I'd hoped. I'll...

Aug 24, 2016

In your first few years of business, you’re in a phase where you’re trying really hard to figure things out – everything from your product (or service) to your messaging, your price point, how exactly you’re gonna get leads and turn them into customers, your backend systems, even your business model...

Aug 17, 2016

Almost every online business owner, at some point, has to tame the e-mail monster. The more our businesses grow, the more e-mails we have to deal with – and processing e-mail can turn into a mentally-draining time suck if you’re not careful.

I’ve got about 80,000 newsletter subscribers, and needless to say I get a...

Aug 10, 2016

I used to look down on "mindset" stuff. In my voracious consumption of entrepreneurial blogs and podcasts, I'd always want TACTICS, really concrete tactics and strategies, and whenever I saw a post about mindset, I'd dismiss it. I'd assume it was a superficial "positivity" message, or something generic like "think...

Aug 3, 2016