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How Much Can You Achieve By Yourself?
In recent months I've interviewed quite a few successful self-starter internet marketers. People like Farnoosh Brock, Brian Moran, Chris Guillebeau, and Adam Baker, all tell stories from the first few years of their online business where they were doing everything by...
Inevitability Thinking: Why Your Results Are What You Think They Are
Many years ago I was working very hard to achieve certain goals in an area of my life that I had never come close to realizing the kind of outcomes I desired. Because these goals were so foreign to me I had a lot of self doubt, which only increased as I continued to...
How I Created Our Pitch Deck For Investors And Tales From Our First Startup Presentations
As you may know I've turned most of my business attention towards a startup called CrankyAds in the past. Our team has been busy with the beta version of our software, ironing out bugs and figuring out what are the most important features to work on. This process of...
What Is Social Proof And Why Your Business Can Live Or Die By It
When everyone looks up at the sky, do you do the same? If no one is buying a certain flavour of ice cream, do you stay clear of it too? If your friends all wear a certain brand of clothing do you desire to do the same, or the opposite? The force that influences you...
What Is The REAL Reason People Do NOT Succeed Online?
I was reading an article by David Risley, where he was taking a hard-line look at what he believes are some fundamental flaws regarding the make money online niche. The main question at the heart of David's article was why people do not actually succeed at making...
The Blog Profits Blueprint Audio Version
I realize you probably already have my Blog Profits Blueprint since it has been available for over five years now and has been downloaded by thousands of people.
However I have never submitted the audio version to my podcast, so I’m posting it here now to get the download into iTunes and on my podcasts page.
I Just Don’t Feel Like Working Today
Many years ago I lived in a share house in the inner city suburb of West End in Brisbane, Australia. Although I prefer to live alone, I appreciated living in a share house with other people because it gave me some kind of socialization during a period of my life when...
Can You Apply The Minimum Viable Product Principle To Information Products?
I recently listened to the audiobook version of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. My motivation for "reading" it is to help with the development of CrankyAds, my software startup. Lean startup principles are particularly good for a software company because of the...
How To Value Your Startup Company When Looking For Investment
This was a post I wrote about regarding the process of looking for funding for CrankyAds. This has been a completely new experience for me, which is fantastic, I'm enjoying the challenge and the process of learning how another aspect of entrepreneurship works. I've...
My Tech Startup Journey: Learning How To Fund A New Software Company
Note: This was a post I wrote about a company I started, CrankyAds. This blog has always been a sounding board for my own use as an entrepreneur. From the day I started blogging I wrote about what I was up to with whatever business I was focused on at the time....