Most everyone is looking for success in business, and life in general. In my quest for success, I love listening to entrepreneurial podcasts. Business strategies, funnels, new technologies – they are all fascinating to me. There are so many helpful resources out there, and an
I spend a lot of time at Starbucks. Not just because I enjoy over spending on mediocre beverages, but also because it’s the place I find most functional for writing. In fact, guess where I’m writing these words right now? Go ahead I’ll wait… 🙂
“Surviving the messy middle” Half of new small businesses fail sometime during their first 5 years. Some statisticians put the number a little higher, and some maybe lower, but 50% seems to be a pretty common result. If a business survives its first 5 years,
Give yourself the gift of done. I love this guy! That’s the realization I came to before finishing even the first chapter of “Finish” – the latest book by Jon Acuff. Maybe I should have read his earlier book “Start” first, but hey, I’ve always
Cease and desist. Those can be pretty scary words. To be honest, I’ve seen them a few times during my solopreneur journey. If you receive a letter with these words, it’s typically from an attorney who has been hired to protect the intellectual property of
How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win I recently finished “Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. These guys are highly decorated retired Navy SEAL officers who led multiple missions in Ar Ramadi, Iraq during operation Iraqi Freedom. After their military careers came to
A couple of weeks before Christmas, my wife got a Christmas card in the mail, and a great lesson in customer care. Being close to Christmas and all, a Christmas card doesn’t sound so unusual. What was unusual, however, was that this card was from
so·lo·pre·neur A person who sets up and runs a business on their own. While the term “solopreneur” is relatively new, the concept is as old as commerce itself. Picture an old world tradesman such as a blacksmith, cobbler, barber, or baker. These were often generational
Focus on habits instead! You know what time it is. It’s time to make those New Year’s resolutions again. So, what will it be this year? What are the goals you’ll declare for 2020? Maybe it’s weight loss, or perhaps you’ll start using that gym
How I sold & built 92 client websites from a hotel basement with no marketing spend. This has been a good year for me and my new website agency, Spirelight Web. When the digital dust settled, and the numbers were crunched, I ended up landing