Archive for June, 2007
If you are thinking about starting a business, I know one thing about you already:
You do not have enough money.
You just don’t. Odds are, unless your name is Gates or Buffet, you are under capitalized. Know what? Everyone else is too.
I guess somewhere out there is somebody who had the proper lines of credit, [...]
June 26th, 2007 | Posted in Bootstrapping, small business, success | 9 Comments
I was tagged by Roger Anderson with a Thinking Blogger’s Award. The idea is to link to 5 blogs that make us think, and tell why we like them. The hard part is picking only 5, as I am pretty brutal on weeding my RSS feeds weekly, so I tend to only read the [...]
June 26th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, Internet Marketing, List of 5, links | 1 Comment
It has been said that bad artists copy, but great artists steal. I leave it to you to decide if I am a copier or a thief, but I am a bit proud of the latest incarnation of my theme here at A Politically Incorrect Entrepreneur.
A bit of background
When I started this blog, I [...]
June 25th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, the blog | 5 Comments
A dilemma for bloggers: Do you write for Google, and use lots of keywords to attract the attention of both Google and those who are browsing search results, or do you write for your regular readers, using conversational or intriguing titles, like “Dancing with the bears while camping“.
Many people write for the machines: ie. [...]
June 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, Selling Online, the blog | 7 Comments
I like the bald guy. I have read pretty much everything he has written, and his blog has made it through every purge of my feeds I have ever had. So when he got behind the founding of Squidoo, I looked into it. Hard. And I just did not get it.
(For the uninitiated, Squidoo lets [...]
June 21st, 2007 | Posted in Internet Marketing, Selling Online, eBay, small business | 13 Comments
Hughism: Actions are to feelings as 9 is to 1.
Everyone wants to talk about feelings. It is everywhere you look. People are saying things like:
I don’t make more sales calls because it makes me feel bad.
I don’t open my own business because I would not not feel safe.
If I started my own business, [...]
June 20th, 2007 | Posted in Hughisms, small business, success | 1 Comment
It amazes me the things you can find on the internet. Like this one:
Remote Control Farting Bear
Not your thing? What about a
Farting Gnome?
If you are more of a reader than a buyer, you might (God only knows why, however) be interested in
The World’s Best Flatulence Blog.
[Thanks to the Brown Baron for the tip]
June 20th, 2007 | Posted in Silliness | 2 Comments
We rarely suffer from a paucity of choice. If we want something, there is, often as not, more than one supplier. Given the proliferation of options available to us, you have to ask yourself this:
With all the various options in the marketplace, why should I do business with you?
The answer to this is, or at [...]
June 19th, 2007 | Posted in small business, success | 4 Comments
As my Grandfather would say, I am busier than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, but I thought I would let you know where I stood on some metrics I measure.
I announced at the first of the month that my goal was to break the Technoratti 50k mark by the [...]
June 18th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, the blog | 7 Comments
As I mentioned before, several times, actually, Liz has had a call out for blogging metaphors. There is awesome stuff here; you can burn an afternoon with just these links. She awarded 10 lucky bloggers (no, I was not one of them, dammit!) with a copy of Lorelle’s Book on blogging (go get yours now!).
In [...]
June 16th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, links, metaphor | 2 Comments