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Goal Setting

On the Importance of Momentum

October 8, 2009

I want to share a lesson I’ve learned (often times the hard way) over my last 4 years of entrepreneurship. That lesson is: Momentum is the key to almost everything.
Now – there are a lot of things that allow you to build momentum, those things being the core tenents of motivation (passion, ambition, drive, etc…), [...]

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Freedom from Fear of Failure

September 23, 2009

A few days ago, I blogged a bit about how perfectionism ruined everything. I wanted to take that one step further and think more about why that project didn’t go off as planned – and, on a higher level, why many projects die on the vine.
And, I think I have it figured out – Fear [...]

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Training Targets – Week 2

September 20, 2009

So – I have discovered that logging these via a public blog is pretty effective in keeping things honest. It’s also nice to be able to go back and review, and crossing out the training sessions on each week’s training target is a good motivation.
Week 2 should be pretty straightforward as well.  The Couch to [...]

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Managing a Busy Business Schedule

September 15, 2009

Over the last few months, I’ve made a pretty strong transition away from client facing consulting work and towards building up (hopefully) sustainable business units that will be a source of recurring income.  Ideally, these business units are scalable to the point that once they are going full blast, the time I have to spend [...]

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Personal Finance – How to Avoid Car Payments

August 28, 2009
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Many of you who know me know that I am a complete geek when it comes to personal finance.  I spend an inordinate amount of time managing our finances and researching the best ways to invest, save, and achieve our financial goals (when I say “our”, I mean my soon-to-be wife and myself).  Thankfully, we’ve [...]

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Hitting the Reset Button

August 25, 2009

One drawback of being an entrepreneur – especially in a service industry like marketing – is the tendancy to get caught up in day-to-day emergencies.  This client needs something, end of the month reports are due, I had a great idea to try this….next thing you know, your business plan is blown all to crap.
So, [...]

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Basic Online Marketing Strategy

January 3, 2009

Together, we’re going to go over basic online marketing strategy:

Distinct actions you want your website visitors to take (IMPORTANT!)
Explaining Conversion Rates (and how they affect your bottom line)
Discovering how much you should be willing to spend for a customer or lead
Simple, free ways to track your website traffic

This [...]

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’tis been a while, no?

September 8, 2008

So – wow – a whole summer with no posting.  I suppose you could say I’ve been busy, but really, I’ve just been lazy.  You can only do so much before something falls off – and this blog was it.
I’m working on several projects at the moment – not the least of which is still [...]

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10 things I’m thinking right now.

January 29, 2008

So, I’m going to bring back an old favorite, the “10 things I think” posts – which I unceremoniously hijacked from SI’s Peter King. They were a crowd favorite back in the day.
1)Blogging is more fun when you do it for you.  No pressure, no traffic stats, no worries.
2)This blog was supposed to be my [...]

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Makes me nervous.

January 25, 2008

I promised Keohan I’d run a half-marathon with him in April.
That’s 13 miles on foot.  ‘Tis a long way, no?
Can’t help but feel a bit nervous about this, but it will be interesting.  I’m trucking through 3 miles pretty easily, and apparently this training program will carry me through to the rest.  C’mon shin splints!
In [...]

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