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Our Crazy Mastermind Meeting [Video]

Thursday night, I drove over to Tampa for our bi-weekly mastermind meeting. It’s just a group of guys who are in Internet business and we get together for “shop talk”. We bounce ideas off one another, discuss strategies for our businesses, and yes, goof around a little bit. Here is my video:

At the meeting (again):

Myself
Kyle [...]

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What Do I Do All Day? [Problogger]

I was asked a funny question privately by (you might have guessed it) my wife. See, on Sunday, I went on a huge writing spree and basically wrote all of my posts for this blog for this week in one sitting. I don’t know if it’s a gift or what. It feels natural to me. [...]

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How Much Work is Being a Professional Blogger?

As another part of my wife’s interview of me this week had to do with how much I work. She said in her post:
I guess one of the downsides of having a spouse as an entrepreneur is that he works a lot.  Forget 9 to 5, it’s more like 8 to 10 with food [...]

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Obama Gave Me a Guilt Trip [Video]

I was reading this story about President-Elect Obama. All of a sudden, this wave of guilt came over me. If a man running for President (soon to be so) can work out six days per week, what the hell is wrong with me? As if being a blogger is more work than being the commander-in-chief?

Thanks [...]

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Which Is More Secure - The 9-5 Job Or Self-Employment?

In my wife’s interview of me, and in her blog post about what it’s like it being an entrepreneur’s wife, she asked me about how I plan for my “golden years”. In other words, am I planning for my retirement? Do I worry about not having a pension plan or a 401(k)? Do I worry [...]

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What Is Your Twitter Grade?

It seems as if we’ve been seeing a wave of various sites that rank you among other Twitter users. Like Twitterank and TwinFluence. I came across another one called Twitter Grader. It ranks your Twitter profile up against other users of Twitter, based on things like number of followers, the power of your follower network, [...]

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Being Interviewed By My Wife [Video]

My wife, Malika, is spending more time now on her new blog. She interviewed me using her Flip Video and threw the video up on Youtube. She is interviewing me about the topic of being self-employed, and she asks questions that, quite frankly, you need to be a wife to ask.
We were driving [...]

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Bloggers: It’s Important To Be Yourself

I had an interesting conversation with my wife a few days ago. She is starting up a new blog, but she wanted to maintain her anonymity. She wasn’t going to hide her name, but she didn’t want to be herself. She wanted to put forth an image that wasn’t really her.
It got me thinking about [...]

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Searching For The Bad Economy

While trying to find a place to park at the mall today, something dawned on me. So, I pulled out my Flip Video…

Searching For The Bad Economy from David Risley on Vimeo.
There are two choices, as I see it:

Watch the news, be sold the idea that everything is doom and gloom, and then react accordingly [...]

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How to Get a Brand New Blog Off The Ground [Traffic]

One of the biggest hurdles to a brand new blogger is often the one which results in the most frustration. That hurdle is traffic.
Yeah, its a biggie. You put all this work into your new blog. It has the makings to be a hit. You’re certainly hopeful. But, once you’ve put it out there for [...]

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