Life & Mindset

What Tiger Woods Can Teach Bloggers

Trust. It is everything in business. It can take a while to build it, but you can ruin it in minutes if you are a big enough idiot. Tiger Woods is just such an idiot. He is a gifted athlete and a man (I thought) worthy of respect. He had it all, but most of [...]

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The Downside Of Self-Inflicted Ignorance

I had a small exchange over on Twitter this afternoon that moved me to write an impromptu blog post. This post is NOT an attack piece or anything personal AT ALL. It just brought to mind an idea I feel is important. I have been working on tightening up the funnel over on PCMech.com. My [...]

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Why You Need A Mastermind Group

Yesterday, I was over in Celebration, FL for a meeting of the minds. It was a mastermind meeting. Several people in internet business gathered in a board room and talked shop for several hours. The way it worked was this: First, presentations. Nothing formal, but if any of the group members wanted to present some [...]

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Lesson From Izeafest (Day One)

As I sit here in the conference room getting ready for Day 2 of Izeafest, yesterday made clear a lesson… This business is NOT complicated. The only secret there is is TAKING ACTION. Yesterday, we listened to people like Brian Clark (from Copyblogger), Sarah Evans, Ted Murphy and others. All of them “experts” and at [...]

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Overcoming The Technology Hurdle To Blogging

Hey, how’s that PHP programming going for ya? Not so good? Hey, you want to modify your blog theme? Well, just FTP into the themes directory, put the proper theme template tag in there, with the right function attributes, throw a little cascading style sheets into the mix, and you’re done! See how easy that [...]

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How This Problogger Is Dealing With Uncertain Economic Times

As you guys know, my business is problogging. I make my living as a blogger, and more recently I am making a business of showing other bloggers how to do the same. However, it is really easy to get so involved in MAKING money that you forget to figure out how to KEEP it. At [...]

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Becoming a Better Problogger By Becoming a Better You

Ever been in a rut as a blogger? I can tell you that I most certainly have. Have you ever “worked” really hard all day, then sit there at the end of the day and wonder what you really accomplished? I have. Have you ever had difficulty concentrating? Have you ever felt like your life [...]

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Are You at a Blogging Crossroads?

This is a guest post from Nathan Hangen, a webrepreneur, social media consultant, and triathlete. He authors the Webrepreneur Blog. I remember some time ago when I was thinking about giving up blogging. I wasn’t getting many comments and my page views were inconsistent. It seemed like I was putting more work in than I [...]

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Important Skill in Life: Saying NO

Do you ever find yourself going in a million directions at once? Do you ever find yourself being tempted into some new opportunity when you’ve already got plenty of stuff going on? Do you ever find yourself being really busy, but ultimately not living the life that you want? Perhaps you need to learn this [...]

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Why Throwing Money Away Can Make You Richer

We’ve all heard the phrase: “It Takes Money To Make Money”. Do you agree with it? Usually, it is thought that this means you have to invest money to ultimately make money back. In almost all cases, this is true to some degree. However, I think there is a matter of attitude about this. And [...]

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