As I turned the corner North around City Park’s East edge, an orange glow glistened across the pale blue mountains. Oh this urban skyline that no other city in the world can compete with. I thought, “This city… this great place I live. I want to do more. I want to leave it better than I […]

“I’m going to screw him up.” I don’t feel alone in this thought as I gaze at my ten week old. Other parents have admitted this simple adage to me even before I had my first child. And then I think of my own parents: all knowing, all powerful. This ideology clashes. I am aware […]

If you have a website, it’s a good idea to think about how you want to get people (or as we in the internet marketing world call “traffic”) to it. And you don’t really want just anyone, you want people that might actually call you and ultimately buy from you. I’ve been building websites since […]

It’s not like I was a big fan or something, but I always enjoyed moments when I saw her ruffling people’s feathers. Taking this opportunity to reflect, what can we learn from Joan Rivers in her death? She Wasn’t Afraid One thing is for certain, she went against the status quo. She stood up to […]

Never fails… “What’s the big pain in your business?” “I don’t have enough customers…” “Who is your customer?” “Well… I work with lots of people, mostly small businesses, some non-profits, this and that really; I don’t really have a niche. You know, I like to keep my options open. I don’t want to get too […]

I probably look for lessons in too many places. I think that began with my parents trying to teach me a lesson no matter the situation. My Dad for instance, even though he’s an engineer, had a knack for understanding why certain businesses did well and others did not. He used to tell me about […]

At any given second, during any day of the year, people are reading, watching, or talking about something I have written, recorded, or said. This is not my ego talking. I am not some all-powerful-all-knowing human of any relative worldly significance. It is not because what I have to say is necessarily more important than […]

There’s a rampant entrepreneurial myth: If my product or service is amazing, it will be successful. I have fallen victim to this myth more times than I would like to admit. “If I only have more time to build my product, more money to deliver my service, then and only then will I be successful.” […]

You are either in one camp or the other: The pie is a fixed size: I need to get as big a piece as I can get. If others get more pie, I will get less pie. The pie is a variable size: I need to help the whole pie grow. As long as it grows, […]

I have been an internet entrepreneur now going on over fourteen years. I feel like the amount of tools available online expands exponentially year over year. Sometimes it’s hard to pick. I can’t tell you how many trials, starter plans, and recurring fees I’ve incurred over the last decade and half, but it’s a lot. […]