Business to Investment

5. January 2009

Your Name (Reputation) May Be the Most Important to Protect

I often talk about the three assets you bring to any venture (business, investment and charity) - your time, talent and money. Lately, I’ve become increasingly aware of how important a 4th one is - your name. A friend of mine reminded me of this a few months ago. At the time I was thinking [...]

4. January 2009

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Active AND Passive Income From Websites

Hang in there with me on this one. I promise to keep it as simple as possible and if you can find a way to pull this off with your website projects, you’ll pay a WHOLE LOT LESS in taxes. The IRS currently recognizes three different types of taxable income: ordinary (you work for it [...]

3. January 2009

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What’s Worse Than a Bad Decision?

The best thing you can do is make a right decision. The second best thing you can do is make a bad decision. What’s the worst thing you can do? Make no decision. I have friends in this situation right now. It might be a business that isn’t working and it’s too emotion to let go [...]

2. January 2009

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You’ve Got to Stand For Something

One of the things I talk about a lot to clients who start new businesses is the need to have three things: vision, mission and values. Your Vision is the Why? Why do you do what you do? What is the bigger purpose behind everything you start? My “Why?” has always been about empowering people [...]

1. January 2009

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Multiple Streams of Marketing

In other posts, I’ve laid out my plan for 2009 and beyond. When I started this Business to Investment project, I had the naive idea that I could do a bunch of websites and somehow magically become rich. I’ve discovered that there is some work to it, at least in the initial set up and [...]

31. December 2008

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Signs of Life at the End of 2008?

Yesterday I talked to a real estate investor from Phoenix. He’s starting to buy, cautiously. He said it’s still a leap of faith to buy a property where every other house is abandoned. Still at $125,000, he’s getting property for almost less than the cost of the land. And he can immediately rent them for [...]

30. December 2008

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100 Websites

I have been talking about this 100 website project for I don’t know how long now. Well, this past weekend I finally planned out the sites. I’ve got roughly 1/3, 1/3 and 1/3. Why? Because it was easier for me to think in terms of 3’s. I wonder how many businesses launch that way? Someone [...]

29. December 2008

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Let’s Get Real About Real Estate and Passive Income

I’ve had an epiphany recently. For years, I said the secret that I used to build wealth was to have a business I worked in (earned income) and then took the money and invested in real estate. I side-tracked my tax education and service businesses to build another business, which tanked with a partner problem. [...]

28. December 2008

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Good Copywriting

I’ve spent the last few months looking for examples of copywriting styles. This is the highest paid skill I have, and I’m just beginning, sitting at the feet of masters right now. (I get to hang out with some very good, highly paid copywriters.) So I’m excited by the idea that I have something that [...]

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Business To Investment

Your Name (Reputation) May Be the Most Important to Protect

Active AND Passive Income From Websites

What’s Worse Than a Bad Decision?

You’ve Got to Stand For Something

Multiple Streams of Marketing

Signs of Life at the End of 2008?

100 Websites

Let’s Get Real About Real Estate and Passive Income

Good Copywriting

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