Moving Soon

Well, we’ve been not posting of late because we’re transferring our blog to a self-hosted account. We’ll let you know as soon as it goes live–in the meantime, we’ll be going back and reposting the entries we’ve written over the past two weeks, so make sure you go back and read them!
 As soon as the [...]

Is your passion market hungry?

Hopefully you’ve now started to research your passion, and have found your target market. If so, fantastic–if not, keep researching.
The next step is to see if your target market, in your passion area, is “hungry.” How do you find this out? Look at your research. Are there others in your passion market that are selling [...]

Following Your Passion

Hopefully you have come up with at least one (or several!) passions that really drive you and keep you alive, keep you going, and light your fire. While we know it’s tempting to want to follow them all, you need to pick one to start with. Just one.
 Keep in mind that picking one doesn’t mean [...]

Marketing to Women

For those of you in business already (and hopefully really successful entrepreneurs!), an interesting book is out now called “Inside Her Pretty Little Head” by Philippa Roberts. The book covers how marketing has gone far astray in marketing the same way to both men and women, asserting that men and women are just plain hardwired [...]

Business is a-bloomin’!

If you’ve been following along, you should now have a pretty good list of passions, and some ideas about what you love about each, what you don’t like about each, what could be improved, and whether anyone is already working in that area.
And, your brain has now had all night long to mull it over [...]

I’ve got this list–now what?!

If you followed yesterday’s post, we talked about the importance of knowing your passion. Hopefully you made the list of everything you’re passionate about, even things that may seem silly or that you have no idea of how they could possibly make money.
Today you’re going to take that list and start brainstorming. Look at the [...]

The Secret of America’s Millionaires?

A recent article discussed the statistics of the top 1% wealthies families, which are families with $5,000,000 or more in net worth. There was a lot of good news in the article:
1. Most of those fortunes are less than 13 years old, meaning the vast majority (70%) earned the money themselves, not through inheritance.
2. Only [...]

Success Starts at Home

Success starts at home. If you have a mess at home, it’s likely you have a mess at work. If you are fighting at home, it’s likely to carry over to your work. If you’re behind with the laundry or bills at home, you’re likely behind at work. You get the idea.
To keep today simple, [...]

Want to Improve Business? Read More Books and Less Email!

Since Fridays around here usually consist of little work and lots of time off (yes, the office is usually closed on Fridays), we’ve been a bit remiss in keeping the blog updated on Fridays. But no more–we are now devoting Fridays to useful bits of information that will help improve your bottom line. So, here [...]

Putting Your Money to Work

We have spent a lot of time talking about getting in the right frame of mind, and some esoteric discussions about being successful. Now, however, we’re going to be turning our attention to more of the nuts and bolts of how you really go out and become a millionaire.
(Don’t worry–we’ll still talk about all the [...]