Category Archives: Business

How to change people’s minds about you (Final step: Turn on the launch sprinklers!)

Holy crap, this has been a long series! This is part seven (and final!) in a series on changing your online image. If you haven’t read the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth posts in the series, you might want to check them out for full effect. Also, everyone who joins in on the discussion will be added to [...]

Rock your audience, Part 2: Transitioning out of peanut-hood

This is the second part of a series on rocking your audience at whatever stage you’re at. As we go through each stage, I’d love to discuss it like crazy and do some q&a before moving on to the next one. So got comments? Leave ‘em. I’ll be adding everyone who participates to the Twitter [...]

(How to give me) advice on hiring

If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you know that I’m into useful content. I don’t post crap that’s not going to directly help, inspire, or promote you and your Big Dream. So most of what you read here is about “How to use your website to quit your day job” and [...]

How to work with people who rock hard

…as opposed to people who suck the living soul right out of your body. I spent about an hour yesterday thanking God that I don’t have to deal with bad clients like this anymore. It sparked a huge amount of gratitude that I work with such amazing people.
If you are still dealing with difficult clients, [...]

Scaling Mount Local, part deux: Getting your first non-local customer

During the time that I like to call “the week of the dead” — when comments were broken, posts could not be uploaded, and everyone thought I dropped off the food chain — I got a bunch of emails. A bunch bunch. Lots of questions about some of the stuff I’ve written recently.
Havana was one [...]