Social Networking For The Self-Employed

Social media is the fastest growing form of marketing in the world today, and for good reason. Over the past two decades the Internet has spread like wildfire, from the old 14.4k dial-up modem days to today, where high speed Internet access is available to most of the planet via the touch of a button on a cellular phone. And with the spread of the Internet has come more and more ways for people to communicate over it, from the pre-Internet BBS‘, through e-mail, mIRC, chat rooms, message boards, all the way up to services…

You Don’t Need To Be Perfect – Just Better

The business world offers a virtually limitless array of opportunities and, consequently, challenges. There is always something more you could know about how to achieve your business goals – even the masters (especially the masters) are still always learning more about how they can achieve ever greater success. There’s an important takeaway from that knowledge – there isn’t anybody in business who is already perfect. Everybody has screwed up a couple of times.

You probably already know all that,  so why am I bringing it up? Because psychology matters, in business as in everything else, You can’t let yourself get…

Know The Risks – Why Businesses Fail

It’s a fact of life – business is risky. It is virtually impossible to guarantee success with perfect certainty. There are simply too many variables to be able to plan for every eventuality. This is especially true for new business owners who lack the experience to predict what sort of challenges they’ll face – that’s why most small businesses fail in the first two years. Knowing the biggest risks to your business in advance can give you the understanding you need to plan for those threats and meet them head on when they arise. By planning for…

Protect Yourself From Inflation With Scalable Income

Inflation has been in the news regularly lately, a consequence of the ongoing global recession. Inflation is an important metric for central banks and investors to measure, as it gives some insight into the actual value of an given currency. Because inflation impacts wages and prices at the same time, the biggest concern is not the purchasing power for average people on point-of-sale purchases (though that is what is often highlighted) but rather the impact on long-term debt and investment holdings.

Inflation is going to be generally helpful to people who are holding a lot of debt -…

The Indispensable Right Hand Man (Or Woman)

History is full of people with partners, without whom they never would have enjoyed the success they had. Take comedy, for example – you have Abbott and Costello, Penn and Teller, George and Gracie, and, say, Bush and Cheney.  Each person (ok, with the possible exception of  Bush and Cheney) could have become a success on their own, but having that additional person there to work with, bounce ideas off of, and in general work with hand in hand elevated them to the levels of success they enjoyed.

The examples I listed demonstrate that having someone by your side to…