Monthly Archives January 2018

My Name is Paul. I am a Failure. Failure Number 1 By the time I was 18 years old I had my real estate license, and that wasn’t my first stint at being an entrepreneur. Just before I got my license I attended a seminar where I was taught the art of buying bad debt for pennies on the dollar and then collecting it from the debtors by skip tracing and offering to settle their debt with them at a steep discounts thereby saving their credit. I had just gotten an American Express Credit Card and I maxed it out
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Loving What You Do Isn’t Enough. “Love what you do.” This has been echoed in some variation by some of the World’s Best Business Leaders including Steve Jobs during his Stanford commencement speech. In some corners of the business world it has been rephrased as “Do what you love.” Either way, it has been taken out of context and used by the “Ideapreneurs” and “career floaters” to justify all the great ideas and/or jobs they’ve started but never finished in the pursuit of “loving what I do.” Here’s the dirty little secret about love: human beings conveniently substitute lust &
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Why Your Website Sucks and How To Fix It Most, if not all, small business owners and entrepreneurs know they need a website, and if you’re one of the lucky few still in business after two years, you’ve learned that having a website without traffic is useless, traffic without conversions can bankrupt you.  Period. 95% of them are template bought, have poor IDX systems, and don’t generate any leads, and offer little to no value to the consumer. I cringe at most sites, and quite honestly it’s not as hard as you might think to dominate a local market on
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Entrepreneurs Have To be flexible If you had a choice which would you rather be; an Oak Tree or a Palm Tree? (There’s a moral to this entry if you get through the “science-y” part of it.) Oak trees are known for being massive in size and height. These trees mature greatly over a many number of years. They have strong sturdy roots that run deep into the depths of the earth. Anyone who is head strong, brave, courageous, and attacks a situation head on would associate themselves with an Oak tree. Palm trees on the other hand are known
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