The fact is that it’s the small businesses that fuel any local economy, and a lot of the time these businesses are in bootstrapping mode. Not only this, but from a business owner standpoint, it simply doesn’t make any sense to me why you would decide to pay more for a job to be done, than you really need to…
Nowadays, I often get interviewed for podcasts, magazines and blogs. In fact I was just interviewed by Yaro Starak for his excellent entrepreneurial blog and podcast, which I’ve personally read for years myself. I’ve been asked ‘If you could go back and start your journey as an entrepreneur all over again, what would you do [...]
As you know, it’s not often that I whole-heartedly get behind someone and what they have to offer online. But, I’m gonna do it today!!!
On Monday I published a post highlighting 3 bloggers that you must follow online in 2012 to achieve the success I know you want to – one of them was my good friend, Corbett Barr…
Warning: These bloggers could help you become uber successful this year! You’ve been struggling. You’ve had no motivation. No inspiration. That’s all about to change… 2012 is all about taking ACTION! And these guys (along with me, obviously!) are gonna help you… I present to you Pat Flynn, Corbett Barr and David Risley…
Six months in the making, and my new company is finally a GO! It’s your new one stop shop for everything project-based outsourcing related. We’ve been beta testing for months, and received rave reviews from our early clients. So, I’m super excited to now officially share with you my new company… YourWebPA.com!
Here I am with Episode 50 of the VBL Podcast! Just amazing… In this episode, I talk about why I’m putting the podcast on hold for a bit, and what its done for my brand, the blog and business in general. It’s a short, but juicy 20mins of just ‘lil old me chit-chatting away… Check it out!
I was recently in San Diego hanging out with my buddy, Pat Flynn, for a few days. Here’s a true story from that trip… Ever been sitting in a hotel lobby using the free wifi connection, only to have a complete stranger listen in on your conversation? Make you mad…? Next time, don’t get mad. Make money!!!
Google’s Panda has had a dramatic effect on the ranking of many websites. Before, it was possible to place 100 related longtail keywords on a page, throw some links at things and rank for many of them. In fact I had such a page getting 15,000 visitors a month, which is now down to just 140 a month. How things have changed…
Here we are with another month worth of stats, highs, lows and earning reports for the niche site I’m working on as part of the VBL Niche Site Project. Some seriously important lessons learned this month, as traffic took a bit of a hit, and Adsense earnings went completely ‘weirdo’ on me. Read the report for more info!
This post by Benjamin Spall, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. I have a huge respect for entrepreneurs. Making it is tough. Real tough. Like so many other things, it’s not until you try it out yourself that you can really appreciate the difficulty of the game. Take professional sports stars. They often [...]
Today’s podcast guest, Jonathan Mead is a guy that knows what he wants, and goes out to take it, on his own terms, every day. You have to love that! At his excellent blog, Illuminated Mind, his tagline reads “Live and Work on your Own Terms – Don’t read if you want Ordinary!’. I love that [...]
This post by David Risley, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Membership sites are pretty popular in the internet business arena these days. Passive income, baby! But, let’s leave the realm of the obvious and move into something practical. Membership sites have been my focus for some time now. I’ve learned some things [...]
This post by Matt Hooper, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. As an outsourcing master, Chris will probably be the first person to tell you that achieving success with your virtual staff depends on you as much as it does on your virtual staff. When you are adding virtual staff to your business, [...]
This post by Diggy, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. I was introduced to the concept of virtual business (making money on the internet) 3 years ago. In the last 3 years I’ve spent a lot of time, money and effort experimenting with different virtual business models. Needless to say, I wasted a [...]
In this episode of the VBL Podcast I sit down with Sam Carpenter, author of ‘Work the System’, to talk about the importance of putting systems in place for your business to run properly, without huge amounts of involvement from you, the big cheese – or, the business owner. This is a must tune-in episode for all entrepreneurs!
In this episode of the VBL Podcast, I sit down to talk with an entrepreneur I really admire, Mike Michalowicz, the brilliant author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Learn about what makes your personality stand out online and the importance of promoting the ‘real you’, as well as building a community around different media…
I’ve had a bunch of requests recently from people wanting to know how I get so much done every day / week / month, especially online and in the creation of all my content, additional resources and the running and developing of my businesses. So, I thought I’d put a few things down in a post and then open the discussion a little.
I’m in the process of editing my first ever VBL-related product, and I have to say, its been a massive learning experience for me. The fact is that I could have released this thing months ago. But, I have changed things around, procrastinated a certain amount, and quite frankly, put it on the back-burner a lot because [...]
In the last year I have started two virtual businesses. I’ve been heavily involved with both of them for a certain period of time, and then, once things seem to level out, and starting running on their own (and after I’ve hired people to run the businesses for me!), I step away, manage from a [...]
Here’s the second monthly update in an estimated six reports that will go live charting the growth and earnings of just ONE niche site, generating passive income via Adsense and more. If you’ve not been following the Niche Site Project that kicked off a couple of months ago here at the VBL Blog, hop on our band-wagon now…
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