One of the most undeniable traits of a real entrepreneur is the ability to be flexible. To move in the right direction when the time strikes and to turn, or pivot in another, when required. This is ‘formally’ known as the ‘Entrepreneurial Pivot’. I’ve experienced plenty of pivots in my career – learning something from [...]
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…
A while ago we moved into a new house. One of the main reasons we looked into buying a new place to begin with was because, as a Virtual CEO, I was working from home more and more. Today I take you on a quick tour of my new home office facility, and tell you why I made the changes that I did. All with the focus on productivity!
I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting todays guest face-to-face yet, but I know that when we do eventually meet up in the flesh we’ll just get on like a house on fire. Tyler Tervooren’s thirst for life is clear to see, and the way he approaches community, networking and getting things done is an inspiration for [...]
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 Rob Murhatroyd, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. That’s me above. Before and After my workouts began!!! Look down at your belly. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Do you like what you see? If yes, stop reading. If no, please keep reading. We are all knee deep in the Virtual Business [...]
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!
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.
In this episode of the VBL Podcast, I sit down to talk with good buddy and pro-blogger, Robb Sutton, on the finer points of starting, promoting and populating a blog with awesome content that will naturally go viral all over the internet. We also discuss the up’s and down’s of blogging full-time, and how to stay productive…
In this post, I call on the help and support of the VBL Tribe, to help me bag the one guest that has eluded me more than any other on the VBL Podcast – the one and only… Gary Vaynerchuk. What do I need – just a simple tweet. Thats all! I also announce the submission period for the second VBL Guest Post Season, too!
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 this episode of the VBL Podcast, I sit down with best-selling author, massiv and highly sought after speaker, David Meerman Scott, to discuss the finer points of social media and why businesses need to get their act together when it comes to Real Time Marketing in todays increasing competitive worldwide business environment.
In this episode of the VBL Podcast I get to sit down with one of my favorite online personalities. Gideon Shalwick is one of those guys that you just KNOW can help you achieve results! You’ll no doubt love this conversation with the man I call my ‘Yoda’, when it comes to everything and anything to do with online video…
In the last two weeks, I’ve received almost 150 emails since publishing my first Monthly Report for the Niche Site Project, from VBLer’s saying that they’d love to be involved in the challenge, but can’t for a number of different, collective reasons. I figured the least I could do is help… In some small way…
In this edition of the VBL Podcast I sit down to talk with one of my all-time favorite authors, bloggers and entrepreneurs. I reached out to Chris Brogan with the idea to talk to him about beginning, growing and capitalizing on relationships. What I got was a full blown, hands-down business lesson that I’ll never forget…
Last week I sat down with Derek Halpern, who has been making big waves recently online with his Social Triggers blog. I got on a video call with Derek for him to give me and the VBL Blog a good old fashioned marketing grillin’, on what I’m doing right, and wrong when it comes to converting visitors into subscribers on the blog!
Do you remember when you were young, when your parents and often your school would teach you about “stranger danger?” This would be something along the lines of… Don’t accept anything from strangers… Don’t go with or follow strangers… Don’t trust strangers, etc… When we grow up we easily forget. Question is… Should we?
One in a while you get the opportunity to have a free-for-all type of conversation with someone you’ve never met before, that you KNOW full-well, you will NEVER forget! This was the case when I got the chance to interview Peter Shankman – Founder of HARO, author of two super successful books and highly sought-after speaker…
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