If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“Go introduce yourself. You’ve got nothing to be afraid of.”
It’s innocent advice, but you grimace inside. Yes, there is something to be afraid of. You’ll look stupid. Worse, you’ll know you look stupid, and you’ll spend the next four hours [...]

Customer profiling.
Those are two words you’ll never hear in everyday conversation. They belong on the chalkboard at business school, in a dense textbook about marketing, or maybe in one of those “strategy sessions” where the boss wants to know why the hell no one is buying your company’s latest product.
It’s a boring term, one that, [...]

Innovation. It’s a tricky thing.
Do it right, and you can make billions. Do it wrong, and you’ll end up in bankruptcy court. Either way, you’ll be called both a fool and a genius, and no one will know which is true, least of all you.
Amazon’s new Kindle is a classic example. Everyone is talking about [...]

Who taught Elvis how to dance, received the Congressional Medal of Honor, got Nixon impeached, became the world ping-pong champion, built a national shrimping empire, and fathered Haley Joel Osment?
One man: Forrest Gump.
If I could choose one mentor in business, or in life in general, it would be Gump. I don’t care that he’s not [...]

Yesterday, I ended with a question: so what do we call someone who runs a profitable blog?
Well, I have to fess up. It was a trick question.
I don’t think we need to coin a new buzzword to describe successful bloggers. You could argue that Darren Rowse did that years ago by coining “problogger.”
What we need [...]

Main Entry: blogger
Pronunciation: blog - ger
Function: noun
Definitions:

A nobody that always wanted to write and thinks people will finally notice their talent online
A lonely geek looking for attention
A marketer that publishes promotional fluff as an attraction strategy for a product
A depressed 9-to-5er that desperately wants to quit and work from home
A Darren Rowse or Steve Pavlina [...]

The first few months after you graduate college can be the most exciting and nerve-racking time of your life. You’re thrilled to be done with school, but you’re also wondering, “Will anyone hire me?”
College is no longer a straight ticket to a great career. We’re handing out more bachelor’s degrees than ever, and there’s a [...]

Would you like a foolproof, guaranteed strategy to get a raise? Well, here it is:
Make your company more money.
The people that get raises aren’t the ones that work the hardest. They’re not necessarily the smartest, either.
They simply become a better investment. What do I mean?

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Money never stops messing with your mind.
We’ve all heard that limiting beliefs about money can hold you back. If you’re going to become financially free, you have to replace those beliefs with more effective ones.
But then you’re set, right? Once you’ve adopted a “richer mindset,” you’ll never have to worry about money again?
Actually… you do. [...]