One Man’s Attempt at Lifestyle Design and the Quest for the Perfect Virtual Company
When I was in college, a good friend told me a quote that has stayed with me most of my life. He said “Man proposes, God disposes…” (I heard a variation on this later on in my life “Men plan, God laughs…”) I don’t remember what the situation was that caused him to say it, [...]
Yes, I am still alive…I have taken a few months off to research some social media stuff (especially Twitter) and how to leverage it for Marketing products, and my Real Estate concerns.
So here is the gameplan for 2009:
1) Posting the series I had planned on how I got my first rental property.
2) Posting my progress [...]
I signed the lease tonight with my tenants; so begins my life as a landlord. In the next few posts, I am going to go into details on how I got my house, how I rehabbed my house, how I marketed my house, and the process I went through to become a landlord, in the [...]
There is a new organization created for freelancers and their clients. Here is info from their “About” page:
The International Freelancers Association (IFA) as the Voice of the global freelancers defines and provides the infrastructure for the development of the global freelancer market. The structure enables all stakeholders, be they freelancers, service providers, end user [...]
In my post entitled “On risk, and the fear thereof…” I ask the reader to enter “+Skype +English” into Google to show that there are people out there who sell their expertise translating documents or by teaching a foreign language. This got me thinking, are there other sites or services out there that expedite the [...]
Even though I currently work for a fairly large corporation, I have always tried to maintain an entrepreneurial attitude. For me, it’s not “our customers”, they are “MY customers”. I have been with the company for several years now, though layoffs, outsourcing, reorganizations and buyouts; this is probably the main reason they keep me around [...]
There is an interesting profile of Tim Ferriss in the September issue of Men’s Journal (I have provided the link here, but at the time of this writing they still had the August issue up). It is a good look into his life, although it pretty much goes over a lot of what others have [...]
BusinessWeek has an online article called “When Should You Quit Your Day Job”. It is a good read for anyone who works full time, but has a side business, and wants to quit to manage it full time.
Just a reminder, if you want to learn about Internet marketing using state of the art techniques, then participate in The Thirty Day Challenge. It is free; there is no up selling or product advertising (it is strictly forbidden), and is run by a two highly knowledgeable people in the field. The challenge kicks off [...]
I apologize for the gap, a lot has been going on.
First, my wife had it in her head that the hall bathroom needed to be redecorated. So, she tore down all the wallpaper and left the rest to me. She wanted me to re-prep the walls for painting, and re-tile a section of the bathroom [...]
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