One of the aspects that I love about running a business, is dreaming big and making income projections.  I’m sure that many of you are the same.  After all, what can be more exciting than getting struck with inspiration of a business idea and then quickly calculating potential profits and losses? Pulling up an excel [...]

I recently read the book, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.  This book is a quick read (165 short pages), and so made it easy for me to accomplish my goal of reading one book per month.  This book was such a quick read in fact, that I have now finished 2 books for [...]

Exactly 2 years ago today was my last day at my corporate job as a Business Banker with Wells Fargo.  As I reflect back on where I was a couple of years ago, and where I am today I feel like I’m in a completely different spot. Like many of you, I went to a [...]

I recently wrote a big post on my annual goals here.  The post is worth checking out not only for my goals, but my annual year in review video. Anyway, one of my goals this year is to read at least one business book a month.  I really do enjoy reading, but unless I consciously [...]

I’ve been really busy lately.  But that tends to go with the territory when you run a bootstrapped small business on your own. In fact, in my software business (Long Tail Pro), I essentially where all the hats – visionary, product testing, marketing, technical support, billing, spokesperson, and more.  While I do have a programmer [...]

Yesterday, I posted about the link between more website content and more search engine traffic.  At the end of the post, I threw out the idea of forming a group that could motivate each other to create more content for their websites.  Well, I received lots of positive feedback in the both the comments and [...]

As I write this post, I am sitting on the island of Kauai within site of the ocean.  For the past few days, I’ve been having the time of my life hiking to waterfalls, surfing, snorkeling with tropical fish and sea turtles, seeing the Napali coast and so much more. But still through it all, [...]

Last week I ran a half marathon race. Leading up to the race, I decided I was going to plan an overall strategy for the race in hopes of running my fastest time ever. This was my 3rd half marathon, and while I did just “OK” in one race, another one was a complete disaster. [...]

Over the course of the past few years, I have tried out lots of different keyword research strategies.  In a nutshell, I think we are all looking for the same thing: how to find keywords that are easy to rank for as quickly as possible.  One of the “bottlenecks” of keyword research is that you [...]

I kinda feel like I need to give a “State of the Union” address like the President of the US does each year.  So this post is more like a State of the Niche Pursuits type post.  I have been on vacation with my family for the past 10 days, and this time has given [...]