How do you feel about people who are very successful? What’s your attitude toward the movers and shakers in your field? Do you admire and respect them? Do you speak highly of them? Or are you suspicious of them? Do you criticize or attack them? What’s the true role of these people in your life? [...]

There was a recent discussion in our forums about the contrast between playing an online computer game (MMORPG) and, over a period of weeks or months, acquiring a substantial amount of gold for your character (avatar) versus experiencing the opposite situation of financial scarcity in real life. The question posed was: What’s it like to [...]

Rebecca Turner is a successful online entrepreneur who created a website to teach people about lucid dreaming, aptly named World of Lucid Dreaming. She’s been a regular participant in our discussion forums. After watching her openly share eBusiness tips with other forum members over a period of months, I asked her if I could interview her for my [...]

Site Build It recently launched a new service that I’ve been eager to review. It’s called SBI eLearning, and it’s a structured 12-week online course with a real instructor that guides you through the process of building and launching your own income-generating online business. This is the ultimate in hand-holding. By the time you complete the course, you’ll [...]

Site Build It, a service that helps you build a profitable online business (see my complete review), is currently running a Mother’s Day Special. This is an extra optional bonus where you can order a second SBI subscription for a friend or relative (or even yourself) for only $100 extra instead of the regular $299 price. This [...]

Have you ever heard of an elevator pitch? That’s when someone casually asks, “What kind of work do you do?” and you give them a brief answer in roughly the time span of an elevator ride. The people who hear your elevator pitch could be potential business partners or clients, or they could be strangers you meet [...]

One of the traps people fall into, especially during an economic recession, is the trap of living paycheck to paycheck. You can’t afford to switch jobs or get laid off because you’re just barely making enough to squeak by. Erin and I were in a situation like this about 10 years ago. We would sometimes end [...]

What do you think about self-help gurus that achieve most of their success (financial or otherwise) through the vehicle of their work as a self-help guru? What can we say about a motivational speaker who talks about success but whose greatest success is being successful at speaking about success? I see no problem with this, [...]

Site Build It! is currently offering a special buy one get one free holiday promotion. This is their best offer of the year. This is an extra optional bonus where you can get a second Site Build It! subscription for a friend or relative (or even yourself) for FREE instead of the regular $299 price. [...]

As a follow-up to the last article, let’s tackle the question of how to discern whether or not you’re creating and delivering real value. The simple answer is that you know you’re creating value when you can see tangible positive changes in the world as a result of your creative output. Weak Value Suppose I [...]