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This entry is part 18 of 18 in the series UniversityTutor.comThings have been growing nicely at my business, UniversityTutor.com, in the last few months.
Here are a few graphs that I have auto-generated each week to see what’s going on. I really like the idea of having a “dashboard” for your business like this to help [...]
How To Start Your Own Country
26 Jan 2010This is sort of a funny topic I’ve been reading about recently, and I wanted to share some findings. It’s mostly just meant for fun (mental masturbation in the wider sense of “breaking free”) but has some interesting long term implications.
Read on future King and Queens!
First Of All, Why Would You Want To Start Your [...]
My Business Will Take Off This Year, If ONLY…
In: Education
18 Jan 2010What’s holding you back from accomplishing your business goals this year? This might help you stay on track…
OnlineProfits.com just re-launched their site. I told people about this last year and it seemed to have pretty good feedback.
The people who teach this are pretty top notch in their industry, check out the contributors. A few of [...]
Check out this page Ramit Sethi put together about getting your finances under control. It’s generally great advice and I do quite a lot of it already, like setting up automatic deposits to my ING Direct savings accounts.
Here is an email he got from a reader…
“I want to earn more (I know, who doesn’t)
I keep [...]
10 Businesses that make REAL money online
In: Business Ideas| Education
29 Oct 2009If you’re interested in starting an online business from home, and you’d like to learn about the top businesses that are working right now, then check this out:
http://www.startbreakingfree.com/go/ignition/
Or here is the video link:
You can get a free ticket to a 90-minute webinar called: ”10 REAL Online Businesses You Can Start From Home RIGHT NOW.”
Eben has started several multi-million dollar businesses [...]
SCREENSHOT: Build A Business That Scales
In: Education
26 Sep 2009It’s inspiring to check out your Google Analytics stats sometimes. Things go up and down naturally a bit each month, but as long as you’re helping more people over time then it will be hard not to be successful.
According to Google, over 33,000 people used something that I built last month. That’s a drop in [...]
I recently stumbled on the writings of Paul Graham and I have to say I’ve been incredibly impressed. It’s not often that I find myself finding such insight and experience in what I read. Most people out there are hawking versions of the same story, but Paul Graham seems to have a unique perspective on [...]
Nerd Exercise To Stimulate Your Brain
In: Education
27 Aug 2009This isn’t specifically related to starting a business but I thought some people might find it interesting. It gives you a little insight into computer science and will make you feel smarter.
You know those weird bunch of characters you see on the end of some URL’s? You might have seen something like this:
Please confirm your [...]
The Pieces That Make Up FeedmailPro.com
In: Education
19 Aug 2009This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series FeedmailPro.comHere is an interesting list of the open source pieces that went into making FeedmailPro.com, in no particular order. Remarkably, they are all free. Perhaps what’s even more remarkable is that I can’t think of a paid alternative that I’d rather use in any of [...]
A Few Entrepreneurs You Should Be Listening To Today
In: Advice| Business Ideas| Education
5 Jun 2009From time to time I get in touch with various readers of this blog who are “Breaking Free” in their own way.
Please take a minute to check out their respective sites below and give them a look! It’s always pays to get around like minded people and see what you can learn.
Gordie Rogers is an [...]
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