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Writing Less Is Better (And Harder) Than Writing More
In: Education
24 Nov 2008This weekend I read Skinny Bitch (don’t recommend it) and The Dip (highly recommend it). Both were short, tiny little books with big type. A few years ago I would have looked down on these books because I figured the author was trying sell a whole book with half the material. I don’t see it [...]
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Do You Weebly?
18 Nov 2008In the past I’ve written that one of the best ways to test out a business idea is to throw up a quick website for it. This is inexpensive and will help you get feedback for your idea and possibly your first few customers. In the past it took me about 4 hours using WordPress [...]
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How To Make Your Business More Passive
9 Nov 2008If your goal is to make a passive business, sometimes you have to find creative ways to automate tasks which would otherwise be performed by a human being. Case in point: someone recently started spamming my tutoring site with messages like these: This type of scam shows up often on CraigsList.com and it just recently [...]
I’ve been shocked lately to notice how many of my friends (who are otherwise very intelligent) believe things which are totally false. It’s not just my friends. A remarkably large percentage of the population (and *gasp* maybe even you) believe some things like: You can catch a cold from going outside with wet hair. The [...]
Download A Recording Of My Talk – Successfully Starting A Business On A Shoestring
In: Education|Interviews
22 Oct 2008As requested, here is an audio recording of my talk from yesterday titled “Successfully Starting A Business On A Shoestring”. You can click play below and listen to it in your browser if you’d like. However, it’s about 45 minutes long so if it’s more convenient, feel to right click the “download” link below and [...]
Words Of Wisdom From Warren Buffet
In: Education|Interviews
2 Oct 2008I really enjoyed watching this talk by Warren Buffet last night. I hope you get a chance to watch it as well. Here are some of my favorite parts (paraphrased)… If you had to pick one person who you’d get 10% of their income for the rest of their life, who would you pick? You [...]
Some of you may remember how I took a passive income idea and launched it in one month. Since then I’ve been revising and testing out different business models as it slowly builds momentum. There are now about 300 tutors signed up and over 600 “matches” have been made (between a tutor and student). I [...]
Hi Brian, I would like to get a marketing opinion of you. I have offered downloadable e-books in the past for other educational products I developed but I had a problem with people stealing the work – buying one e-book, then copying it for others. I even had problems with my printed works in that [...]
Milton Friedman’s “Free To Choose”
27 Aug 2008In the last 6 months or so I’ve become a big Milton Friedman fan. Complex issues like inflation, money supply, economic growth, unemployment, government spending, deficits, etc always seemed like complex issues to me with many sides to the story. You could read or ask 20 different people about issues like that and you’d get [...]
Brian Goes To Court, Brings Home The Bacon
In: Education|Real Estate
13 Aug 2008Today I got to play lawyer. Some of you may remember this real estate deal which went bad, in part due to my own ignorance and in part due to an unscrupulous contractor. If it had been an honest mistake with this guy, I’d say it’s water under the bridge. But this particular contractor was [...]
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