Breaking Free
Experiments in tech entrepreneurship
Archive for the ‘How To’ Category
How To Track Your Keyword Rankings
In: Business Ideas|How To
9 Jan 2011Remember Seoaholic.com? It was an SEO tool that my friend Chad DePue contracted me to build while I was living down in Argentina. Chad has since rebranded it (with what I must say is a much better name :) and relaunched it as InboxSEO.com. There are some new features, it’s faster and more reliable, and [...]
Buying a new car still sucks. In person negotiations at car dealerships feel out of date and are unpleasant for many consumers. And websites aren’t much better: while there are a plenty of good car research websites, you can’t actually complete the transaction online. In fact, the state of the art in online car buying [...]
How To Sell Your Company
4 May 2010John Warrillow sent me a copy of his book recently (one of the perks of having a business blog) and it was surprisingly good. The book is titled “Built To Sell” – which actually turned me off a bit at first. It reminded me of “Built To Last”, the famous business book by Jim Collins, [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a cool week. I’ve been reading this awesome book, the 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing. It’s short, simple, and profound. Highly recommended. I also met up for drinks with another American entrepreneur living in Buenos Aires (found me through the blog). Turns out he started http://www.virtualdatingassistants.com/ Check it out and let him know [...]
StartBreakingFree Moved To New Server!
24 May 2009For the last year or two I’ve been hosting this blog (and others) on 1and1 Hosting with a shared hosting plan. While it was very inexpensive (about $10 per mont) the performance has been seriously lacking lately. On a regular basis I would come to the homepage, or try to log into the backend, only [...]
- (9) Comments
- Tags: slicehost
Video Of The New Billing Feature On UniversityTutor.com
In: Business Ideas|Education|How To|UniversityTutor.com|Wealth
7 Apr 2009Hey Folks, Here is the video as promised of the new billing features on UniversityTutor.com. For those just joining us, this represented a big change in the business model. Previously I was charging tutors $10/month to keep their profiles on the site. With the new business model, tutors can now have a free account, but [...]
The Secret To Working Less, Producing More, And Getting Rich
In: How To|Real Estate|Wealth
16 Mar 2009There is only so much you as one person can produce in a day. Your time and mental energy are, in some sense, your most precious resource. You have a limited supply that you can use in a focused and uninterrupted way each day. So the question becomes, what is the most effective way to [...]
For a while now I’ve been watching less and less actual television and turning to the internet to get around old fashioned media distribution methods. In this article I’m going to show you how I have finally gotten the right home theater system setup that I am 95% happy with, which will allow you to… [...]
- (28) Comments
- Tags: boxee, home media center, home theater, miro, ubuntu, xbmc
How To Get A Great Design For Your Next Website
In: How To
6 Mar 2009A few days ago I wrote about how you can get a business website built for cheap or free. Several people (correctly) pointed out that you often get what you pay for in these type of situations. They are absolutely right about that. If you go the inexpensive/free route you can easily get bogged down [...]
- (10) Comments
- Tags: website design
About this blog
Breaking Free is a collection of articles on tech entrepreneurship, business, and life written by Brian Armstrong. You can read more here »
Most Popular Posts
- 46 Ways To Start A Business With No Money
- How To Stop Letting Little Things In Life Piss You Off
- How To Understand (and Create) A Personal Financial Statement Each Month In 5 Minutes
- Early Adopters: 5 Ways To Get Users To Your New Website
- From New Idea To Business Launch In One Month (with pictures)
- How I Learned To Live With DSPS
- Making Progress...
- Entrepreneur/Hacker Meetup In Buenos Aires
- The Most AWESOME Interview I've Ever Done - With Captain Australia
- How A Board Game (Like Monopoly) Can Teach You Financial Freedom
You should follow me on Twitter here.
- kennjal: coool........ [...]
- Prada Sale: Thanks for posting so nice article.can't stop myselt coming back to this website to learn more. [...]
- Muneeba: loved wat u rote .... hpe ur copin well wid things.... i cn relate tht a lil bt totally undrstnd whr [...]
- Muhsinmuttaqi: 1. I also would like to know if Full Sail University is a good school to study Web Development & [...]
- Muhsinmuttaqi: Hi, I really like this article and I like this blog in general very much. I have just found [...]
- Announcing Ribbot.com – build your own Reddit/Hacker News style discussion forum
- Some random udpates…
- Bitcoin Wallet for Android
- Learning Programming
- Find a model at TheBookr.com
- Technology and Innovation – Is It Being Stifled By The Law?
- Something I coded up for fun…
- Being Controversial Is Good Marketing
- Selling Bridesmaid Dresses Online
- How To Track Your Keyword Rankings