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Hey Folks, The past week or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for my passive income business, UniversityTutor.com: MAP BASED SEARCHING FOR TUTORS! This is using some Google Maps technology underneath to integrate with my site and hopefully it will make it much easier for people to find tutors based on their [...]
My Website Improved 14% Changing One Sentence
26 Jan 2009Hey Folks, I decided to do a video blog today to show you a recent change I made to my passive income business, UniversityTutor.com. For those of you who haven’t been following the blog for a while, I launched this business in about 1 month with $100. I only changed one sentence on the website [...]
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- Tags: passive income, testing, video
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 [...]
Who have you taken advice from and why does their advice work?
In: Advice|How To|Psychology
18 Oct 2008An anonymous poster asked this great question on the Breaking Free forum… Who have you taken advice from and why does their advice work for your specific type of business? It is important to figure out what exactly works for you and why, so that we can find the right path for each of us. [...]
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- Tags: Advice, business, experience, mastery, success
Business Plans Are Bullshit
6 Oct 2008Breaking Free reader Rui writes in with the following question… Can you suggest where to get help in order to develop a business plan? Hi Rui, What most people mean when they talk about business plans is a 25 page document with lots of fancy stuff like an executive summary, break even analysis, excel graphs, [...]
No Plan, No Capital, No Model… No Problem
12 Aug 2008This video shows an interesting panel of people who’ve started web companies: Marcus Kazmierczak, VP of Engineering, MayasMom.com Marcus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com Dave Lu, CEO, Fanpop.com Karen Northup, CEO and Founder, CoreFino Check out a hilarious story around the 18:57 mark from James Hong about how he bootstrapped HotOrNot.com for literally [...]
The Best Of StartBreakingFree.com
7 Aug 2008One unfortunate part about blogging is that great content can quickly get pushed off the home page as you continue to make new posts. New subscribers sometimes miss out on some “hidden gems” from the past. I was looking back at some posts from the past year, and these really stood out to me as [...]
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