10 Things I Learned From Working For An Asshole

October 17, 2009

One day at one of my previous jobs, my boss called me into his office. One of our biggest competitors had fired one of their top producers, whom we’ll call Fred. My boss had decided to hire Fred, but he first wanted make sure that he could count on me to work as this Fred’s [...]

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My 1st Big Location Independent Adventure!

October 14, 2009

This morning I embarked upon one of the larger journeys of my life – a five week relocation to Europe. After quitting my job three weeks ago to run my own business, I decided that I would put my location independence to the test. I arrive in London tomorrow morning. My brother lives in London [...]

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Focus on Twitter followers, not email list subscribers

October 6, 2009

Modern Conversions – Twitter NOT Email Lists from Brian Smith on Vimeo. (Sorry about the wind noise, I was outside in Tucson!) Highlights from the video: There’s a huge focus on “converting” blog visitors to email subscribers This focus needs to move from email to Twitter Email lists are more static than Twitter subscribers – [...]

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My First Week of Independence: Experiments in Location Optimization

October 5, 2009

It’s been one full week since I officially became office-free. One week ago today was the first Monday I wasn’t required to go into an office and work for someone other than myself. The freedom of this week has been exciting and very educational. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday I worked on Shortcut to China, this [...]

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Hey, you! Stop Blogstalking! – 4 Ways to get active blog participants

October 1, 2009

I find nothing more humourous, and frustrating, than friends, family, and colleagues who “blogstalk.” What is blogstalking? Blogstalking is the practice of visiting the blog of someone you know, but making no mention of it – or even denying that you visited their blog. Who blogstalks? Tons of people do this. Your friends, your siblings, [...]

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