Thursday, January 24, 2013

Entrepreneur Blogs

Entrepreneur Blogs That Will Change Your Life

As a blogger today you have to build your blog like a business if you want to have real long term success. So that will make you an entrepreneur, a blogging entrepreneur

It doesn’t matter what type of entrepreneur you are, we all need places we can go to get great info, resources and support on our entrepreneurial journey.

I wanted to share the entrepreneur blogs that I visit regularly to keep me learning, motivated and moving forward.

First you need to have the right motivation to be an entrepreneur, then you need resources to help you on your way.

My Top Entrepreneur Blogs To Help You…

WorkHappy.net is written by Carson McComas and has great resources for entrepreneurs. Carson provides information about using technology to improve your business, but he also covers info about marketing, SEO, and productivity.

Follow On Twitter – @Carson

Startup Nation is written by a large group of writers and is a free service founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We created this site to be your one-stop shop for entrepreneurial success, and we’re thrilled that StartupNation has grown to be the leading online content and community resource for entrepreneurs.

Escape from Cubicle Nation is written by Pamela Slim, she is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. Her blog, is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web.

Follow On Twitter – @pamslim

IttyBiz is written by Naomi Dunford, her blog is a place to get tips, advice, motivation, and support for your very small business. If you’re working from home or just thinking about it, come and hang out here for some great ideas and bad jokes.

Follow On Twitter – @NaomiDunford

Seth Godin is a business genius, so you NEED to read his blog. All I need to say.

Follow On Twitter – @thisissethsblog

The Closet Entrepreneur is written by Tomas, he is a freelance consultant to the home office warriors, cube dwellers, and business owners of the world.

Follow On Twitter – @tomascarillo

Entrepreneurs-Journey is written by Yaro Starak, his blog is aimed at those interested in Entrepreneurship, Internet Marketing, Selling Information Online, Blogging and Personal Development.

Follow On Twitter – @yarostarak

The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur is written by Michael Michalowicz, he started his first business at the age of 24, moving his young family to the only safe place he could afford – a retirement village. With limited resources and no experience, he systematically bootstrapped a multi-million dollar technology business, sleeping in conference rooms to avoid hotel costs

Follow On Twitter – @@tpentrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing is written by John Jantsch who is a marketing consultant, award winning social media publisher. He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System and Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network that trains and licenses small business marketing consultants around the world.

Follow On Twitter – @ducttape

On Startups is written by Dharmesh Shah, a professional geek I used to work in a reasonably fun job doing what I liked to do (write code). Eventually, I got a little frustrated with it all so at the ripe old age of 24, I started my first software company.

Follow On Twitter – @dharmesh

Young Entrepreneur Blog YE has become a “must visit” resource for start-up CEOs, founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, mentors and investors worldwide, reaching an audience that very few can match.

Follow On Twitter – @thebizguy

Small Business Trends is written by Anita Campbell, she has been an entrepreneur at heart her entire life. A lawyer by training, she has a wide range of interests, as reflected in her varied background in banking, information technology, human resources, marketing and eCommerce.

Follow On Twitter – @smallbiztrends

Under30CEO is written by Matt Wilson and Jared O’Toole, their blog is great for “Leading Gen Y to stop doing sh*t they hate.” Read start-up advice, start-up profiles, interviews with entrepreneurs and more.

Follow On Twitter – @@under30ceo

Quick Sprout is written by Neil Patel, he is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. Through his entrepreneurial career Neil has helped large corporations such as Amazon, AOL, GM, HP and Viacom make more money from the web.

Follow On Twitter – @neilpatel

Blogtrepreneur is written by Matthew Toren & Adam Toren, they truly epitomize the entrepreneurial spirit. They have many teaching and research interests including Marketing, Business development, Entrepreneurial emergence, Entrepreneurial strategy management, Business growth techniques, Innovation and new venture creation.

Follow On Twitter @@thebizguy

Thrilling Heroics is written by Cody McKibben, he started Thrilling Heroics in 2006 to encourage other young professionals to take risks, to accept the challenge that life puts in front of you—not to settle and work in a cubicle and vegetate in front of the TV and be mediocre, but to pursue an unorthodox, exciting lifestyle, to strive for excellence in a career that you’re passionate about.

Follow On Twitter – @codymckibb

How to Change the World is written by Guy Kawasaki, who is a former Apple evangelist and venture capitalist. Having launched multiple online ventures personally, and funded even more than that through his VC firm, he’s definitely worth listening to.

Follow On Twitter – @guykawasaki

The Entrepreneurial Mind is written by Dr. Jeff Cornwall, his interest in entrepreneurship came early in life. I grew-up with entrepreneurship and small business as topics around the dinner table at night. My family was involved in many ventures. I was fortunate to be able to be involved in many of my father’s entrepreneurial endeavors from an early age. That is where I caught the entrepreneurial bug.

Follow On Twitter – @cornwallj

Smart Passive Income is written by Pat Flynn, his blog is a transparent look at everything he does online. My businesses, my strategies and my income – it’s all out there for you to see. I’m not trying to show off my success. In fact, that’s exactly the opposite of my purpose here.

Follow On Twitter – @patflynn

That entrepreneur blogs list should keep you busy for a while and get you on track or back on track to being a blogging entrepreneur.

It doesn’t matter where you are with your blog or what your blog is about..this list will help you as much as they have and continue to help me.

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MAKE YOUR BLOG WORK FOR YOU

3 Smart Ways To Get Your Blog Posts Working Overtime

Once you become a blogger you quickly realize that there is a lot more to building a successful blog then JUST writing good posts.

Your time is limited, you have family, friends, maybe a J-O-B that you have to grow your blog around. You need to do the things that bring the most return on your time.

As a blogger that all starts with blog posts, blog posts can be anything you want them to be.

Have something to share? Write a post.

Have something to sell? Write a post.

Need help? Write a post.

Offer help? Write a post.

I could be here all day but I think you get my point...

Since blog posts are so important, then it makes sense to want them to work extra hard for you.. right?

Here are my 3 ways to get your blog post working harder and longer for you!

Use Titles That Grab People

The first step to getting your post read is to get readers attention with an interesting title.

What makes an interesting title? All it takes is being creative, but always keep the title targeted to what the post is about.

ex: “Do You Know How To Make Your Blog Sticky?” This does well because it’s a question and readers will be wondering what “sticky” is and how they can do it.

Put Keywords To Work Too

Take that a little further and add your keywords into the title. Adding your keywords to the front of your title will give you a post that is now working twice as hard for you, grabbing readers attention and getting that all important search luv.

Make Your Blog Easy To Read

We are all busy, and with so many great blogs to read it’s hard to read all posts word for word.

Many people, myself included will skim a post seeing what grabs my attention, if I see something I like, I will then read the whole post.

Keep It Small

A few ways you can make the “skimmers” see what’s most important is to first write in small paragraphs 1-3 small sentences tops. This makes it easy to read and makes the reader feel like they have less to read.

I have always written in small paragraphs because it’s easier to read and spread my thoughts out, but I got some nice proof recently that small was the way to go.

Other day I was reading the Copywriting Guru John Carlton’s blog

It was a monster post, so I skimmed it and then read it all but I wasn’t planning to read it all. But each time I was about to leave, the paragraph ended and kinda pushed me to the next.

Guess that’s why he is so damn good haha

When I read the whole post I looked at it again and noticed he writes in really small paragraphs and that helped me read it all.

Yes, John’s writing ability is a big part of what I kept reading, but the small paragraphs helped a lot.

Talk One On One

Another great way to get that post working harder, is to write as if you are talking to one person in the room.

write how you “really” talk

keep it simple

stay on point

make it personal

relax the over talk or technical talk

If you met me in a bar and we talked for 5 min you would know I’m JP from Money Dummy blog…would I know who you are?

Use Your Subs

Using subheadings helps the reader navigate your post easier and it also gives the skimmers a quick view of what each section will cover.

Subs are like mini titles… keep them creative to grab the skimmers eyes to want to read more.

Subheadings will help you write a post too. Sometimes I have an idea of what I want to write, I will throw down a few subheadings ideas then go back and write more for that section.

Highlight The Important Stuff

If you have something you really want your reader to see, then you need to make it look different from the rest of the post.

Using bold text or italics is a great way to get readers to see the important stuff.

Combining bold text, italics and even caps is a great way to make the post feel more interesting and also bringing the reader’s attention places you don’t want them to miss.

Promote Action

As you write a blog post you want to throw in some ways to make the reader take action or offer feedback or even continue the conversation after the post.

Doing this will help build an active community in your blog that will be noticed and bring in new readers wanting to join the party.

Here are a few ways to promote action in your posts.

Add a link in your post to another post that digs deeper into the topic.

Ask for comments, ask for their opinions, or their views on what you just wrote.

Ask them to re-tweet or share your post on social sites.

Ask them to join your newsletter or stay up-to-date thru email or RSS.

Your goal is to have the reader to do something after they read your post. Sometimes that means asking for it. If you don’t ask, you can’t be upset that they didn’t do it.

You work hard at writing quality blog posts, so why not get the most you can from each?

Treat each post like it is a little blog promoting robot lol

Build It, Unleash It and Make It Work for You. Use these 3 tips together with a well written post and you will have a blog post that will work hard for you long after you click – Publish! Let me know what you think or share other ways to make your blog post work harder for you… Leave a comment.

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Saturday, January 19, 2013

UNLEASH THE POWER

UNLEASH THE POWER WITHIN

Mention the name “Anthony Robbins” to someone and you will get a variety of comments, looks, glares, smiles, praises, misconceptions. Google his name and well, go ahead and do it if you haven’t already. Even on our TradeSmartU forums I remember when Josh first announced the possibility of putting together a package for our TSU family to attend the event in LA, that there were some negative comments about Mr. Robbins. After doing my own research, I find that there are more people that have good things to say about him than bad. The most common thread seems to be that if you are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend a “live” seminar, that one ought to embrace the opportunity with an open heart and mind. That is exactly what my wife and I plan on doing next week.

(My wife drew this picture in honor of Mr. Robbins.) I have never really been a big fan of events like this but we are stepping out of our comfort zone for a number of reasons. I have quite a little library of motivational CDs, books, cassettes and even VCR tapes from Norman Vincent Peale, Napoleon Hill, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Og Mandino, Dale Carnegie as well as Mr. Robbins, just to name a few. I have never had the desire to walk on fire. I do have a relationship with the One who walked on water and I don’t see why there would be any conflict of interest. I think most of us in the TSU family have the desire to live a fuller more rewarding life, and I’m not talking about money. I’m talking about personal happiness. The happiness that comes with setting goals and achieving them. The happiness that comes with meeting and having a relationship with your “better half.” The happiness that comes with starting a family and nurturing your children into responsible adults. The happiness that comes with having your daughter’s little girl look at you with wide-eyed innocence and say “I love you, Grandpa!” The happiness of planting little seeds in the ground and watering them and caring for them then enjoying the fruit of your efforts with your family. The happiness that comes with sharing the abundance of your blessings with those who are not as fortunate. The happiness that comes with being honest and faithful.

What do all these things have to do with going to LA next week? I think that we all walk a fine line, we like our privacy, we like our comforts, we like our nice cars and cool new smart phones, we like having Google puts when it’s getting hammered, we like having Apple calls when it’s trending upward. We like staying in our “comfort zone.” I believe that what I have received from all of the self help books and audio recordings that I have used is that sometimes we have to get out of our comfort zones and experience life. That we have to take a chance. We have to make decisions to change the things that need to change and to make true changes that are lasting and consistent. We need to take that first step, to reach out and say something nice to someone we don’t know. We need to be available to help other people less fortunate than us. We need to be available, emotionally & physically to whatever greater good we may be called for. Nothing ventured nothing gained, much will be required of the person to whom much is given.

He who wants the rose, must respect the thorns.

We are looking forward to the Unleash the Power Within event because we want to grow, we want to meet and get to know better the TSU family that I am connected with every single day online. We want to set new goals and achieve them. We want to know how to use pleasure and pain instead of just enduring pleasure and pain. We want to experience things we never dreamed of experiencing, we want to know people like us who we’ve never met before. We want to be successful, healthy, happy, safe and secure. We want to be focused and direct our focus positively to have complete control of our lives. We want to be better human beings, more loving, more caring, more hopeful, more faithful. We want to boldly go where we have never been before and we hope to see you there.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Dream Big Dreams

I love the New Year as it provides us the space to reflect, assess and sketch the blueprints to make our New Year dreams come true. As you do, I’d like to encourage you to dream bigger dreams and adopt the unstoppable achiever’s mindset. To help you, let me tell you the story of a young boy starting out with a lot less than you have going for you right now. You wouldn’t think this is the kind of upbringing, nurturing, training and development that would produce one of the most creative minds in history–winning 22 Oscars and 7 Emmy awards from 59 nominations (more than any individual in history) and being honored with the highest civilian award the United States government bestows—the Medal of Freedom. I think these not only eliminate any excuses you might have, but it will inspire you to consider your own greater potential. Let’s call this young boy Walter. Walter was born in Chicago in 1901 to a large Irish immigrant family. His father struggled at work and took out his anger on his wife and children. At only 8 years old, Walter went to work delivering letters. In any weather, early morning or late at night, he ran through the streets in his worn-out shoes, hurrying to deliver the mail on time. Any money Walter earned was then seized by his father. At age 16 Walter attempted to enlist in the army to participate in the first World War. He was refused for being too young so he volunteered in the Red Cross and was sent overseas, where he worked as an ambulance driver. Walter kept the troops in good spirits by decorating his ambulance with amusing drawings. Walter learned he liked to draw. When Walter returned home from the war, he worked various jobs in creative fields. He worked as a night watchman, which particularly suited him because it gave him an opportunity to study and practice his art. Later, he got a job at a small studio working on an advertising campaign, where he was paid a meager $40 a month but soon unemployed. Walter wanted to work for a newspaper as an editorial cartoonist but lacked the satire to do so.

Walter decided to start his own commercial art company, but it was short lived and ultimately failed to sustain. Still not deterred he decided to start yet another company, which this time was met with some success and he was soon hiring a vast number of his friends. Unfortunately the profits were not enough to cover the high cost of salaries and he mismanaged the money straddling the business with loads of debt, ultimately ending in bankruptcy. Even his success ended in failure. Certainly this should be a final lesson for him. But not for Walter. He recruited his brother to pool some more finances together and they started another business. They didn’t have enough money between them, so they brought on an investor named Mary. Once again Walter found success and he rehired many of his friends back. One year later, Mary married a man named Charles, who came in and strong-armed Walter. He told Walter if he didn’t comply to budget restraints he would lose his funding for all his now successful productions and all his employees. Walter refused to be controlled and was once again on his own. By now you’ve got to be thinking, just hang it up Walter and get a job, entrepreneurship doesn’t seem to be in your cards, right? Walter would refuse that thought as well. This time Walter decided he would start a Mickey Mouse sort of business. Literally. Walter drew, animated and became the voice of Mickey Mouse. Walt founded the Walt Disney Company and went on to produce additional characters that have been loved and squeezed by hundreds of millions of children such as Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Popeye the Sailor, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi and many more. Walt’s achiever mindset doesn’t stop there, of course. On a flight to Chicago in the late 40s he sketched ideas for an amusement park where he envisioned his employees spending time with their children. Even Walt’s brother Roy thought it was a terrible idea and convinced the Board to disapprove of the funding to build it. What does Walt do now?

His own company won’t go along with building his dream?

Well, Walt has a ceaseless achievers mindset. Walt went out on his own and raised the money by himself. Walt also inspired a dedicated team called Imagineers… something we all should aspire to be… and together they created and opened The Happiest Place on Earth on Sunday, July 17, 1955. He built it on ground where only an orange grove existed before. Disneyland is now visited by more than 5 million people every year.

Okay, you create the happiest place on earth, that should be enough right? Not for the achiever. In early 1960 Walt conceives of Disney World and EPCOT, this time on top of where only alligators go—in the swamplands of Orlando, Florida. You have to remember, in the 60s, where the Magical Kingdom resides today, there was nothing there, I mean nothing. The World of Disney, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, known as EPCOT was imagined and built on a full-fledged swamp. While Walt Disney’s life journey ended on December 15, 1966, when he was 65, the power of his achiever’s mindset lives on to this day.

According to statistics, annual cash flow from Disney films (not including sales and rental of videos) exceeds more than $1 billion dollars. The Disney conglomerate includes amusement parks in California, Florida, Tokyo and Paris, 535 international Disney stores, hockey and baseball teams, a number of newspapers and magazines and a cable television network. Annual turnover of the consortium is $21 billion and stock market capitalization is $42 billion. Not bad for a poor Chicago kid from an immigrant family equipped with only one thing, but as you can see, the most important thing—the dream big dreams, achiever’s mindset. As Walt said himself, “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” That’s what I want to help you do, find the courage to pursue your dreams, your BIG dreams. Share your big dream with us in comments below. Share this post with others to encourage them to dream big too.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013