The Entrepreneur’s Handbook – 59 Resources For First Time Entrepreneurs. Podcast #009 – Kick-start Your Own Business. StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #9 This podcast will give you some tips on how to kick-start your own business, especially a part-time, home-based business. Incidentally, I know the iTunes podcast subscription for this podcast isn’t working. You can still subscribe to it, but for some reason it isn’t displaying all the previous shows. I haven’t changed anything with the feed, so I contacted iTunes support (twice) to ask them why the iTunes listing suddenly stopped working and received no response after two weeks. I guess I’m supposed to “think different” if I want to get in touch with an actual human being.
If anyone knows how to correct this problem or how to reach a human at iTunes, please let me know. Enjoy the podcast… How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) Since posting my 2005 traffic figures recently, I’ve received many questions about how I was able to start this web site from scratch and build its traffic to over 700,000 visitors per month (Jan 2006 projection) in about 15 months – without spending any money on marketing or promotion. Building a high-traffic web site was my intention from the very beginning, so I don’t think this result was accidental. My traffic-building strategy isn’t based on tricks or techniques that will go out of style. It’s mainly about providing genuine value and letting word of mouth do the rest. Sadly, this makes me something of a contrarian today, since I happen to disagree with much of what I’ve seen written about traffic-building elsewhere. Here are 10 of my best suggestions for building a high traffic web site: 1.
Is your content worthy of being read by millions of people? When I sit down to write, I sometimes imagine myself standing on an outdoor concert stage before an audience of a million people. 2. How to Make Money From Your Blog. StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over $200/day $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06). I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion. In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there. Would you like to know how I did it? This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe). Do you actually want to monetize your blog? Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs.
If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first. If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it. You can reasonably expect that when you begin commercializing a free site, some people will complain, depending on how you do it. Can you make a decent income online? Yes, absolutely. Can most people do it? No, they can’t. Perks. 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed. Having been a non-employee for about 14 years now, I’ve made my share of stupid business mistakes. I’ve also coached a number of people to start their own businesses, and I’ve seen many of them make similar mistakes. This advice is geared towards small business owners, particularly people who are just starting (or about to start) their own business. 1.
Selling to the wrong people. While sales are important to the survival of any business, you don’t need to push your business on everyone you meet, including friends and family. Furthermore, it’s a waste of time to try selling to people who simply don’t need what you’re offering. Selling to the wrong people includes trying to sell to everyone. Just because someone is interested in doing business with you doesn’t mean you should accept. 2. Until you have a steady cashflow coming in, don’t spend your precious start-up cash unless it’s absolutely necessary. 3. It’s also a mistake to be too stingy with your cash. 4. 5. 6. 7. I’ll say it again. Podcast #006 – How to Make Money Without a Job. StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #6 This podcast is about how to make money through multiple streams of income without actually having a job, which is something I’ve been doing for the past 13 years. This is a high-level overview of the general process and mindset involved in generating passive income streams.
It would take a lot more than a 15-20 minute podcast to share all the exact implementation details. But with the right mindset, you’ll be able to figure out the details over time. Enjoy the podcast… The Courage to Live Consciously by Steve Pavlina. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller In our day-to-day lives, the virtue of courage doesn't receive much attention.
But a side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively. No doubt there exist real dangers in life you must avoid. How many of these fears are holding you back? Have you previously convinced yourself that you aren't really afraid of anything... that there are always good and logical reasons why you don't do certain things? What Is Courage? Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon Everyone has talent. Site Build It. 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job.
Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.” She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!” Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job: 1. Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. Why is getting a job so dumb? Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? 2. 3. 4.