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The Thought Process of Finding My Business Through my Passions
It has been a couple of months since I’ve talked about photography and the business side of it. For the most part, I’ve been busy trying to figure out my avenues and the best way possible to be who I want in this type of business. The Process I didn’t think it was going to…
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December: The Last Month of the Year
I actually wrote this post over a week ago. I need to be better about posting, I’ve gotten use to writing, saving and closing my computer to repeat the same task the next day. I now all I have been writing about lately is about my novel and how difficult it is and all. The…
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Business Experiment Has Begun: Etsy.com
I am officially in business! After nearly two weeks of getting my first batch of purses and handbags (22), I finally put all of them online. I haven’t gotten any emails or purchases yet but know with a little of marketing, the business will start to make me money. I can’t tell much difference from…
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On Business: My Brother is Kicking My Ass at Ecommerce
It has been well over 2 months since I have started my business experiment. Each day that passes by I get a clearer view of the next step with it. The post isn’t about me and the struggles I’m having to sell vintage wear (4), but about my bro, so here it is. I didn’t…
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This Year’s Challenge is Difficult
This challenge/goal this year is going to be rather difficult. I knew what I was getting myself into, but didn’t truly know what I was getting myself into. See, the reason why I say that is because this is something that doesn’t have a clear-cut path of accomplishing. Business is some hard shit, just like…
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What Type of Photography is Right for My Business?
I don’t want to do weddings. I don’t want to do portraits, either. Studio work takes time, practice and money, same as sports photography. I’m a picky individual and now that I’m starting to find my niche in this photography game of business, I’m realizing all of the areas that I just mentioned are people’s…
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Business Idea Axed
I am at the point of my life where I see business ideas come and go. For the past 2 months I have been thinking, analyzing, talking to people, and being truly honest with myself on what it is that I want to do as a side business, and that will ultimately help me leave…
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Now is the Best Time to Start a Business says Robert Tuchman
This is a guest post by Robert Tuchman. The task of starting a new business can be daunting. It takes a lot of time, responsibility, and effort. And with the state of national economy, starting your own business can be even harder. In this tough economic climate, there are a few things you can do…
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Book Review: Young Guns, The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own
I’ll tell you right now, this review doesn’t do the actual reading of the book justice. I’ve read many business books in my day. There have been some that have been a total waste of time and some that have helped me along my way of becoming an entrepreneur. This book, however, has been more…
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Ecommerce, it has begun.
It has begun, I have set up the account, thought of a name, and am ready for business. I saw what my brother was doing and knew it was time for me to get into the game of ecommerce. I rejected the notion of even participating, and even was almost bullied into doing something I…
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Goals for the Rest of the Month…
In a couple of weeks I will be partaking in a shorten work-week schedule. I will get an extra day off, in return I will have to work 4 10-hour work days. It will take me sometime to get used to the longer days, but no time at all to get used to doing more…
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All of it is The Same: Blogging and Freelance Writing…
I just came to the realization that it is the same. I have been going back and forth with my leap of doing freelance writing on the side for well over 2 months. I didn’t do this much thinking and analyzing the situation when I started blogging over 2 years ago. I just simply got…
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An Entrepreneur in Disguise
Definitions of an Entrepreneur from Wikipedia: A decision-maker whose entire role arises out of his alertness to hitherto unnoticed opportunities An entrepreneur is one who combines the land of one, labor of another and the capital of yet another, and, produces a product. By selling the product in the market, he pays interest on capital,…
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The Franchise Business of the NBA
There are many successful business structures out there and one of the models that are seen so much are franchise businesses. The uniqueness of franchises is that all of them operate on the same business model and plan the main difference is that they are in different locations. A franchise main goal is to produce…
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Is Entrepreneurship for Everyone?
NO That was an easy answer, but I do believe if someone has an urge to try to make their idea come to life then they should give it a crack. But I believe it comes down to two factors that push people from doing something about their idea, laziness and determination. A Little Story……
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Not Just About the War of Warcraft!!!
WOW? I am sure everyone has heard about World of Warcraft(WOW). Either from playing video games in general or from last week’s episode of South Park. For people who don’t know about WOW, it is an online internet multilevel game. It plays like many role playing games where there are a group of people fighting…
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What Have I Learned from Failure?
Failure comes in all sizes and never seems to stop regardless where you turn. I can honestly say that I am a failure and business is hard as shit. That is why so many people in the world resort to their day jobs and live their lives accordingly. I am not knocking those people, everyone…
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The Direction of This Blog…
When I started this blog my intent was to write about the entrepreneurial things I was doing while working my day job. However, quite a bit of my topics have been more about situations in life than entrepreneurship. There are a couple of reasons because of that. One reason is that I like expressing my…
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What’s The Big Deal with a Business Plan and Model?
I at times wonder and ask people about their business, “How do you make money?” It is an important question because you simply can’t survive if your business can’t make money. In my last business venture we had an incomplete business plan and a shaky business model. Definitions from Wikipedia 1. Business Plan-is a summary…
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This Year…
So far 2007 is interesting. It can easily be a repeat of last year and me resorting to my old ways, but guess what, I won’t. I have learned so much already this year this past week I can truely say that this is going to be a breakout year for me. I will be…
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She has finally landed and the difference of tasks
Well my day goals yesterday didn’t go as planned. I didn’t read 30 pages each in the current books I am reading right now (The Art of the Start and Small Talk) nor did I run my 2 miles. But I did quite a bit of work for my current venture which launched today. You…
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Going 2 steps forward and then getting fucked later…
This past week was great. I learned alot about myself, other people, and what I see myself doing in the near future fulltime. Week of Business As some of you may have already known I have been going full speed on my current business, cubeweek. I have been talking to a couple of friends, getting…
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The Going Big, but actually going small
This statement may be misleading, but it makes perfect sence. Well it really depends on the type of business that you are starting up. If most of your marketing structure is based on word of mouth and viral marketing than starting out small is the way to go. However, there are tons of other reasons…
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You never know when Reality hits you in the face…
This week This week was a good week for a couple of reasons. First, monday was my birthday(however I made the mistake to start work at my new job on this day also, but didn’t do much). Secondly, I am getting paid for something that interest me (hydrology), I have come up with another realization,…
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Learning is Amazing
Reflexations of the month of September September is one of my favorite months of the year. It is the month of my birthday, the summer season ends and fall begins, entering the last 3 months of the year, and so on. But this time around I learned so much about myself as a person and…
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Are you scared of competition?
I have really been thinking of this question since last night reading a couple of blogs and watching this video. I started to panic and thinking of what I was going to do if there was competition, because it will come. First one out doesn’t mean that you will be on top forever. People can…
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The Importance of Meetings
I didn’t like meetings much until recently. The reason why is because there was nothing really important that came afterwards. I would attend, listen, give my input, but nothing really was vivid. There have been so many meetings that I have gone to that didn’t need me being their and I could have been informed…
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The frustrations of getting shit done in a business.
Miscommunication Excuses Other things more important Not enough time in a day Many Problems can be Minimized All of these examples are some of the trials that I am facing in my current business venture and sadly to say there are going to be more shortcomings that are going to happen. However, they can be…
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I didn’t know it got this crazy!!!
This business stuff is just unreal. Meetings left and right, communication conflicts, alot of time driving, getting help from business minded people about certain issues of the business ideal, and so on. And still no where near being finish to launch the business is frustrating, but also exciting. The ups and downs and what else…
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Thinking and not doing… What is the point?
My head is spinning out of control and don’t know what to do. So i will do the simplest thing and just stop. Yep, thinking about doing can make you go crazy and it is not worth my sanity. Thinking is probaly the biggest thing that gets people for not doing what they really do.…