Articles on How to be Successful

The articles listed below cover a few ways to improve the success of your business. Click the headline to read the full article.

I’ve been self employed for 18 months now and I love every minute of the independence it brings me. Recently, I was contacted by a head hunter who was looking for someone to work for China’s ‘most used and largest internet service portal’ (at least, that’s what their website says). When I told a couple [...]

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When I first got into Internet Marketing I struggled. A lot. But being up against it forces you to review your values, your priorities and what it is you’re really trying to achieve in life. I’m glad, now, that I struggled but I’m much more glad that I didn’t join the 95% of people who [...]

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Seth Godin’s book The Dip has some inspiring lessons for people at all stages in their career or business. Its message is quite simple: all new projects and businesses will hit a dip – that point in time when reality sets in and the excitement of the new project has worn off. Suddenly it all [...]

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Another excellent article from Nathan Hangen this week, with which I totally empathized. It continues the theme I referred to here with the point that there’s a ‘freeloading’ mindset today. Along with ‘freeloading’ I would add ‘responsibility avoidance’. And it’s not healthy. I see it reflected in so many ways. It’s the kind of mindset [...]

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I read a series of posts in a forum group yesterday which set out the steps people should take in order to achieve success in their online businesses.   So I chipped in with my own views – which I’ve repeated here:

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Job hunting in a recession… I saw an interesting question today: can a blog replace a resume? My answer was ‘Yes’.  If not a blog then a managed web presence not only can, but should replace a resume (especially if you’re environmentally conscious). There’s a truly spectacular array of sites where anyone can set up [...]

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