In less than an hour, our fifth book, Finding Money: The Small Business Guide To Financing, went from manuscript to publication today. The last four took John Wiley & Sons about six months to produce. We make three times more on this one, too. Using iTunes Connect, I filled out identity forms, contracts, and entered [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Telecommuting at 32,000 feet
Kate and I are on the way home from the WorldatWork annual conference in Dallas where she delivered a speech titled “Telecommuting: The Bottom Line” along with Jim Ball co-founder of the all-virtual call-center company Alpine Access. Alpine is an amazing company that’s living proof of the advantages of telework. They have 2800 people working [...]
Cool Gadget of the Week
Okay, maybe I’m just a cheap date, and a little late to the party, but there are some inexpensive (99¢) technological marvels that just tickle me to death. Yeah, some expensive shiny objects will turn my head and open my wallet (hey, I’m a guy), but cheap is always better if you get the same [...]
New Business Evaluation 101
A reader commented on our post titled “How To Start An Online Business In 1 Easy lesson” saying: “Many great product and service ideas have gone down the drain though lack of even preliminary evaluation and planning. There are short-form “elevator speech” type evaluations of the beginnings of evaluating ideas. . . .To suggest “Shoot, Ready, [...]
The Thrill Of Victory And The Agony Of Delete
Anyone who depends on a computer for their livelihood—freelancers, teleworkers, telecommuters—has, at one time or another, felt the thrill of victory when they finally figured out the strange combination of keystrokes required in Word to do some simple task. But they also know the agony of delete. It’s that moment when you push the Delete [...]
