From the outside looking in, many people assume that the biggest benefit to working for yourself and living the dot com lifestyle is the limitless earning potential. They go into blogging or YouTubing or Internet marketing with dollar signs in their eyes, envisioning a glorious future where money flows like water from the tap. And […]
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It’s said that it’s not what you know but you who you know that matters in life and work. Today, this can be applied to online businesses as well. An estimated 2 billion people access the internet via their smartphones from a base of 3.9 billion mobile users. There are also an estimated 2.65 billion
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I recently received an email asking how much I spend per month on the dot com lifestyle. I figure I would use the email as a post on personal spending and money management. It’s great to make the big bucks, but if you don’t know what to do with it, then you’re no better off
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If you want to be normal, if you want to be like everybody else, then of course you’d want to do like everybody else too. But we also have to recognize that “normal” is just another word for “average,” and striking it on your own with dreams of achieving the dot com lifestyle is hardly
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Given a choice, would you rather be rich, or just look rich even if you’re dead broke? Believe it or not, most people would rather look rich than actually be rich. I’ve been reading The Millionaire Mind, and it reveals the differences between what we say and what we do. The book chronicles the spending
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When it comes down to it, it’s not the credit card that is bad, it’s the person using the credit card. If you’re financially irresponsible, then it doesn’t matter if you live on cash or credit. You’re going to be a mess either way. You need to stop blaming the credit cards and look in
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The grass is always greener. For a lot of people who are more traditionally employed, working from home can sound awfully alluring. Even if you don’t want to quit your day job just yet, the prospect of telecommuting rather than actually making the physical trip to the office each day sounds pretty great. And don’t
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Are you unimpressed with the performance of your contact forms? Are they doing little for your website and failing to produce you the conversions you predicted? If so, it’s time to refine your strategy. Your contact forms are the key to your lead generation efforts because they’re what visitors use to hand over their information
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Today, John Benitez and I decided to try out a new ramen restaurant in Orange County call Motto Ramen. We were a bit apprehensive to try it out because the place doesn’t have a website. I mean, what business today doesn’t have a website? While waiting for our ramen, we decided to see if the
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It’s incredibly unlikely that someone is actually going to sit you down and walk you through each of these steps. That’s just not going to happen, at least at some sort of explicit, clearly laid out kind of way. Instead, it’s much more likely that this default life path has been laid out for you
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