December 2010

Business isn’t fun!

by Neil Patel

serious business

You hear about all those glorified companies like Google and Facebook and you’d think it be fun to you start your own business, right? I hate to break it to you, but business isn’t fun.

Whether you want to admit it or not, the obvious reason why businesses are around is to make money. People start and join businesses to make money… it’s as simple as that. If you don’t believe me, just take a look at the New York Stock Exchange; companies are purely based on their financial performance.

If you want to have a lot of fun, you shouldn’t try to create a business, you should stick with your 9 to 5 job. Here’s why: [click to continue…]

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free seo report

Do you want learn SEO? As you probably know my background is in SEO, which is why I blog on it every once in a while. But I didn’t learn SEO by just reading about it, I actually learned it by doing it.

I know what you are thinking, where do you start, right? Well, the way I started was with an SEO tool called Meta Tag Analyzer. All you had to do is enter in your website URL and it would tell you what’s wrong and how to fix it.

Sadly, that tool isn’t useful anymore since it isn’t up-to-date. Fortunately, a new one that’s similar and better just came out.

Here is how you can learn SEO through Free SEO Report. [click to continue…]

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focus

Is it me or is everyone these days trying to get rich quick? Not only am I meeting more and more people who don’t want to work hard to make money, but they are starting to get into new business ventures that they are clueless on.

I know the grass always looks greener on the other side, but it really isn’t. Don’t get me wrong, those lucrative businesses are making people millions of dollars, but it’s probably doing that for less than 0.3% of the people in that industry.

So before you decide to jump ship and get into a new career, just for a second think about all the things you will be losing out on. Yes you may make some extra income in the short run, but if you put that time and energy into growing what you are already good at and love, you’ll do a lot better.

If you want to make a ton of money in business, follow these principles: [click to continue…]

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dumb and dumber

Making money online doesn’t have to be hard. You don’t have to be a computer whiz and you don’t have to be an experienced entrepreneur.

There are tons of people like me, who aren’t the smartest guys out there, but we have figured out how to make money online. When I first started out, I was in high school and I had no clue on how to even setup a corporation or where to start. But, I figured it out over time.

Just to prove it to you, here are 5 businesses that aren’t just making money online, but their founders didn’t know anything about starting companies when they first started. [click to continue…]

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