How to Turn Your Solopreneurial Dream into Reality

Fed up of corporate world? Getting fired? Want to turn your passion into a real business? For whatever reasons you may have, solopreneurship often comes up as an answer. However, here’s the cold, hard truth. It’s not for everyone. Some who have embarked in to the journey were giving up and went back into the corporate world. The blog post you are reading right now is my attempt to help you turn your dream into reality. Okay, let’s do it, shall we?…

Why Employee Theft Sucks and How to Deal with It

Employee theft sucks. Small business owners all over the world know it. It’s inevitable. But there’s gotta be a way to minimize that, no? Fortunately, yes. Read on to learn what it takes to prevent employee theft. Okay, you might say, “Oh – I know about employees who steal from their employers. But my employees? Nah – they wouldn’t do it.” The truth is – whether you like it or not – most of your employees will steal from you, varies greatly in amount stolen.…

Warning: Giving Up Today Will Lose You a Successful Business Tomorrow

Don’t give up! To some that sentence will boost morale; but to some others those meant nothing. If you are about to give up on your business and entrepreneurial journey, read this blog post first before you decide on anything! I involved in online business, and I do know that some of my fellow web business owners give up and sell all the web properties they have. They end up finding a job to pay the bills and live from paycheck to paycheck.…

Hate Reading Business Books? Read These 5 ChangeThis Manifestos, Instead!

I personally don’t like to read. I have a short attention span, and a 100-page book will bore me regardless of the quality. Typically, 10-20 pages of e-book still grab my attention – of course, it must be engaging. That’s why I love to read good blogs. Posts containing short paragraphs, non or semi-formal language and highly opinionated ones are my favorite. However, I do have some exceptions with regard to books, printed or digital – it’s called manifestos. There are some manifestos that I just can’t get enough, and my one and only go-to place for them is ChangeThis.…

Dealing with The Deadly “What do You do?” Question: Do You Have an Elevator Pitch Ready?

Here’s a confession to you: I was always having a hard time explaining what I do for a living. It’s not that I am doing something extraordinary; the truth is, it’s often difficult to explain the tech stuffs I do to non-techie… then it hit me: I didn’t really have an elevator pitch! When someone is asking me my line of work, I answered them with a short 2 to 3 seconds of “ummm… well…” … then I blurb some silly stuff trying to explain what my business is all about.…

Top 10 Inbound Marketing eBooks from HubSpot

I never really explore deeper about Inbound Marketing, although I have heard the term numerous times in the past. However, as I learn the concept more, I’m becoming addicted to Inbound Marketing… especially after SEO and Link Building disappoint me in 2012. SEO was pretty cool, but Inbound Marketing is even cooler You see, I was a keen learner of SEO. I am intrigued by how a particular web page can rank high on search engine; as I am interested in everything small business, I am intrigued by the fact that some small business sites’ pages rank higher than those of big names, such as Entrepreneur.com…

New Domain Name Extensions: Big Branding Opportunities for Small Business?

Domain name business is huge – just ask Name.com, GoDaddy.com, Namecheap.com and any other accredited domain name registrars. ICANN, the governing body responsible for coordination of domain name system and some other Internet systems, has initiated the new gTLDs program, which purpose is to introduce literally hundreds of new domain name extensions for the general public to register. As we who deal with everything Internet know it, a domain name is the foundation of your small business online presence. Unfortunately, some business owners are just being ignorant, choosing whatever domain names come up, thinking that those dot-coms or dot-whatever are just ‘cosmetics.’…

Cat Cafe: Happy Cats, Happy Customers, and Happy Owner!

Do you love cats? What do you think about a unique business idea that can allows you to run a one-of-a-kind cafe while providing a home for cats and a place for pet lovers to mingle with them? Sounds cool? Check out what startup Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium has got to offer… Who doesn’t love cats? I mean, although you don’t like to have a cat as a pet, at least you’d enjoy watching funny cat videos, viewing kitten images and so on.…

How to Get Your New Year’s Resolution Past the First Week of January 2013

Okay – let’s face it. Most of us are men of “promises.” Not that we keep our promises well, though… we promises to do many things, yet so little has been achieved, due to one reason or another. Mainly procrastination and lack of passion, the next major cause of your breaking-apart New Year’s resolution is due to the unrealistic goals and the lack of plans you have set to pursue in 2013. I consider my New Year’s Resolution as my to-do list.…

5 Ways to Boost Your Business Blog’s Traffic and Income in 2013

We are approaching the New Year and the best way to start 2013 is by having a New Year resolution. If you are running business blogs and want to start 2013 strong, this blog post can suggest you a New Year resolution for your business blog. As a business blog owner, my daily “battle” consists of three things: How to provide quality tips and advice for readers, how to increase traffic while reducing dependency to Google and how to increase income without sacrificing user experience.…