Yesterday I talked about the importance of setting goals and walked through the successes and failures of the goals I set for 2009. I promised I’d give you a look into the goals I’m setting for 2010 and I’d also like to add some more thoughts about breaking down large projects into smaller tasks so you keep moving forward and complete those projects
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I’ve never cared much for resolutions. Within a few weeks you’ve generally given up on them and as the days get further from the New Year an excuse excuse seems to exist for waiting until next year. In the end little changes and you are the person you were in the moments before the calendar changed.
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A few weeks ago a client approached me about designing a new site. I asked the usual questions. What are the goals of the site? How many pages? What will those pages include? Who’s the market for the site? etc. As happens too often there were no answers forthcoming. How does one go about designing a site without any indication of what that site will be about or what it’s purpose will be?
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Last week Boston University student, Joel Tenenbaum was ordered to pay a total of $675,000 to 4 record labels for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs. Two years ago a similar case cost Jammie Thomas $222,000 over 24 songs. In April of this year 4 men were convicted by a Swedish court over copyright infringement due to their connection with The Pirate Bay file sharing site. They were also ordered to pay $36 million in damages to several entertainment companies.
Of course each will be replaced by new names in the coming years. The RIAA may have won some battles, but in the long war over DRM they will surely lose as there are laws that will always supersede the laws of the court, namely the laws of reality. DRM is failure.
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I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
—Robert Kiyosaki
ROI, return on investment. The concept is easy to understand. The first time you heard the term you likely nodded your head in agreement in that sort of way that shows you know how obvious ROI is. But how much have you really taken those three letters and made them part of your business? How much has the ROI mindset been ingrained in you to lead to success in both business and life?
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By nature I’m a cautious person. I wasn’t raised to do the leap before you look thing and most of my decisions in life are measured responses to the information in front of me. In some ways that’s good as it mitigates risk.
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There are many ways to say the same thing, but the words you use make a big difference in the results you get. Here’s a short film that makes the point much better than I could. Enjoy.
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The other day a friend and myself were emailing each other and one topic that came up was whether we were morning or night people. His business requires him to get an early start. He works outside and once the sun sets the work day has to come to an end.
I’ve always been much more of a night person and find I get a lot done after most sane people are long asleep. When I thought about it more I realized it was a certain kind of work I get done late at night and wondered if there was a reason why.
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If you’ve been at all curious about signing up for Teaching Sells now is the time. Brian Clark and Tony Clark are closing the doors to new members at the end of July, a little more than a week from now.
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A few Decembers ago I was feeling the holiday spirit and decided to wish all my clients a happy holiday season. One day after Christmas and before New Year’s I sent each a short, personal email offering some season greetings. It was my first year in business so my client list wasn’t exactly huge and in less than an hour I had sent out some holiday cheer.
A funny thing happened.
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