Last week our city was inundated with three months rain over a few hours, hailstones the size of golf balls and bigger, flooding in some areas and part of a hill slid down into ground floor appartments. We were comparatively well off. My husband’s shift work had him home a couple of hours before the [...]
What is important in life? I know this varies very much from person to person. I used to take people through a course where one of the tasks was to identify our core personal values and to put them in an hierarchy. As usual I reviewed mine prior to the exercise and happened to discuss [...]
I have just heard another mentor say to me that success is not about finding exactly the right niche in life and working hard at it. It is a matter of trying lots and failing fast. The first person I heard this from had his own insight when he was training to be an architect [...]
Choosing a niche is one of the first steps for a budding internet marketing entrepreneur. It sounds easy when the trainers say it. Choose something you are passionate about. Choose something that you know about from work. Choose something you like to do – one of your hobbies or interests. Well what do you do [...]
Mostly our lives go on from day to day in very predictable ways. Then on occasions it becomes startlingly obvious that things are going to change. It might be that someone you love gets a terminal diagnosis. Or it might be that your job comes to an end. Or one of your children has a [...]
I am still slightly tainted with the social cultural cringe that is prevalent in my social circle when it comes to selling on line – but only on the odd occasion. Owning one’s own store or educational institution doesn’t have the same cringe factor when it comes to making a profit. But selling online is [...]
I listened to an interview between Jonathan Gunson of Traffic Cafe dot com and Frank Garon that I found very helpful. Towards the end Garon suggested we needed to know what we were about, what we wanted from our business. He acknowledged that of course we wanted to make money, but beyond that how did [...]