Imagine a place where all businesses had $0 recurring expense for business related software. A wonderful land where all you had to worry about was convincing clients to pay you for maintenance, and not license fees. Supposedly, Canonical and other Linux-based companies would argue that such a world truly exists. It’s a lie. Okay, I [...]
011 STBS: WordPress for Solopreneurs Part 2-Authority
This is a follow on to the last podcast that focused primarily on building your ...
The Story Behind My 6-Day Business Course
At least one to two times per week, I have friends ask me how to do something business related. The funny thing is, I’ve always been behind the curve in school, I never specialized in anything specific, and always felt that I could never excel at anything – let alone start a business. After returning [...]
How to Save Tons of Money on Web Design
Today, it’s pretty much a given that you need to be on the web. Part of my 6-day email course talks about how insanely cheap it is to host your website and to grab your brand’s domain name. With only a little bit of know how, you can have a great site up and running [...]
Who Else Wants to Fire a Client?
Are you feeling used, abused, and unappreciated? Well, you don’t need to. It’s time to fire a client! When you are a new business owner, you sometimes feel a sense of desperation. You hold on to clients that you would never work with when times are good because you are new and feel as though [...]
009 STBS: How to Easily Add Social Icons to WordPress
Transcript of episode: Click here to read Have you ever been frustrated at trying to add social bookmarking icons to your WordPress blog? Well, you are not alone, trust me. I recently helped a friend of mine, Ted Nguyen build a WordPress website from scratch using a killer WooTheme. Unfortunately, Ted is a real go [...]
008 STBS: Social Networking Doesn’t Work (Alone)
Transcript of episode: Click here to read While at a Tweetup in beautiful Orange County, California, Linked in expert and friend Neal Schaffer asked me about podcasting equipment. I wanted to do a show on networking and how to effectively use social networking with traditional networking, but rather than do the show with my in-studio [...]
007 STBS: Why Your Business Needs Google Apps
Transcript of episode: Click here to read Before I get started, I just want to say that I am a Google Apps reseller (but I’ve used it long before becoming one). However, Google Apps Standard Edition (the free version), is what I recommend to most people. That being said, I truly believe that all small [...]
006 STBS: Power Pricing and How To Price Fairly
Transcript of episode: Click here to read In this episode, I talk about how to price yourself fairly to your clients and how to create a win-win situation for the both of you. Pricing is one of the most difficult steps in the whole business process, not because it’s hard to calculate what you should [...]
005 STBS: Why Your Business Needs a CRM
Transcript of episode: Click here to read It’s getting harder and harder to build meaningful relationships these days. That’s why in this episode we talk about two things: maintaining relationships with clients during tough times, and keeping relationships fresh using a Contact Relationship Manager (CRM). When you are in a large organization, serious problems rarely [...]
004 STBS: Corporate Professional to Entrepreneur with Paul Tran
A So Totally Business Savvy first, I got to interview an amazing entrepreneur and good friend that I met via Twitter, Paul Tran, on how to own your own business. Paul is a serial entrepreneur that has made quite a name for himself in Southern California, as well as nationally. Starting off in retail, moving [...]
003 STBS: The Importance of Communication
More than anything else, public speaking and communication will help launch your career and professional expertise. In this episode I discuss how learning to share information is necessary to build a successful career.
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Specializing in process management and business technology consulting - Dean is constantly tinkering and thinking, so you can focus on what’s important for business owners – growing your company or being there for your growing family.
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