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 [...]
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011 STBS: WordPress for Solopreneurs Part 2-Authority
This is a follow on to the last podcast that focused primarily on building your brand with WordPress. Now that you’ve got your brand going, it’s time to start doing one of the most important part of having a blog – building authority. Although crucial, many blogs ignore this facet of promotion and public relations. [...]
Public Relations Expert Ted Nguyen Interviewed Me!
My interview with PR Guru Ted Nguyen A couple of days ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by one of the most prominent figure in Orange County, public relations expert Ted Nguyen. I recently helped him develop his new WordPress site, and he’s been typing up a storm ever since. A little about [...]
010 STBS: WordPress for Solopreneurs Part I – Branding
Transcript of episode: Click here to read It’s time folks. Time to talk about my favorite tech subject – WordPress. There is a LOT of information out regarding this wonderful platform, but most of it is geared to the beginner that’s trying to blog – or to the coder looking to do crazy things with [...]
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 [...]
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