Category: Advice

 

I am going to start a new series of blog posts titled “Business Cheat Sheets”. Each cheat sheet will contain practical tips, advice and how-to’s on a key area of business. Download the Starting Up Your Company PDF here. For my first business cheat sheet, I will be giving some advice on getting started with a new business.… read more “Business Cheat Sheets: Starting Up Your Company”

I did some research this morning on car accident risk factors and cause statistics.  There are several factors that all interplay with each other – basically if you do one, you increase your rate of car accidents but if you do two you multiply your risk levels of getting into a car accident.

The car accident risk factors to be most aware of are:

• Alcohol consumption
• Being under 25 years old
• Speeding
• Distracted driving (phone call, texting, people in car, GPS, radio)
• Running a red light or stop sign
• Driving at night

Mechanical factors include:

• Vehicle defects
• Potholes
• Ice or snow
• Tire blowouts
• Fog

Frida just got back from dog training and she is much skinnier than when she left. She came back at about 16 pounds and when she left she was 19 pounds. This is the equivalent of a 190 pound person losing 30 pounds in 8 weeks… weird. I am surprised the trainers didn’t feed her a LOT more.… read more “Frida’s Dog Training”

I have been involved in a number of very frustrating negotiations lately:

• I worked with a business to sublease their office space and provided forward in the best intents. They ended up pulling the rug out from under me when a bigger tenant came by… but first they led me on for a month and a half.

… read more “Frustrating Negotiations”

1. Udacity.com – limited number of classes but they have the best platform and the best put together lessons.
2. Codecademy.com – also a limited number of classes but solid platform and good hands on learning.
3. Ocw.mit.edu – MIT’s open courseware has tons of courses but since they are just videos of the courses taught to students it doesnt work very well.

… read more “Top 3 Ranking of Online Education Providers”

I bought a little remote control helicopter for $25 and I am in love with it! Super fun toy.  I highly recommend buying one for the youngster (or young at heart!) of your choice.

Fake fraudster Benny Hinn is at it again – the same guy who predicted the end of the world in 1992 and 1999, as well as the death of Fidel Castro in the 90’s – is now back on the road putting on more of his scandalously fake shows.  Benny Hinn is a megachurch televangelist “faith healer”.… read more “Benny Hinn – Scandal, Fake, Scam Artist & Fraud”

Are you wondering why you have submitted your resume for over 300 positions but received only a handful of calls back and still have yet to find your dream job?

I am about to give you the insider secrets from a recruiter who has hired many people on how to write a resume that will get you calls back.… read more “How to Write A Resume – 7 Tips By a Hiring Manager”

1. Write about tips or techniques that would be helpful to others
2. Share your opinions on something: sports, religion, politics, business
3. Write about your current life and events
4. Describe your current workouts and physical activities
5. Interview interesting people
6. Share your biggest ideas for changing the world
7. Find something unique about your life and write about it
8. Discuss whether a blogger should publish personally unflattering photos
9. Write about something that makes you excited or angry 
10. Post your ideas for blog post ideas
11. Create a top 10 list
12. Write a how to document
13. Post photos
14. Do a link roundup of the most interesting stuff on the web in the last day/week/month/year
15. Write about current events in the news
16. Post polls for people to vote on something
17. Run a contest
18. Post your favorite quotes
19. Post videos that are interesting
20. Have someone else write a guest post for your blog
21. Write a debate and post it to your site – point, counterpoint
22. Answer reader questions or comments from previous blog posts
23. Use the Google AdWords External Keyword tool (search for it) to see what people search for most frequently
24. Use Google alerts to get notices about new topics and discussions in your industry
25. Publish an in depth case study on a specific topic
26. Look at your competitors blog topics (even if you are only competing with other music blogs!)

… read more “40 Blog Post Ideas to Beat Writers Block”