Category: Entrepreneurship

Overcoming Self Doubt And What It Takes To Make 6 Figures In Ecommerce

Looking back, one of the biggest challenges of starting our ecommerce store was the lack of support. For example in 2007… We had no one to talk to. We had no one…

Entrepreneurship

Every Self Made Millionaire Has This Mindset…Do You?

Are you looking to become wealthy? Do you aspire to be filthy rich? Well chances are you are going about it all wrong. Before you can give yourself a shot at making…

Entrepreneurship

How To Buy An Online Business For Sale And Get The Best Deal

For many people, running an online business is “the dream.” After all, a successful online business can free you up to live the life you want on your own schedule and on…

Entrepreneurship

How To Start A Business With No Money. Here’s Exactly What I’d Do

Contrary to popular belief, it does NOT require a large upfront investment to start a successful online business. What you lack in funds can be made up for with a little ingenuity…

Entrepreneurship

How To Succeed In Business – 8 Rules To Follow For Struggling Entrepreneurs

If you’re a struggling entrepreneur, then this article will provide you with a set of guidelines to follow on how to succeed in business. In fact, these are the exact principles that…

Entrepreneurship

3 Life Lessons On Perseverance, Business Success And Asian Parenting

I always get crazy looks whenever I tell people that I started studying for the SATs in 4th grade. Or when I attended nerd camp in the 7th grade and completed Geometry,…

Entrepreneurship

How To Find A Career Path That Makes You Happy (Without Getting Pressured Into It)

For most of us, our choices in life are heavily influenced by our environment. We are born into a society that tells us how to pick a career path and we’re often…

Entrepreneurship

My Simple Philosophy For Achieving Financial Freedom In 5 Years Or Less

If you ever see me at a casino, you’ll often find me playing cards at the Pai Gow poker table. Now Pai Gow is definitely NOT the sexiest game at the casino,…

Entrepreneurship

Introducing The 5 Minute Pitch – My New Show With Scott Voelker, Greg Mercer And Mike Jackness

It was 11:00PM on a Saturday night in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. My ecommerce conference, the Sellers Summit, had just officially ended and I was hanging out at the closing party with all…

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Why Amazon Sucks For Building A Sustainable Ecommerce Business

You’ve probably heard the popular saying that “if you teach a man to fish, you can feed him for a lifetime”. And if you apply that same saying to business, you get……

Entrepreneurship

12 Things I Learned From Starting Two 7-Figure Lifestyle Businesses

Since my wife became pregnant with our first child in 2007, I’ve created 2 different lifestyle businesses, an ecommerce store selling handkerchiefs and a blog about entrepreneurship. And these businesses were created…

Entrepreneurship

Finding Happiness – 10 Lessons For Entrepreneurs On How To Avoid Depression

Most entrepreneurs will tell you that starting a business is incredibly rewarding and worth the risk. But what they may not reveal is that running a successful business often comes at the…

Entrepreneurship

What Successful Entrepreneurs Do Differently And Why Beginners Fail

In the past 6 years, well over 2700 students have joined my Create A Profitable Online Store course. But I want to be straight up with you. Not every one who has…

Entrepreneurship

Outsourcing Pros And Cons – How To Decide When To Hire Or DIY As A Small Business Owner

After blogging about ecommerce and helping others with their online businesses for the past several years, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend among new entrepreneurs in the small business community. These days, everyone…

Entrepreneurship

Work Life Balance For Small Business Owners

I have a love hate relationship with Facebook. On one hand, Facebook allows me to keep in touch with and keep track of what my friends are up to. But on the…

Entrepreneurship

How To Be More Productive – 8 Simple Habits To Get More Done

Not too long ago, I was working 40 hrs/week as an electrical engineer, running an online store with my wife, writing posts for my blog, putting out a weekly podcast, teaching an…