From the category archives:

Entrepreneurship

Go Forth and Prosper

April 2, 2009

[This is the ninth in a series of posts about entrepreneurship as a way to protect your income in a bad economy.]
In prior posts we’ve talked about ways to build a secondary revenue stream on the Internet. To this point you’ve chosen a healthy market, you’ve selected the products or services you’re going to sell, [...]

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Evaluate Your Market and Find Products to Sell

March 29, 2009

[This is the eighth in a series of posts about entrepreneurship as a way to protect your income in a bad economy.]
Once you’ve identified the markets you think you may want to serve, check to be sure you’ll face healthy competition.
That’s right: You want competition.

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How to Know What Your Market Wants to Buy

March 25, 2009

[This is the seventh in a series of posts about entrepreneurship as a way to protect your income in a bad economy.]
When you’re selling for someone else, you have to sell whatever product or service your company provides. But when you’re working for yourself, you can sell whatever you want. The best things to sell [...]

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Making Money on the Web: Shift from Sales Thinking to Market Thinking

March 20, 2009

[This is the sixth in a series of posts about entrepreneurship as a way to protect your income in a bad economy.]
A prior post listed 13 steps to find your own best way to earn money on the Internet.
If you’re skeptical or wary, as I was, you’re probably thinking each step sounds like a small [...]

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What Does It Take to Earn Serious Money on the Internet?

March 16, 2009

[This is the fifth in a series of posts about entrepreneurship as a way to protect your income in a bad economy.]
Broke 30-Year-Old Solo Entrepreneur Takes His Company from Zero to $10 Million a Year in Five Years
Markus Frind, a 30-year-old internet marketer, works an average of an hour a day and brings in $10 [...]

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What to Expect from Selling on the Internet

March 11, 2009

[The previous post introduced that idea that you can protect your income by selling products or services on the Internet. After outlining a 13-step process for doing that, it ended with three questions:

How would you execute each of the 13 steps?
How much time and money would it take you to do so?
How much money [...]

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How to Protect Your Income by Choosing Your Own Markets and Products

March 8, 2009

[The two preceding posts suggested that you open your mind to entrepreneurship as a way to protect your income against the uncertainties of a full-time job. This post provides more specific ideas for how to do that.]

What entrepreneurial business enables you to avoid all the 21 negatives and achieve all eight of the benefits [...]

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Float Like a Cork on a Stormy Sea

March 7, 2009

[The preceding post urged you to think more like an entrepreneur than an employee. It suggested that you consider starting a business of your own on the side.  The safest time to do that is while you've got a job that pays the bills.]
Has this ever happened to you? No sooner do you tell a [...]

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Sell What People Want to Buy

March 5, 2009

If you’re concerned about the security of your current position or even about the stability of your industry, what should you do? What income source would be safer?

Where else might you make the same kind of money you’ve been earning till recently?

What transition would involve the least pain for you and the people [...]

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How Ready Are You To Weather This Storm?

February 25, 2009

As the global and U.S. economies teeter on the brink of God knows what, sales people are losing jobs in growing numbers. And those who haven’t lost their jobs yet are wondering what they’ll do next if the axe falls on them.

It’s a defensive frame of mind. Some portion of your attention is focused on [...]

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