10 years ago I was very active on Blogger at the time when blogging was the new kid on the block.
I am thinking of making an eBook of some of my different posts so I went on and looked at my stats.
One of my blogs which I have not touched for years but did hundreds of posts on is still getting 5400 hits a month and still getting comments.
I was amazed because I thought there would 0 activity.
This backs up the value of having a blog presence and to keep posting.
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DK
Grant aka drkelp
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen
Geneen has it right which is why he was a titan in the business world. He headed up ATT when it grew to its zenith. Theory doesn't win the fight against pragmatic business experience. That's why it is good to experiment and learn new business skills from doing them.
Inactivity is the big business killer. Couple it with apathy and you are dead in the water.
Every failure is a learning opportunity, every success is an earning moment.
If you don't learn you won't earn.
Be bold and muck in.
DK
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Doing easy things is, well, easy.
The real accomplishment in business comes from doing the challenging work. I have spent today sweating out a new web campaign, it has been frustrating tying everything in.
Doing the video was the hardest part! Actors make it look so easy as do newsreaders, but when it is my dearly beloved and myself (plus a recalcitrant iPad) it has a difficulty level way above normal. Keeping from laughing is a challenge, trying to speak naturally is a challenge, and the technology of course was just playing up.
Still completion brought the afterglow with it.
Go well
DK
As William Gibson, who coined the term “cyberspace”, has said: “The future is already here— it is just unevenly distributed.”
You have the opportunity to apply the future now. Look for the leading edge, adopt and your present will be the future of your competitors.
There is no standing still in business, the environment is fluid and the change is continual. See this as a challenge rather than a threat.
Do something today.
DK
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
It is easy to lose sight of the prime reason we are in business for. To serve our customers. If senior managers and boards stopped playing silly games and power plays the customer would be satisfied and the bottom line would be met.
The bigger the organisation, the bigger the chance of being disconnected from the customer.
Treat your customer like the Boss and watch your business grow.
Ciao
DK
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill
Are you the prod in your business? If you are then you are in the right place. Successful business owners are self starters and do not need to be prodded. Laziness or a lack of self-starting initiative will kill your business.
Winston Churchill was a prod from his youngest days and he accomplished much in his lifetime.
Get up and get going.
Ciao
DK
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
– Jim Rohn
I just found the quote above and it is very true. If you look at the great entrepreneurs most of them were self starting and self taught. Many such as Gates, Branson, Rose, Karp and Zuckerburg dropped out of college or didn't go to college at all. College will help you to understand how the world works now, but only rarely will it teach you about what is to come or what is happening at the fiery leading edge of real innovative thought.
Entrepreneurs are by nature confident in their own abilities and don't need any outside affirmation or degrees to bolster what they do. They just go out and do it.
Taking the formal education route in business (esp. MBA's at Ivy League schools) will leave you burdened with debt that will cripple your ability to be truly innovative. The money spent on formal education could have been diverted into developing your own business or furthering your innovations.
I am not against formal education as I have graduate and post graduate degrees but I have learned more on how to succeed by self education and learning from business projects that stretch my skills and gain me experience.
Formal education will indeed help you to make a living (though many MBA's are struggling to get jobs and pay off debt) but what you learn by yourself may be the pathway to a fortune. Following conventional wisdom will not equip you to handle and think about the next unique, groundbreaking advance.
DK
Anything that turns your expectations of yourself upside down and flip-flops the teacher into a student again is a salutary experience that will force you to reconsider how learning works.
I have recently had this experience of flipping from teacher to pupil when I took an online course run by a new program I have invested in. It was great to be the learner with the usual information asymmetry reversed. I learned heaps and the 21 step course was paced exactly right for maximum information uptake. I will write more about this new program once I have got my first payments through.
DK
