This past June, I celebrated a very special anniversary: Three years. Three years since I walked into my boss’s office and told him, “No, I do not want to be on the fast track to VP.”Crazy, right?Well, not really…When I’d taken the position as HR manager for a subdivision of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company in 2010, I had been upfront with my hiring manager.I let him know that while
When I published The Coaching Habit, little did I know how big it would be for me. Within a year, my book turned into a Wall Street Journal bestseller, sold nearly 200,000 copies, received more than 500 reviews on Amazon, and maintained the number-one ranking in the business/coaching category for about 95 percent of the year.In this post, I’m going to give you the painstaking details on exactly how I
You can’t put a price on love.At least that’s how the saying goes. And while that may be true, you can still put a price on services that help others findlove.Many have tried it — from matchmakers to dating coaches. After all, as long as people have beating hearts and yearning souls, there’s a market for these products.So before you get too frustrated trying to find your big business idea, consider this:
In 1975, the pet rock sold 1.5 million units at $3.95 a pop. And even though it was a fad that lasted only 6 months, it made the inventor, Gary Dahl, a millionaire overnight.It’s one of those ideas so simple you think, “Man, why couldn’t I have come up with that?!?!”Most people will chalk up the runaway success of the pet rock as luck. But if you go beneath the surface,
When readers subscribe, they know they’re getting everything they need in one email. This comprehensive coverage takes Clark’s service from just a helpful newsletter to a fully fledged business and center for thought leadership.Finding Your Unique Business IdeaWriting has a bad reputation as a poorly paid craft, but that doesn’t have to be the case. More and more writers are finding new and innovative ways to build thriving businesses doing
Raise your hand if you run a coaching business and any of these sound familiar:Coaching is a human-based business. (Unless you’re coaching, I don’t know, rabbits.) And with humans come, you guessed it: human error.That’s where a coaching contract comes in.Contracts are about morethan wrapping your clients up in red tape and telling them what they can’t do. Think of your contract as relationship insurance: it does all the hard,
In 2012, Joyce Akiko landed her dream job right out of college. At least, that’s what she thought. Almost immediately she found out the work wasn’t a good fit.“From the outside looking in, everything seemed to be going great. I was doing what everyone expected me to do, but I wanted more meaningful work and to have an impact with what I did day-to-day.”So during her free time, Joyce taught herself
This is a bulleted FAQ on how to start a business. No joke.If you can think of anything to add, please do so in the comments below. I might be missing things. If you want to argue with me, that’s cool, too. I might be wrong on any of the items below.There are many types of business. Depending on your business, some of these won’t apply. All of these questions come
The first product I sold from my site was a $4.95 ebook called Ramit’s 2007 Guide to Kicking Ass. It’s pretty embarrassing to look at now, but from those modest beginnings I’ve grown IWT into a multi-million dollar business. It’s not magic. It’s math. Now, I’m going to pull back the curtain on how websites make money, using my own and other students’ websites as examples to study so that your own website
About Matteo:A 35-year-old software developer from Amsterdam, Matteo is the founder of iOS Foundations. He wanted to learn how to start an online business because he was tired of spending months and months (and countless hours) developing products that nobody was buying.How he used Zero to Launch:Matteo’s background in computer science lead him to believe “if you build it, they will come.” But, after unsuccessfully launching a business around several apps
