Archive for the 'Learn from Others' Category

Don’t Be Affraid Of Mistakes

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

We all make mistakes. Some are bigger, some are smaller. Some have a huge effect on our lives (business or personal) some only slightly touch us and we’ll forget about them by tomorrow.
Any way you look at it, mistakes are unavoidable in the real world. The only way you can protect yourself against them [...]

The Key-Word in “Work At Home”: WORK

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

For the past about three and a half years I have been involved with a few work at home opportunities. None of them worked out for me. I was so mad at wasting my time (and in some instances my money) that, soon after each one “failed” I was calling them scams. I am not [...]

Original Ideas Get The Best Results

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Important: Apparently I was wrong in using Mack as my starting point for this post - please read his comment. However, I still stand by my point that originality in your business endeavours is the one that can bring you the best results.
Yesterday I decided to join The Z-List. As Maki and Becky pointed out [...]

Don’t Let Impatience Drag You Down

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

I should probably follow my own advice more often.
Here’s the deal: I’m a very impatient person. It’s been a problem of mine my entire life. It affects both my personal and professional life. I have a hard time at keeping it going if I don’t see immediate results. I’ve come a long way, [...]

If It’s Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is!

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

It’s one of my motto’s in life. And almost all the time I see around me examples that strengthen my belief in it. The last one belongs to Adnan. If you want to find out the details read his post Case Study: RSS Scraping.
It’s not my intention to rewrite his own experience. I just want [...]

Use Little Things to Make Your Customers Comfortable

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

SouthWest Airlines - funny little guys.
I’m not much of a flyer (twice in my life). One of them was a couple of weeks ago. I flew SouthWest to Florida.
A few odd things (as I thought at the beginning) happened. First the three flight attendants seemed as if they were on vacation (doing their job, but [...]

Google Changes TOS Yet One More Time

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Before you know it, it will be all over the net: Google changed it’s TOS yet one more time. And God forbid things are getting any easier for us.
So what is it this time:
Basically, you can’t run (on any page of your web site) AdSense ads that can be mistaken with other ads, whether from [...]