Procrastinating Entrepreneur

Removing barriers to permission

brett — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:05:57 +0000

Making it difficult for visitors to your web site to contact you is a sure-fire method of creating additional barriers to building lasting permission-based relationships.

Small business seminar – getting more from your website

brett — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:11:07 +0000

I’m doing my latest small business seminar on September 23, 2009 at 7:00pm at the Coffee Office in Burlington. The seminar will present some simple ideas that you can implement today in order to get more value from your current small business website. Space is limited, so if you’re in the area and want to [...]

Six Pixels of Separation: Review

brett — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:34:16 +0000

Mitch Joel's new book - Six Pixels of Separation is your playbook for today's Internet. Study it and translate Mitch's ideas to fit your business.

Making some real progress

brett — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:18:37 +0000

A while back I subscribed to Chris Guthrie’s blog, and always found it to be a good read. Not sure exactly why I removed his site from my RSS reader but I stumbled across a post of his recently that really got me thinking. In the article, he talks about wanting to be successful and [...]

Getting back on track

brett — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:57:07 +0000

I have been a fan of 43Folders for quite some time now and a few weeks ago Merlin was kind enough to make the audio of a presentation that he and John Gruber made at this year’s SxSW conference. Being a fan of Merlin’s site, I download the podcast to my iPhone and was eager [...]

Looking for some inspiration?

brett — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:00:55 +0000

Winters can be tough…I know that, but for some reason this one just seems to be a little bit tougher than the last few, wouldn’t you agree? Don’t get me wrong, I am happy with the progress I am making with regards to my own business, but I just keep having this nagging feeling that [...]

Starting a small business: Work on your business, not for it

brett — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:51:11 +0000

After a particularly rough week (I’ve been sick with a bad sinus cold, and on top of that, I’ve had numerous technical glitches in my business) I came to the realization that even though I have read all Michael Gerber’s books, and am a huge fan of the E-Myth I too have fallen victim to [...]

What Would Google Do?

brett — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:59:11 +0000

I’ve mentioned several times how much I value Seth Godin’s opinion, and based on that I decided to pick up Jeff Jarvis’s book, “What would Google do” and I really enjoyed it. Basically the book is split into two parts, the first discusses the “Google rules”, and the second part talks about what different industries [...]

A great post about goals

brett — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:56:22 +0000

I love Seth Godin…his posts are short and get to the point! His latest about goals didn’t disappoint.

Never pass on an idea

brett — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:09:12 +0000

True story – what seems to be many years ago now, a good friend of mine, we’ll call him L and I were sitting in a local pub talking about life in general over a few of our favourite adult beverages when the topic of music game up. Now for the two of us discussing [...]