Social Goals & Barcamp Philadelphia 2011

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I’m going to the Philadelphia Barcamp on the 22nd, it’s a loosely organized, technology/entrepreneur mass meetup with educational classes, friendly interaction, and general information sharing.

Should be fun, and it fills my business goal to go to a few networking and business meetups this year.

These social goals may not be hitting revenue numbers, but they’re important to keep you inspired and know where others are at. Great networking too, and usually free food.

They put together a few questions for an “introduce yourself” type survey. I liked it, thought I’d throw it down here for show.

Anyone else going? Anyone else need to fulfill on some social business goals? What are they?

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3 Ways to Improve Your Business by Sharing Your Personal Life

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if you think your business and your personal life should be separate, you’re probably right, but not %100. there’s a balance and a line to be drawn certainly but i believe it’s a little different for everyone and unintelligent to never let people know you’re human after all.

adding personality and personal insight to your business draws people to you, builds trust, likability, and interest. there’s an intriguing psychological game at play though, make sure to keep a few rules and you can use who you are as an advantage to building your business, don’t get personal at all, and you’re subject to how people like the pixels in your logo, get drawn in by your persuasive text, or need what you’re selling for basic life functions. unless you sell toilet paper, it’s to your advantage to have personality.

here’s my experience

i’ve seen sharing who i am invite people i’d never have talked with to ask me more about what i do, and then buy from me. Continue reading →

Use a Scheduler on Your Site (3 Tools Reviewed)

Screen Shot 2011 10 03 at 12.29.12 PM 1024x606 Use a Scheduler on Your Site (3 Tools Reviewed)A quick simple tip and reminder. If you’re doing anything online where you offer people the ability to schedule a meeting, use a scheduler.

It will save you time, it will save you hassle, and streamline communication with whoever is involved.

Regardless of what tool you use, use one. The availability of having a page on my business site to point people to when they give you a “lets chat” or “great, I’m interested” or whatever variation of that you get is a huge freedom and nice big step for automated scheduling. I’ve found different solutions work for different websites or presentations, here are my experiences for your gain and reporting.

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LDP Business Report: Reaching Critical Mass or Business Autopilot (current tools & tactics)

Screen Shot 2011 09 13 at 11.06.55 AM LDP Business Report:  Reaching Critical Mass or Business Autopilot (current tools & tactics)

In case you missed it, I’m keeping secret personal posts on marriage, God, wishes, and other such stuff off the homepage and on a special page you can find by clicking the link at the top called “Personal Posts”

Something amazing has been happening the last two months of online business at IT Arsenal, it’s started to drive itself at times.

The culmination of two years of networking, moving toward a consistent goal and keeping record has started to take effect and despite how busy I’ve been moving and getting married; e-mails, sales, and calls have continued to come in.

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Inspiration Image Feed. Learn From Others About Customers, Success, Design, & Clarity

I’m back from my wedding adventures and ready for action. Back to online business building, reporting on smart living tactics, and freeing up life to accomplish big goals and dreams. I love this stuff, and living it.

Kicking off my return I got a few comments that others appreciated seeing what I’m getting value out of and being inspired by. I make it a point to somehow capture things that make an impact, often times in a picture so I can call them up easily on my iPhone, on a computer or in some slideshow.

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Wedding Hiatus

wedding Wedding HiatusI’m afraid to say updates have been few and far between here, sorry about that. I have a reasonable excuse though!

I’ll be married in 5 short days and the details, planning, and ensuing life changes have given me little time to reflect and write in the past couple months.

Sometimes life needs you to live, then come back later to tell about it.

 

I’ll be back with a vengeance in September to report on the business growth as of late, which has been astonishing – keep putting stuff on the shelf, networking and you’ll eventually hit a wonderful abundance of profitable options. I’ll also be adding a new section to the site called “private posts” where I’ll be adding thoughts on lifestyle design and marriage, and other such personal commentary that I’d like to keep separate from the homepage.

 

I’m off to island hop in Hawaii!

 

Cheers

How to Benefit from Others Wisdom

It’s been a while, progress is hard to slow down and right now life is whipping around at high speeds both personally and for my business adventures.

I’ll be married in a month, but can’t help thinking about all the wisdom I continue to pick as I dip into my ebooks, real books, RSS feeds and the like. I want to share with you how I benefit from others wisdom consistently.

This will be simple and sweet. Continue reading →

Separate Tasks by Focus & Win Milestones

Look a Distraction Design by eecomics Separate Tasks by Focus & Win Milestonesyou can drive and talk at the same time, albeit your precision with each is lessened slightly.  you cannot however cook an omelet and drive at the same time. besides getting the grill in the car, the mental and physical coordination required doesn’t allow you to do both. it’ll get messy fast. seems obvious right?

there’s a more subtle but similar thing happening when attempting certain projects or tasks you’d like to accomplish throughout the day, sitting at your computer. certain high value, big thinking todo’s simply aren’t happening. this has been on my mind a lot lately as i continue to look internally for scaling IT Arsenal’s business while continuing to provide high value. (and subsequently shutting out a lot other inputs/distractions, sorry i’ve been a little less resource heavy in my posts as of late)

i’ve finally realized i am task ignorant. i cannot complete the same tasks everywhere even if it’s physically possible to do so, despite all my will power. this was a tough realization and one others might find useful. Continue reading →

The Three Layers of a Transaction and Finding Automation

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I made the above while trying to help my head through automating the process of selling one of my service oriented products. I hope you find it useful. Perspective on what’s going on is always valuable to me.

It got me back to the concept of automation within my business so I can free time to build up other lacking pieces. Time has been a pretty high priority to me while balancing a quasi flexible 9-5, upcoming wedding, and growing online business. In my head, it plays out like this.

Sweet, I have a surge of purchases, clients and traction, how do I sustain it, and offer more to the growing list of interested people? I need to build more and finish the ideas I started, but where will I find the time?

Side Note: Something I skipped when starting my business I wish I hadn’t was keeping a functional e-mail list of every user I ever came in contact with. I used to perform a service, get paid, and forget that person existed. Now, almost %50 of people I contact 6 months after Continue reading →

The Strangest Secret to Success

A mans life are what his thoughts make of it.

A human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Alter your life by altering your mind.

If we only in cold blood ACT, as if the thing in question were real, then it will become infallibly real.

The above is a life altering piece of audio that puts the perspective of success immediately at reach. Incredibly powerful. Listen to it, you’ll be encouraged, you’ll be educated, but you’ll also gain access to a powerful mindset that seemed completely absent before.

This video/audio was sent to me compliments of Carl from http://www.snorkl.tv/ you rock! I really like it. I think it might miss on mentioning the importance of consistency, and that we all have off days, when we aren’t going to carry around an index card with our “one goal” but the vibe, the content, the impact is awesome.

Income and progress report soon enough! Finish the week strong.

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