When something new comes out and you want to tell your friends about it, how do you present it to them? Do you use the press release format to announce the newsworthy event? Do you use an informational article format to explain what it is? Probably not. You likely use stories. You tell your friends […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
How to be an Olympic-level entrepreneur
Later this week, the 2012 Summer Olympics will begin with an opening ceremony. Then, we’ll watch as athletes from around the world compete over two weeks in competitions like wrestling and track and BMX cycling and badminton. (As a Canadian, I’m pleased to see hockey in there, although I’m not sure why it’s included as […]
Learn how to be a freelance writer — Step by step
Every month or two, someone contacts me and asks me how to become a freelance writer. I love it and I’m happy to coach someone along that path. Recently, someone else asked me for some help and as I was replying to them, I thought to myself: “I’ve written this out before… several times”. So […]
Improve your junior resource investing with this tool
Junior resource companies are like the many-headed Hydra: One dies and two more will take its place. Every time I turn around, another junior resource company is proclaiming that it has struck a bonanza-grade deposit of whatever resource it’s exploring for, the deposit goes ALLLL the way down, and they’re neighboring the greatest producing mine […]
The 3 most important skills every entrepreneur MUST master
I periodically assess where I am in my business and how I want to push myself and my business further. (It’s not a formal assessment but rather just a review of what is going well, what isn’t going well and where I need to spend more time.) The same three results keep coming back and, […]