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Captain Goes To Asia

I know posting has been a bit light the past few weeks by yours truly, but some developments have taken place in that place outside of the box on my desk that were demanding my attention.
I’m super excited to announce that I have taken a position with a company called the American Bureau of Shipping [...]

Price Wars are Dangerous

I saw this while driving today and couldn’t help but start thinking about how destructive it can be to create a product that is often bought soley on price.
If you compete on price you better come ready to play, because the big boys will and it’s a lot easier for Wal-Mart to offer a lower [...]

The Single Biggest Tip I Can Give Squidoo Lensmasters

Learn. Work. Scale. Repeat.
Small words, big meaning. People get caught up a lot in ‘Squidoo is going to make me rich’ or ‘my blogs are going to make me rich’ or ‘my favorite GPT site / survey / ebook is going to make me rich’.
So far I’ve only found one thing that really set me [...]

Making Money In Pebbles, Rocks, and Sand

I’ve found that there are three basic levels or types of income you seem to generate when you start out trying to make a few bucks, online or off. I’ve come to think of them loosely as ‘pebbles, rocks, and sand’. If you imagine a jar that, when full, will earn you as much money [...]

Weekly Squidoo News in Review – Monthly Wrap Up

Since this is the last Squidoo News edition of the month, I thought I’d wrap up some of the exciting new additions to the world of Squidoo in February. As the end of the month draws near, make sure you spruce up your lenses one last time for that April payout!
I received a mention in [...]

Squidoo in 2006

Two years ago this month, Squidoo looked like this:

Courtesy of WayBackMachine
If you click through, you can browse around the squidoo of early ‘06 a bit. Sometimes it’s good to look back on where things were in order to see how far you have come. More lenses have been built in the last 2 weeks than [...]