Blogging

What Is Your Blogging MVP?

If you’ve been hanging out in the Internet and tech startup community for some time, you may have come across the acronym “MVP.” While this typically stands for Most Valuable Player in the context of sports, it stands for something else entirely in the business world: Minimum Viable Product. Minimum Viable Product The basic idea behind the MVP goes a […]

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Dot Com Lifestyle

Working, Identity and Self-Worth

If you want to be normal, if you want to be like everybody else, then of course you’d want to do like everybody else too. But we also have to recognize that “normal” is just another word for “average,” and striking it on your own with dreams of achieving the dot com lifestyle is hardly the “normal” thing to do. […]

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Uncategorized

The Four Spending Tracks, Which One Are You On?

I recently received an email asking how much I spend per month on the dot com lifestyle. I figure I would use the email as a post on personal spending and money management. It’s great to make the big bucks, but if you don’t know what to do with it, then you’re no better off than the poor guy on […]

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The Net

How to Plan YouTube Video Topics with TubeBuddy

One of my favorite YouTubers once proclaimed that the mantra for her channel is, “One for them, one for me.” The philosophy is meant to balance the needs of growing and maintaining a successful YouTube presence, while simultaneously keeping it fun and engaging for her. Focusing solely on what “they” want is a fast path to burnout, but focusing exclusively […]

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Business The Net Wordpress

How to Drastically Improve Your Post-Holiday Customer Retention Rate

The holiday season is the most profitable time of the year for businesses all over the world. Statistics from Black Friday and Cyber Monday show that consumers are spending more money online than ever before. Cumulative online sales from November 1st to December 2nd reached an all-time high of 81.5 billion dollars! If you’re a business owner, you likely received […]

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