Category Archives: StartUp
About this blog
I realized today that I’ve had this blog for 4 years now, since 2006. And over those years, I’ve found that I’m not a particularly good blogger. I’ma lousy blogger because I don’t update frequently and my content is all over the place – and I’m beginning to realize that the two are related. I [...]
Update on my projects
Besides my full-time job, and I am also always working on several side projects. In the last several weeks, there’ve been two that have been eating up most of my free time: tutoring and honey. My tutoring company, No Excuses Tutoring, has had an unexpected bump in activity recently. I had several web leads that [...]
Data Visualization
With proliferation of websites like FlowingData, and an increasing emphasis on making of otherwise obscure and inaccessible data in my own professional life, I’m thinking about learning more about how to create beautiful custom visualizations. Excel works well for most quick tasks – but how cool would it be to be able to create interactive, colorful charts [...]
Simply Honey
A few weeks ago I had to pleasure of being able to visit Simply Honey, a Colorado bee keeper in Alamosa, and given a personal tour of the honey making operation. Simply Honey’s owner and sole employee is Brent Edelen, a third generation bee keeper. He has between 500 and 600 colonies that he moves [...]
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Inside Sales Analytics, Tracking Daily Activity
As a data geek who’s recently switched careers into sales, I can’t help but think about analytics in my new role as a Lead Gen Rep. To me data is crucial in understanding what’s effective and what’s not. So, I decided to be really diligent about keeping track of everything I do on a daily [...]
Business ideas are cheap
I was talking about startups and business ideas with a co-worker yesterday, and was amused when he suggested that I keep my business idea private because he thought it was a good one. Being secretive with a business idea seems to be the initial gut reaction of most people I meet. The reality of course [...]
Asking for time in a business call
When making a business call, whether it’s cold or warm, I’ve learned to always ask for the person’s time before bothering with whatever I have to say. I find it a professional, and a polite thing to do. But it’s a surprising easy question to mess up. Word Choice For one thing, the words you [...]
Change of direction at No Excuses Tutoring
Check out my post about the change of direction at No Excuses Tutoring.
Email Marketing, without permission
For the last two months, for the first time in my life, I’ve been actively involved in marketing activities of a startup company and one of the main issues I’ve found myself grappling with is email marketing. First, let’s acknowledge that email marketing is really easy: Buy a list of contacts from a vendor Load [...]
