More on the theme of doing stuff, vs thinking about doing stuff. Re-discovered this today: About this presentation Bestselling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin outlines a common creative affliction: sabotaging our projects just before we show them to the world. Godin targets our “lizard brain” as the source of these primal doubts, and implores us [...]
Tag Archives: StartUp
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Decision to Change My Career
Recently, I decided to change the direction of my career. Well, not that recently. It’s been brewing for almost 6 months now, probably since I got married last August. Getting married really made me redirect my attention to what I was doing with my life, and I found that I wasn’t as happy with my [...]
The Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup
I finally attended my first Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup last night and it was great! The auditorium was overflowing with people, standing room only. While I am not part of any start-up or internet company, I still felt very energized and inspired by all the cool new products demos I saw. The enthusiasm of [...]
