Archive for March, 2009

I told you the other day some Tips for Publishing on Kindle. I’m glad to tell you that today, I’ve already sold my first book on Kindle! Woo hoo! I’ve got another project still being “published” after the 72 hours they say it takes to publish something. I have no idea why. Perhaps it’s too [...]

How free are you? How much does the government intrude into your life? A new report measures the relative freedom available to people in all 50 states. You can read it here. Of course there are trade offs. You could live with near absolute freedom in some ways in Alaska. But how would you make [...]

Check out The Rise of the Underground Economy. Bottom line? This is what they really would say if they were honest – 1. Economists looked down on the unregulated, unlicensed markets of the world because they worked at state funded institutions and regulated markets, essentially, paid their salaries. Unregulated markets know economists and weather forecasters [...]

When you think about businesses built on camraderie, I personally think of the TV Show “Cheers”… people gathered in one of those “third places” to fellowship, have fun, and enjoy things like “the game” on TV. If you have a small business could it become a “Third Place”? Good question. What would you need? Commercial [...]

There’s a sudden interest in gardening these days… and as a result people are wondering if they can turn their gardening aspirations into a gardening business. Perhaps you can relate to this. Probably one of the most enjoyable thing for gardeners is watching new plants grow. I love it when one of my plants I [...]

I published a test book on Kindle last night. It was one I bought reprint rights for. I published a second one that I personally wrote today. Sure, it’s easy to publish Private Label Rights books on Kindle and hopefully make some money, but the problem is that too many people are putting up the [...]

Moody’s is a bond rating outfit. Their ratings determine the relative ability of companies to repay debt. In common parlance, whether the company’s bonds are “junk” and, if junk, “how bad”? This is their bottom tier of companies. These are the ones looking shaky in other words. If they’re headed by entrepreneurs, they could make [...]

The Kauffman foundation helps encourage today’s generation of young entrepreneurs. Through activities like EntrepreneurshipWeek USA, the foundation helped focus the nations attention on entrepreneurship among folks soon to enter the “labor force” with the challenge to dream big – and then work to tackle that dream. The goal behind the foundation’s attention on young entrepreneurship [...]

Publishing your first book on Kindle is easier than you might think! How do I know? I published my first book on Kindle last night in just a few hours and it was easier than I thought. Of course most of the books on Kindle are from traditional publishers. These Kindle books are just the [...]

I actually think I called this guy! (click the image to see it full sized!)