http://www.stayingpaid.com These days, it's not about getting paid, but about staying paid. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:47:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pick up any newspaper, flip to any news station, hit up Twitter or even stop and talk to your neighbors and you'll hear everything you need to about a recession. As I sat in crush hour traffic, I realized there's a very simple "cure" for business owners worrying a little ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/the-real-item-your-website-needs-to-sell-and-three-steps-to-make-it-happen/ Yes, it's Gregory. Not Greg or Greggy or any of those other nicknames. Well, he does answer to one special name: Daddy. I've said this privately, but I owe all my entrepreneurial drive to those first seeds my father planted in my head. We were watching this beautiful luxury car on ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/a-blog-for-my-father-gregory/ 140 characters is not enough for everything I have to share with you during these little "chats" of ours. However, I don't always have enough content to come here on the blog and start posting. So I figured I'd do a quick mashup of all the things that are way ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/too-long-for-twitter-too-short-for-a-blog-part-one-2am-i-must-be-up-to-something/ I am a woman of niches. I can't help myself -- I'll watch a movie, see a commercial, or even just wander through Google Trends too many times for comfort and go, "I bet there's a product here." My friends have long since given up trying to give me anything ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/the-busiest-week-of-my-life-the-cheerleader-and-the-nichelady-strike-again/ This particular blog post isn't about marketing, in the strictest sense. It's the before-and-after part of marketing. Without being too figurative, this is a conversation about friends. Two of them. Not saying that I have only two friends, but I speak so little of them (while discussing my net-twitter-blog-irc-im people) ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/my-conscience-and-my-cheerleader-the-story-of-friends/ I don't want to hit gurus. While I can't say I know that many "gurus" up close and personal-like, I'm willing to bet that 99% of them are doing this for themselves, their families...you know, standard stuff just on a greater scale. So this "conversation" of ours isn't about them. ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/soul-of-a-marketer-a-post-for-sideline-masters-everywhere/ I realize that I post more on twitter than I do on my own blog. I probably should post more here, and I will -- I got a link today from a blog listing me as one of their top picks for Personal Development, due to my focus on mindset. ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/balancing-mindset-action-image-and-twitter/ The transition from high school to college is both awesome and scary at the same time. I know because I decided to leave everyone and everything and trek 700 some odd miles up the road to Rolla, Missouri and jump head-first into this college thing. Looking back, I wish I ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/the-college-students-guide-to-staying-paid-part-one-first-steps/ Man, I already have 10 posts in the draft folder -- need to start cranking these bad boys out. I had seen something on twitter about sharing "more of yourself" with the audience, and since this blog is about staying paid and creating revenue streams, I figure I'd take a ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/life-update-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Whether I'm out doing the laundry or standing in line at the post office, I find multiple opportunities to go "in the trenches" and talk to people about the one thing they desire: working from home. Their reasons all differ, and I'm deeply moved that I talk to so many ... http://www.stayingpaid.com/8-reasons-why-i-know-you-deserve-to-work-from-home/