Help this busy office worker stick to an exercise routine!? Hello everyone! Here's my dilemma. I love exercising, but only when I have unlimited time and there are zero obstacles. Every time I have a flexible schedule--like when I was in grad school--I get into amazing shape. I'm one of these people...

I haven't blogged about the bailout or even the candidates' tax plans because I don't have that strong of an economic background. I took Econ in high school but that was a long time ago. I tend to look at the "big" economic issues based on common sense and s...

Entrepreneurs and discipline are polar opposites like day and night, black and white or yin and yang. Funny enough, despite their obvious differences they actually fit together like a fit to measure glove to a hand. The strange thing is that most entrepreneurs struggle with discipline to the extent ...

June 15, 2008. Do you ever start reading a blog and get really depressed?  So then you go read another one, and you are even more down.  By the fourteenth blog you are almost in tears and ready to shut down the whole business thing?  You are positive that everyone else is succeeding a...

No inventory. That make things much easier. Virtually all of my experience is with large company accounting packages. Quickbooks is typically for the small business owner. I don't have any first hand experience with that particular package, so I can only talk in general terms. Hopefully, the fol...

Here's the advice Seth Godin gave on "Business Partners" in his ebook "the Bootstrapper's Bible" (the ebook is now free under a creative commons license): BEWARE OF SHARED OWNERSHIP (OR, WHY RINGO WAS THE LUCKIEST BEATLE) This section might save you a fortune. It can cert...

Being an entrepreneur sounds so cool to many people who are forced to slave away their days for a boss in the cubicle. These people dream of a life spent working from home, while actively building their wealth without having to answer to anybody else. While the thought of entrepreneurship is one tha...

It all comes down to the partner you choose, and mnore importantly, the mix between you accounting for about 400 differnt variables. That makes partners harder to find, harder to create a productive working realationsip, but also, given we all have weak spots, potentially the best thing you can do i...

Amazing! Just how hard can it be to type google.com on an address bar instead of google in a search engine? What can I say?...

A firewall/router in deny mode will block anything and everything. Unfortunately most routers today like Linksys or D-link are made for home use and are in default allow mode from the inside. I checked the software above. The client has to be installed on each PC. A boot CD can easily defeat this. T...