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I recently had the privilege of previewing Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek, the soon-to-be monster on the best-selling lists. This book has tons of solid information on how to completely transform the way you think about work. From the top down. The 4-Hour Workweek‘s main premise is this: You can do more, by doing less. ...

With all of the startups as of late, it seems like everyone is making a “clone” of something already in existence. Like a “MySpace clone” or a “Digg clone”. Why? Because these sites have proven that they have the formula for attracting visitors and making some serious coin. Unfortunately for these entrepreneurs, they’re not going ...

Earlier this week I was contacted by the guys at BlueTie to check out their ad-free web-based email and calendar collaboration solution for businesses. It’s a pretty slick thing, especially since their free accounts don’t have any ads. Anywho, I struck up a conversation with Martin Edic (his official title is “Manager, Marketing Communications and ...

Well, first of all, I’d like to apologize to everyone for the lack of posting lately. I’ve been preparing to launch a new site, and consequently my time to post anything worthy has been greatly diminished. Regardless, you can bet I’ll be stepping up the posting output back to my initial rate of around one ...

Technology has had a huge effect on how we live and work. What used to take a whole day to get a response from a client, boss or co-worker now can be nearly instantaneous via IM, cell phones and email. The rate of how fast we can reply has increased dramatically thanks to these new ...

The third part of this Avoiding Entrepreneur Burnout series deals with resting. Yay! The funny thing about rest is that most people don’t see the benefits, even though they know the negative effects of not getting enough. And it’s real easy to blame just about everything on being tired. That’s why we’ve got all sorts ...

A lot of people have the misconception that taking a break is lazy. It’s not! We learned yesterday that in order to be really effective, you need fun things in your day or else you’ll burnout. Well, you’ll also burn the people out around you if you don’t take care of yourself and your family ...

If you’re like me, you see opportunities everywhere. You find limitless ways to improve on things, or you’ll have an idea dump and before you know it, you’ve got 5 projects cooking in the skillet, 2 in the oven and about 10 on the backburner. Congratulations, you’re an entrepreneur. Us entreprenueurs are blessed with a ...

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