Walk the Shoestring Steps With Me This Week: Get OFF Your ASS!

Length: About 700 Words Read Time: 2-3 minutes Content: AWESOME, duh. Greetings Steppers! Today, a perfect business idea. QUICK! Can you think of a product that has no production cost, weighs nothing, takes up very little space, can be delivered around the world with almost zero shipping costs, and once you’ve sold it to one customer… […]

Growing a Small Business: Figure Out YOUR “Why”

Greetings, dear Stepper! Today’s post has: ’bout 1000 AWESOME words (4 min reading time) Some cool pics including one o’ General George Patton, one o’ the inside of my brain :-p Crystal clear wisdom… on GETTING crystal clear… about your small businesses’ growth ON this blog normally I share: how really easy it is to […]

How Easy Is It to Start a Small Business?

In today’s reallly quick, four-minutes-to-read post: A great point about how we overcomplicate business startups by going about it bass-ackwards; How to do it right instead; A feature of some of my very favorite “Bros”; Not one, but THREE ways to test a market BEFORE wasting a buttload of cash developing a product no one wants. Ready? […]

We Need YOU to Ignite Your Passion!

It’s Monday, Step ONE: Get OFF Your ASS day here at Shoestring101… And for today’s post I thought I would remind you of the value of getting off it, and staying off it. Even when it might be more comfortable to sit down. As a budding “Bizness” owner in my teens, the decision I made […]

How to Make Yourself a Marketing Einstein

Word Count: ’bout 900 with lots of pictures Time to read: ’bout three well-invested minutes The Skinny: My new digest for all things marketing. Scroll down to skip the intro and get the goods from Neil Patel, Ana Hoffman, and Nicholas Tart. Anytime someone wants their message to have a little more credibility, it seems […]

3 Ways to Kill Procrastination and Actually Get SOMEthing Done!

My PROMISE: In this post, three surefire ways to get over this procrastination thang… once and for all. If you’re worried about procrastination being a character flaw, consider this: one of the most influential men in the Renaissance,  Leonardo Da Vinci… was a terrible procrastinator. You and me, we might be procrastinators, but least we’re in good […]

“Bizness” is Simple and Easy When You’re Already Making Money

How to Start a “Bizness” – FIRST, Get Proof of Concept So often I talk with folks I meet in coffee shops about what I do… teaching people to become profitable quickly in a small “Bizness” of their own, based on their hobbies or interests… and folks just don’t ‘get it’. They’ll say, “Well don’t […]

Get it OUT THERE!

Today is Monday: Get Off Your Ass day at Shoestring101. SO here’s my quick post for the day, written for my own benefit as much as yours… Quit screwing around. Heh. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most folks […]

You CAN Make Your Own Opportunities… Right NOW!

In today’s post! A short rant about unemployment, followed by some much more positive stuff to put in your head and life instead. Plus a video showing an activity that made me $30 bucks an hour easier than falling off a log. Oh, man. Whew. Thank goodness… I just sidestepped the ‘woe is me monster’ […]