• Days 5 and 6 The Road to Profit for My Virtual Pet Store

    Days Five and Six Although this may not sound like a lot of money right now,  keep in mind this is the first week of operations.   I also can outsource the entire process if I wanted to while I sit at home, lay on the beach or enjoy a cocktail… It is also…

  • Virtual Pet Store – Road to Profitability – Days 3 and 4

    Days Three and Four Posts you may also be interested in: WouldIBuyIt? UrbanMen.co – Urban Men’s Clothing Ecommerce Site for Sale Would I Buy It? RetirementCalculators.org Please note all activity was as of  9/17/2016  @ 16:30 Time Left To Profit [wpdevart_countdown text_for_day=”Days” text_for_hour=”Hours” text_for_minut=”Minutes” text_for_second=”Seconds” countdown_end_type=”time” end_date=”14-09-2016 23:59″ start_time=”1473883530″ end_time=”10,1,1″ action_end_time=”hide” content_position=”center” top_ditance=”10″ bottom_distance=”10″…

  • Day 2 – Road to Profitability – Checking Stats and Tweaking

    Day Two Time Left To Profit [wpdevart_countdown text_for_day=”Days” text_for_hour=”Hours” text_for_minut=”Minutes” text_for_second=”Seconds” countdown_end_type=”time” end_date=”14-09-2016 23:59″ start_time=”1473883530″ end_time=”10,1,1″ action_end_time=”hide” content_position=”center” top_ditance=”10″ bottom_distance=”10″ ][/wpdevart_countdown] Sales 9/15/2016 @ 16:31   $0.00 Expenses 9/15/2016 @ 16:31   $26.07 Profit as of 9/15/2016 @ 16:31  -26.07 Profit Goal:  $4250/month I reduced the profit goal to match the one I did a review of…

  • Day One – Road to Profitability – Getting Customers

    Day One Time Left To Profit [wpdevart_countdown text_for_day=”Days” text_for_hour=”Hours” text_for_minut=”Minutes” text_for_second=”Seconds” countdown_end_type=”time” end_date=”14-09-2016 23:59″ start_time=”1473883530″ end_time=”10,1,1″ action_end_time=”hide” content_position=”center” top_ditance=”10″ bottom_distance=”10″ ][/wpdevart_countdown] Profit as of 9/14/2016 @ 14:06  -4.07 Profit Goal:  $4250/month Long Term Goal:   Sell within 12 Months after reaching profitability. This is Day One of my journey with StoreYa to get customers…

  • Building Stores Online is Easy – Getting People to Shop – A lot More Difficult

    You can build stores online all day long… it’s easy enough. The hard part is getting people to shop and purchase from you. Today I am trying something different with a store I just created.   I actually did something I never do,  host on a platform other than WordPress and NOT use my…

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  • Traveling the World on a Budget – Berlin , Germany

    I’m very analytical on everything I do…   so it’s no surprise that when I travel,  I try to get the most for my money.  After all,  the extra money I am giving to the airlines could be working to make me additional money on my marketing endeavors…. Yes,  everything unfortunately has a cost.…

  • How do you let go of drama? – Ram Dass

    Don’t treat yourself so gingerly; you can let go of stuff. Sometimes it takes three breaths instead of two to do it, but you can do it. Be a little tougher and don’t cling to stuff. People go around carrying everybody’s stuff all of the time. I just pick it up and put it…

  • WouldIBuyIt: UrbanMen.co – Urban Men’s Clothing Ecommerce Site for Sale

    Update 9/10/2016 @ 16:57 As promised I’m revealing the website that I analyzed for purchase.   You can see what it went for below: UrbanMen.co Auction Was this a good deal?   YES!!!  For the buyer AND the seller since the seller basically found a niche to sell in, built the site, advertised and…

  • Why Empathy is the Key to Success in Business

    When You give more than you take, you’ve got leverage forever. Think about it. (sic) Gary Vaynerchuck   No, I do not mean letting people walk all over you, quite the opposite actually. Give people something to lose. If they do not have anything to lose, they WILL take advantage and exploit your business or even…