My Interview with Joey Kissimmee

My latest Shoestring101 interview was with Joey Kissimmee of IncomePress.com.  What a breath of fresh air! After just a few minutes of shooting the breeze with Joey I could tell I had met a kindred soul. Back in 2000 Joey decided that he was no longer going to work two, three, four jobs in order […]

Top Ten Ways to Breathe New Life Into Your Business

Okay Steppers, you asked for it, you got it. “How can I generate short term cash in an existing business?” Actually, this is the easiest thing to do– make money in a short period of time– because in an existing business, you already have the most valuable asset a business owner can have…a list of existing customers! […]

How to Do “Top Secret Ninja Marketing”…

Hello again, Steppers! TODAY, a “top secret ninja marketing technique” I learned along the way as I was building a window cleaning company. Let me set the stage a little bit. As you are building a business, you’ll find that the Shoestring101 Steps will take you a long way… at first. Then, somewhere along the […]

Shoestring101 Step THREE: Learn To Create Value

Greetings, Steppers! In this post: Making “something” out of “nothing”…  then selling it for cash! This next Shoestring Step is kind of oddly named:  ‘CREATE’ Value. Now, that’s strange for ME to put in a Five-Step plan to Five Figures per month… because I don’t happen to believe that human beings can create anything at all. […]

Shoestring101 Step TWO: Find Out The W’s

Step TWO: Learn What People Want -or- Find Out The “W’s” Good Morning, Steppers! Wow. So, this seems to be fate. This morning, a guy whose information products I buy sent me an email… asking what kind of product I wanted next. GENIUS! He hasn’t even made the product yet. He just knows that I’ve purchased things […]

BREAKING NEWS: Shoestring 101 RELAUNCH

Step One: Get Off Your YOU KNOW WHAT! Word Count: about 550 Read Time: about 3 minutes or less Greetings Steppers! Well, It’s official. I’m re-launching this site/blog/thingie I started over a year ago, to let the world know how to start a business on a shoestring. The site ITSELF is on a shoestring, so I’m practicing […]