If you’re looking for unique ways to use Facebook to generate new business, today you hit the right blog. I haven’t posted in SS101 for about four and a half months (and I’m SOOO SOoorryy!) but I think this post will be worth the wait. Actually, the subject of the post is why I’ve been […]
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5 Steps to YOUR Killer USP (Unique Selling Proposition)
In today’s post we look at the all-important USP: Unique Selling Proposition. Also, how you can develop your USP to reach out telepathically into the minds of your customers and just like in the movie Inception… and give ’em an idea that they think is theirs. BTW, the idea you’re planting in your target’s minds is that they call […]
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Top Five Posts on SS101 to Start or Grow Your Business
Hello, Steppers! Today’s post is all about… ME! Haha just kidding. It’s about you and wherever you are in your entrepreneurial journey. I’ve gathered together some of the most helpful material for entrereneurs, yet produced by yers truly. Not everything I write is pure gold. But every once in a while I get something write (er, RIGHT) […]
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Results of my Most Recent 30 Day, Thousand Dollar Challenge
If you were following Shoestring101 in January, you know that I did another 30 Day, Thousand Dollar Challenge. In case you’re tuning in late to this channel, I’ve been able to start a number of small businesses with no capital. Or less capital than you might take from the first hour of a garage sale (hence […]
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How to Get What You Want
If you could be sure of success– if you knew that whatever you attempted to do would not fail– what would you try to accomplish in the next 30 days? Today’s post is about getting off your ass. 30 Days, Zero Capital to One Thousand Dollars Challenge I’m right in the middle of a 30 […]
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20 Days into the 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge
Hello Steppers! Today’s post: an update on where I am in the latest 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge. Toward the end of 2014, I sent out a series of emails and a coupla blog posts saying that I would again take a Challenge to start a side business with NO CAPITAL… then grow it into a side […]
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Use Fiverr to Validate Your Small Business Idea
This just in: “market research” shows that Readers of Shoestring 101 are more intelligent and overall attractive. HEYA GORGEOUS! 😉 Validate Your Business Idea: WHY and HOW Today’s post is about how to throw your idea out there for an internet biz, then “VALIDATE” it to see if it has real merit. Also, an update […]
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Business Automation: Use Checklists and Procedures to Replace Yourself
Hello, Steppers! Today: How to effectively replace yourself (read: have more free time to work ON your business instead of IN your business)… and a chance for YOU to win $101 in the next 30 day, $1,000 challenge. First off, a quick apology: in my last post here “The Most Awesome Paradox… Doing LESS Can Accomplish […]
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The Most AWESOME Paradox… Doing Less Can Accomplish MORE
Howdy Steppers! A paradox of work, time, and money is that by working too much, you often actually profit less. In today’s post: how to make more money by working less (whew!), and working on the right things. The MAGIC of Shoestring Step Five: Now WRITE Everything DOWN All I have to say to Tim Ferris is, “Four-Hour Workweek? […]
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How to Validate Your Business Idea on Craiglist
Making money on Craigslist. Yes it does take hustle, but as I tell folks here on my blog, it ONLY takes two other things to be in business: 1) access to a thing (or thingS) of value and 2) a way to communicate to people that value that thing. And Craigslist can provide you with […]
