Thriving artists are entrepreneurs. This isn’t something new that is made possible only by the Internet. Looking closely at the most well-known artists today, you start to realize they were not the lone geniuses sitting in a studio creating their masterpieces. In reading Jeff Goins’s Real Artists Don’t Starve, you start to see example after…
Archives for June 2017
Reducing Churn Rate: A Key Question to Ask Your Customers
What is the most important question to ask recurring users of your product to make sure they stay? (In other words, how do you reduce the churn rate of users of your product?) Sean Ellis revealed the most important question you can ask your customers to reduce churn on a recent interview with Mitch Joel…
Creative Blocks
“I have never had a creative idea or an ah-ha moment sitting at my laptop.” That is what Jason Zook said on his Invisible Office Hours podcast with Paul Jarvis. Zook and Jarvis are both well-known online entrepreneurs. The laptop is key to their success. They know, however, that the way to find creative ideas…
How to Be a Writer: 3 Lessons I Learned from Jeff Cavins
I always wanted to be a writer and speaker. It took me awhile to realize how to actually become one. Now the challenge is becoming a really good one. Jeff Cavins is a writer and a speaker and he is good–really good. He is very well known among the people I write for and speak…
3 Parenting Lessons I Learned from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
“Four girls? Ha, wait until their teenagers. Poor guy.” I hear some version of this message every single time I go out in public with my girls. Every. Single. Time. The thing is, I don’t buy it. Call me naive, but there’s got to be another way. My girls will be up against a lot…
