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“The most important shot in golf is the next one.” – Ben Hogan

Last Friday, a friend and I hit the links. The day began as a conscious decision to peel myself away from the computer to enjoy a beautiful day outdoors, one of our first sub-100 degree days in months. As we hacked our way around the course (and I do mean hacked), I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between a successful golf game and online business success. Just as these 3 attributes are paramount for anybody looking to improve their golf game, the same attributes will also help anyone looking to build their online businesses:

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“I got a hundred dolla bill, y’all!” -Ice Cube

I have “officially” been playing this online business game for a little under two months now. I know what you are thinking – “two months is almost an eternity, Paul. By now, you should have made enough money online to purchase your own island!” Alas, I am here to confess I have yet to make my millions. Actually, I have yet to even make my thousands. Truth be told, I have yet to even make my FIRST thousand.

I’ve heard it said there are a million ways to make a million dollars online. While there may be some truth to this statement, the vast majority of us are just starting out and are primarily concerned with finding ways to make our FIRST dollar online. And though it may seem virtually impossible to jump over that initial hurdle, I’m telling you it’s not only possible, but it’s easier than you think. That’s because I have actually made my first $100 online… Read the rest of this entry »

The Moronic Graduate

Okay, quick story about this picture. This is me on graduation day from the University of Texas (Master’s Sport Management) in 2006. After let’s just say a bit of a rough night (finally stumbled home as the sun was coming up), I shot out of bed at 8:35am realizing that I was supposed to be graduating…in 25 MINUTES! I grabbed my graduation gown which was still in the bag and I was just coherent enough to get it out of said bag when I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to put my arms through the sleeves. Seriously. I slipped my arms through the sleeves only to find them sewn shut at the ends.

So, like any enterprising individual who is so hung over it doesn’t yet hurt, I grabbed the scissors and began to cut open some hand holes. It wasn’t until after I caused a mini-uproar on stage in front of my closest 3,000 friends and their families that I realized the arm slots were already cut…in the SIDES of the gown. Everybody else had nice, flowing sleeves and I looked like I was wearing Larry the Cable Guy’s graduation gown. To this day, my family likes to call me the “dumbest grad school graduate of all-time” (all in good fun, of course). Okay, now back to the review.

It has been a little over a month since my first ever blog post, “I Have Yet to Make a Single Dollar Online and I Just Quit My Job.” Over the course of this last month, I have…moved to a different city (again), moved in with a girl for the first time (it’s okay, she has a ring. It’s not my ring but…just kidding), left a job most people would kill for, and started my own online business with absolutely no past experience or realistic expectations of success. I have also been planning a destination wedding in Jamaica, a co-bachelor party in Vegas, and have been enrolled in two separate mentor / coaching programs. To say the last month has been a whirlwind is a bit of an understatement… Read the rest of this entry »

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore

If you are reading this, chances are you are either already running your own online business and are looking to take it to the next level or you haven’t yet started a business but are very much interested in doing so. Either way, we all struggle from time to time trying to figure out exactly how to get the ball rolling. So what’s the absolute FIRST step you need to take to start a successful online business?

Just jump off the cliff and get started… Read the rest of this entry »

“If you don’t know where you are going, how do you expect to get there?” -Basil S. Walsh

Last night, Rich Schefren called me out. He straight up embarrassed me in front of one hundred other students. I tried shrugging off what he said. I tried pretending he had no idea what he was talking about or who he was talking to. But the pit in my stomach told me that what he was telling me was true – success in this industry will continue to elude me and I am doomed to fail…

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