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Oct

31

The Extremely Profitable Work That New Solopreneurs Overlook

October 31st, 2011 by Larry Keltto | Posted in Marketing, Productivity, Time Management

In The Solopreneur Life: 42 Solo-Business Owners Speak the Truth on Dreaming Big, Failing Forward, and Calling Your Own Shots, the solopreneurs talk about mistakes they’ve made with their businesses.

One of the solopreneurs, Ted Prodromu, says, “[My mistake was that] my business was project-based, with little recurring income…Recurring income is a must.”

So, what is recurring income?

Recurring income is revenue that comes in to your business over and over again — it repeats, it reoccurs. Recurring income is like a river — a money river that keeps flowing day after day, month after month. Compare it to one-time income, which is like a puddle of water: it’s here today, gone tomorrow, and the puddle won’t return until you make it rain again.

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Apr

13

The Secret to Solopreneurial Peak Performance

April 13th, 2011 by Larry Keltto | Posted in Time Management

When you’re putting together your calendar for the week or month, what do you schedule first? Is it client meetings? Marketing tasks? Back-of-the-house functions? Personal performance expert Dr. Shannon Reece, offers a surprising answer to the question of what must always come first for solopreneurs.

“When I talk about ordering your priorities, you have to be at the top of the list, no matter what,” she says.

So what does that mean? What does it look like to put yourself first?

Shannon calls it “me time,” and it has to meet three criteria:

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Jan

28

The Valuable Lesson Ernest Hemingway Taught Solopreneurs

January 28th, 2011 by Larry Keltto | Posted in Time Management

In his novels and short stories, Ernest Hemingway often wrote about time management, although he didn’t call it time management.

Hemingway’s routine was to wake at dawn every day and write for the entire morning.

In the afternoon he left his desk, filling his hours with adventure: fishing, swimming, big-game hunting, fighting in wars, womanizing, eating well, drinking plenty, laughing, debating, brawling.

He did not stay in one place. His home was the world: Havana, Paris, Pamplona, Key West, Ketchum.

From what I can remember of my Hemingway studies, his afternoons and evenings weren’t solitary. He surrounded himself with, or was surrounded by, people.

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Oct

13

Are You Sabotaging Your Creative Energy?

October 13th, 2010 by Larry Keltto | Posted in Health, Time Management

This was written by Jen Waak, who pens a monthly health column for The Solopreneur Life.

Jen Waak

I’ve never been much of a 9-to-5’er. My perfect workday would be 10-3 with a two-hour lunch. You think I’m joking–I’m not.

But, as a solopreneur, a three-hour workday is a total joke. Even Tim Ferris knows that isn’t possible.

Our workdays are more like 13 hours, not three. During those 13 hours, our days are typically some mix of client meetings, working on the business (marketing, accounting, sales, and admin), and working in the business (proposals and other deliverables). Many time-management and productivity gurus would say, “Get the important stuff out of the way first to make sure it gets done.” While conceptually I like the idea, I disagree.

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Sep

15

Solopreneurs Will Save Time, Make Money With New Copywriting Book

September 15th, 2010 by Larry Keltto | Posted in Marketing, Time Management

This is a review of Amy Harrison’s new e-book, “Copywriting Phrase-Book: 501 Shortcuts to Compelling Content.”

Why did Amy Harrison create a copywriting product that’s going to put herself out of business? I don’t understand.

Amy is a copywriter based in England. She’s a brilliant writer—the kind of brilliant that tells me I’m in the wrong line of work. Her Web site is one of two that I recommend for copywriting.

Amy has done me and the rest of the copywriting world an enormous favor; she has revealed some of her secrets in a pearl of an e-book titled “Copywriting Phrase-Book: 501 Shortcuts to Compelling Content.” (Affiliate link, read my policy regarding affiliates.)

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Jul

23

How To Fit Social-Media Marketing Into Your Schedule

July 23rd, 2010 by Larry Keltto | Posted in Marketing, Social Media, Software, Time Management

This is a guest post written by online marketing strategist Tommy Walker. We solopreneurs understand the value of social media for our businesses, but we’ve discovered that it can be incredibly time-consuming to do social media well. Tommy has some suggestions and solutions.

Do you ever look at other soloprenuers on social networks and wonder how the heck they accomplish all of the things they do?

If you follow some of the big names in online marketing on Twitter, one thing always seems to stand out: these people are constantly reading, publishing, networking and constantly finding ways to be useful. If you were to watch them in person, surely they would have five computer screens and four keyboards just to keep up with themselves.

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