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The Best of The Solopreneur Life Blog

Gregory Rouse • December 11, 2014

I n the midst of moving TheSolopreneurLife.com to the Rainmaker platform, I spent time in the The Solopreneur Life’s basement, sifting through the site’s archive of more than 400 posts.

I was searching for the best ones. Here they are.

The Big Picture

How to Choose Work That Will Continue to Motivate You

What Is the Definition of Success for You and Your Life?

What Will You Do When Your Passion Disappears?

Blogging/WordPress

How I Improved My WordPress Website’s Speed by 60 Percent

Collaboration and Partnership

Go Your Own Way? Musings on Fleetwood Mac, Collaboration, and Solopreneurship

Should Your Solo Become a Duet?

Creativity

How to Get Into an Innovation Mindset

The Morning Pages: A Tool for Unlocking Your Creativity

Legal

An Introduction to Trademarks

Marketing

5 Pixar Storytelling Secrets That Will Help You Tell the Story of Your Business

The Inbound-Marketing Grader Examines YouTube Star Shawn Clement

Email-List Fatigue: Symptoms, Causes, Prevention, and Cures

Inbound Marketing: Its Advantages and Disadvantages for Solopreneurs

Money Stuff

At the End of Each Month, Are You Guilty of the Mistake That Rookie Marketers Make?

You’re Not a Bank: Don’t Let Your Accounts Receivable Slide

Motivation

What Are You Waiting For?

Niches

6 Cool Examples of Successful Niche Businesses

How To Create a Successful Niche Business

When Estimating the Profitability of a Niche, Answer These 9 Questions

Novelties

Here’s a novelty post, TSL’s equivalent of Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime”
21 Things We Love and Hate About Being Solopreneurs

Productivity

10 Tips on How to Use Evernote to Its Fullest

Live Your Solopreneur Life in “Quadrant II”

Sales/Advertising

Can You Guess the Two Most Powerful Words in Advertising?

David Ogilvy’s First Commandment for Great Copywriting

David Ogilvy’s Second Commandment for Great Copywriting (and How to Use It)

To Make Copywriting Easy, Start With a Fact Sheet

Startup

Coaching vs. Consulting vs. Training vs. Freelancing: Which One Is Best For You?

The Extremely Profitable Work That New Solopreneurs Overlook

Solopreneur Business Conception: Mix and Match to Spark Ideas

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The 4 best ways on how to create passive income with no money

By Gregory Rouse • April 4, 2019
Learning how to create passive income with no money is not easy... It's taken me years and a lot of trial and error to figure it out. But first, I should probably define passive income...
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Niche Marketing Examples

By Gregory Rouse • April 3, 2019
10 super successful niche marketing examples that you can model after.

What Is Niche Marketing

By Gregory Rouse • April 2, 2019
Learn all about niche marketing along with taking a look at different niche marketing examples...
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Featured Solopreneur Rob Place: “Write a Business Plan!”

By Gregory Rouse • April 1, 2019
This is The Solopreneur Life’s “Featured Solopreneur,” the purpose of which is to give all of us a glimpse at how other solopreneurs operate their small businesses. This week we meet Rob Place. If you would like to be the “Featured Solopreneur,” please send me an e-mail. Name of solopreneur: Rob Place Name of […]

Featured Solopreneur Monique Y. Wells: “I Love the Freedom to Explore”

By Gregory Rouse • April 1, 2019
This is The Solopreneur Life’s “Featured Soloist,” the purpose of which is to give all of us a glimpse at how other solopreneurs operate their small businesses. Today we meet Monique Y. Wells. If you would like to be the “Featured Soloist,” please send me an e-mail. Name of solopreneur: Monique Y. Wells Name […]
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Featured Solopreneur Burton Kelso: “Putting Yourself First Is the First Secret”

By Gregory Rouse • April 1, 2019
This is The Solopreneur Life’s “Featured Solopreneur,” the purpose of which is to give all of us a glimpse at how other solopreneurs operate their small businesses. This week we meet Burton Kelso. If you would like to be the “Featured Solopreneur,” please send me an e-mail. Name of solopreneur: Burton Kelso Name of […]
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Featured Solopreneur Nea Joy Justice: “My Fallback Position Is My Resourcefulness and Commitment”

By Gregory Rouse • April 1, 2019
This is The Solopreneur Life’s “Featured Solopreneur,” the purpose of which is to give all of us a glimpse at how other solopreneurs operate their small businesses. Today we meet Nea Joy Justice. If you would like to be the “Featured Solopreneur,” please send me an e-mail. Name of solopreneur: Nea Joy Justice Name […]
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Featured Solopreneur Shauna Washington: “Stop Settling!”

By Gregory Rouse • April 1, 2019
This is The Solopreneur Life’s “Featured Solopreneur,” the purpose of which is to give all of us a glimpse at how other solopreneurs operate their small businesses. This week we meet Shauna Washington. If you would like to be the “Featured Solopreneur,” please send me an e-mail. Name of solopreneur: Shauna Washington – The […]
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Featured Solopreneur Derek Peterson: “Always Work to Fill the Glass”

By Gregory Rouse • April 1, 2019
This is The Solopreneur Life’s “Featured Solopreneur,” the purpose of which is to give all of us a glimpse at how other solopreneurs operate their small businesses. Today we meet Derek Peterson. If you would like to be the “Featured Solopreneur,” please send me an e-mail. Name of solopreneur: Derek Peterson, International Child/Youth Advocate […]
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Featured Solopreneur Kent J. McDonald: “Jump In and Do It”

By Gregory Rouse • April 1, 2019
This is The Solopreneur Life’s “Featured Solopreneur,” the purpose of which is to give all of us a glimpse at how other solopreneurs operate their small businesses. Today we meet Kent J. McDonald. If you would like to be the “Featured Solopreneur,” please send me an e-mail. Name of solopreneur: Kent J. McDonald Name […]