How To Start A Small Business

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One of the common questions I receive when a visitor first lands on this blog and reads my ‘About Me‘ page is, “How did you start your own computer business?”  Whether they are interested in the IT field or just wanting to know how to start a small business, I try to help as much as I can.  I’m passionate about being a small business owner and feel that everyone should have the means and opportunity to pursue this dream if they have it.  With a recent request about how to start a small business, I decided it was time to go ahead and right a post, detailing the process.  I plan on covering both the practical AND mental aspects as well as touching on the technical details that make it legal and legit. Read more »

Learn To Love Your Career

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Friday’s post, “Can We Pick Our Talents | Community Insight“, brought about some excellent comments.  One in particular stood out as great insight and a perfect talking point for my following post.  It was by Matt R. (Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Guy) and he said this:

“The key is to find what you’re talented at, learn to love it, learn to make money with it, and learn to keep it fresh. Once you can do that, you’re set!”

On the surface this may not come across as anything more than common sense.  I mean, of course we should do all of that, right?  But the two parts that really stood out for me were, “learn to love it” and “learn to keep it fresh“.  These are two essential ingredients to any successful career.  Let’s take a look at each one individually and see the hows and whys of this insight. Read more »

Is Being Yourself Making You Broke? | Community Insight

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In talking with a blogging friend of mine, the subject came up about selling yourself and still BEING yourself.  We were talking about how it’s not in our personalities to add exclamation points to our sales pitch when selling ourselves.  It’s not that we don’t believe we’re great at what we do or that the potential client won’t completely benefit from our product and/or service, but we’re used to letting our actions speak for themselves.  And yet in this completely commercial World that we live in, with everyone and their grandmother screaming for attention, we are liable to get drowned out if we don’t speak up. Read more »

What Career Is Right For Me?

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This question is asked many times in our lives, whether verbally or subconsciously. For many of us this is an unending journey that often times never seems to find a satisfactory answer. When I finally got sick of working J-O-B’s I screamed this very question, “What career is right for me?!” Sick of working for someone else, I decided to start my own computer consulting business. This lasted 5 years and turned into an excellent stepping stone to finding the answer I was looking for. Now I’m in a transition period that is presenting me with excellent insight into showing me what career is right for me. Read more »