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by spiredigital 14y ago
Mkelley – Drop shipping has been mentioned a few time, and I wanted to give you my thoughts on the business model. I've had a lot of success with drop shipping eCommerce and have been doing it full-time for more than 4 years. Robryan is rig
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by spiredigital 15y ago
> Business guy means taking risk, being persistant, able to sell and to network. That's it. Taking risk doesn't make you a good at business. In fact, quite the opposite. Great businessmen are experts at limiting their risk and identif
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by spiredigital 15y ago
My company just moved to the Rackspace Managed Cloud, which is about $350 a month for a 4GB dedicated virtual server, and it has been fantastic. Our team is savvy, but we definitely don't have any hard-core linux sysadmins in the group, so
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by spiredigital 15y ago
I can't imagine working in a cubicle environment without the ability to block out distraction and hope to maintain any level of productivity. Any major project I'm working on involves some planning - yes - but even more long stretches of u
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by spiredigital 15y ago
Awesome work, James! Your site looks really nice, and now you've got the ability to do design AND program, which is a combo that isn't too common. Best of luck with your site....
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by spiredigital 15y ago
AnyFu looks like a GREAT site. I've wanted access to subject area experts in the past for specific issues, but didn't want the delay involved with finding a long-term freelancer on oDesk or eLance. Plus, the quality is often sub-par. Bes
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by spiredigital 15y ago
Been working from home since early 2008, and found one of the most critical things to do is to separate your work space from the rest of your "normal" life. For a while, I was waking up 24" from my laptop. I'd work non-stop all day, and m
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by spiredigital 15y ago
So if I'm skilled, get things done, am intelligent, project vision and am passionate you'll hire me? Unfortunately, that makes me a perfect candidate to start my own company, so I think I'll probably do that instead. But thanks for the in
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by spiredigital 15y ago
I looked into the requirements when hiring abroad, and the IRS makes it insanely confusing (surprise, surprise). I finally determined that I had no U.S. payroll/withholding responsibility as my foreign employee was outside the U.S. and did
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by spiredigital 15y ago
A few takeaways from what I've learned after 4 years of experimentation with outsourcing / hiring remotely in my own full-time online business: - Turnover can be a problem. I went through 3 part-time workers in the course of 6 months becau
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by spiredigital 15y ago
Google+'s killer feature (at least from what I've seen) is Circles. Not being able to easily control who sees what on Facebook is the reason I don't post more personal content to it. Being able to easily control what I share and with who
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by spiredigital 15y ago
As both a tech and finance geek, one thing that drives me crazy is when someone uses the phrase "I made $X" to describe top-line revenue and NOT their profits. This occurs really frequently due to either people not being informed, or becau