While doing research for my book, I’ve been spending some time digging into building friendships and relationships with people around you. How valuable are they, really? How can you make them more valuable? Are online relationships valuable at all, or … Read More

From the Herald Tribune series on mortgage fraud in Florida: Lenders failed to heed red flags Fraudulent property flippers had an unlikely accomplice during the real estate boom — the lending industry. A yearlong Herald-Tribune investigation into thousands of suspicious … Read More

This will be a very busy week for economic news, and some of the key data will be new home sales for June released on Monday, the Case-Shiller home price index for May released on Tuesday, and Q2 GDP from … Read More

This blog post is a continuation of a previous post regarding my quest to reach a minimum of 500 leads for the month of August. To Go Fishing You Need Bait If you want to receive a lot of home … Read More

BHAG, Big Hairy (Fill in the Blank) Goals! You gotta have some BHAG in your business plan because if you shoot for the Moon and miss you may just end up in the STARS. One of my BHAG is for the month … Read More

Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many other things. Got a question? Ask it in the comments. You might … Read More

Over the last year, I’ve been jotting down individual notes and thoughts that I’m intending to include in my next book. Now that the time has come to start putting this together, I sat down and finally did a thorough … Read More

An acquaintance from my previous career wrote to me recently asking about the steps I took when I made the switch to working at home: It’s official: I’m ready to get out of here. I’m tired of working here and … Read More

One of the most effective means of targeting customers is by using internet leads. Although traditional lead gathering has its place, there are some definite advantages to online leads. Let’s take a look at why these leads can be so … Read More

If you want to take advantage of the power of pay-per-click marketing, there has never been a better time to do so. Unlike many forms of marketing, the entrance cost is remarkably low and you are able to completely control … Read More