As I write this, I’m getting ready to start a new class in my local area on how to start and run a business that is both enjoyable and profitable, while focusing on helping others. I have several intentions for this class. First, I want to help the students create a profitable business they’ll enjoy…
Email communications is perhaps one of the most important aspects of running an online business, second only to the system used to actually process sales and product delivery. Even in a world with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other social media, nothing is quite as effective as being able to send your customers and prospects…
I recently presented a workshop focused on helping folks find a fun and rewarding way to earn a living, and maybe even become financially wealthy. One of the things I really love about the audience for this workshop is that they are focused on being of service to the world around them. I love this…
About a year ago, I rebuilt this blog site with WordPress. This has worked well, so over the last week, I’ve rebuilt the PowerKeys Publishing website with WordPress. Now, I’m switching the system that handles email from arpReach to Mautic. Or, at least, I’m exploring Mautic to see if it’s going to be a good…
Six years ago, in 2012, after coming home from a trip to Hawaii, I was inspired to write a new book called “Harmonic Prayer“. This was 4 years after writing my “Choose To Believe” book, and I felt this would give folks a ‘shortcut’ to shifting the beliefs required to manifest their desires. I still…
My last post was focused on backups, and my work on this has uncovered a few more details which has caused me to expand the project into the core storage used for my main data as well. Specifically, I’ve just converted (2) 4TB hard drives into a single RAID-0 striped storage volume. While most folks…
As an online publisher, I collect a fair amount of data over time, although it is nothing compared to the data collected from my photography / videography activities. After 15 years of producing books, audio recordings, and a few videos, I can fit everything (including educational and software downloads) onto a 500GB hard drive, which…
My last several blog posts have outlined a plan of action that I would take if I suddenly lost everything and had to start all over again, without any of my previous products, subscribers, partners, or other resources. In other words, in the same position most newbies face when first starting out online. While this…
At the end of yesterday’s post, at which point I had produced a new guided meditation as my first product in this whole “starting over” scenario, I mentioned that the next step would be to start contacting potential affiliates about the new offer they could announce to their mailing lists. I actually jumped the gun…
By this point in the series, we have covered the first 2 weeks of what I would do if I had to start all over again without any of my previously created products, my mailing list, partners, or other resources. If all goes well, by this point in the process, I’m already getting a few…
For those just coming into this series, I’m describing what I would do if I had to start all over again, without any of the resources I’ve gained from being in business online for these past 15 years, as if I were a complete newbie, but with the knowledge and experience of an internet veteran….
In the first 2 posts in this series, I’ve described what I would do in the first week in the fictional case of having to start all over again with nothing — none of my previous products, partners, mailing list, or other assets. Up to this point, I’ve researched a need that exists in the…