Think of running a business like taking a trip. You have a great vision for where you want to take your company (your destination). To get there, you have to navigate through a field of land mines (insert dramatic music). Here’s the thing, millions of people navigated this field of land mines before. Some made it, [...]
The Expert Myths: 5 Deceptions Keeping You from Launching Your Expert Empire
It’s the dream job: sharing your expertise with those who need it most, enriching the lives of thousands, and earning an honest, secure, and oftentimes massive income in return. This is the life of the six-figure expert. It could be your life, and the life of countless others, but there’s a problem. Over time, you’ve [...]
How to Write a Book In Your Spare Time
Many people say they would like to write a book. That statement is usually in the form of “I have this great book idea”, “I’ve always wanted to write a novel” or “I will write it when I have more time.” I used to say things like that. I kept promising myself that I would [...]
How Can You Avoid Fizzling Out? By Doing These Two Things
Note from Caleb: Corbett Barr, Chase Reeves and I are launching our latest project today: Fizzle: Honest Video Training for Online Business Builders. If you want to make a difference, become an expert, or earn a living online you can find out more here. Everyone knows that to get great at something you have you [...]
The 3 Essential Steps to Finding Your Passion and Building a Career Around It
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman Why do some people love their work, while the vast majority dread getting up every morning? Is it our decisions? Our upbringings? Luck? Something else? Surveys [...]
The Best Way to Effectively Build Your Expert Brand
This is a post by Justice Wordlaw IV. In late 2009 I tried to make money online and quickly found I had no idea what I was doing. Like most people when you first want to break into the online world, you hear stories about everyone easily making money using the internet. This of course [...]
Supplement Your Income (And Finally Monetize Your Blog) By Selling eBooks
This is a guest post by Alexis Grant of AlexisGrant.com Everyone’s always talking about how to monetize your blog. But ads are ugly, affiliate sales are only as big as your audience, and consulting ties you to an hourly rate. Here’s a strategy that’s far more lucrative: creating and selling ebooks. Don’t have a clue [...]
You’ve Got a Problem — Can You Sell the Solution?
This is a guest post by Thursday Bram of 21times.org. The greatest businesses have been founded on someone recognizing a problem, becoming an expert on that issue and then selling a solution to the masses. Apple — or, rather, Steve Jobs —recognized that there weren’t user-friendly computers for individuals. He went on to recognize that [...]
Why Right Now is the Time to Prove You’re An Expert
This is a guest post by Nick Thacker of Life Hacked. I’m an expert (enough of one, at least). You’re probably enough of an expert as well—you just need to prove it to the rest of us before we’ll sit up and take notice. In the early days of blogging and the social web, a [...]
How to Live the Luxury Lifestyle for Less
This is a guest post by Sean Ogle, founder of Location Rebel and his latest project Hacking the High Life, which teaches you how to create incredible stories on the cheap. It was September of 2011 and I’d just moved to Bali, Indonesia for two months. I was eating my $4 breakfast feast at a local café when [...]













