Comments on: Blood, Sweat, And Tears

By: Dr.Jack A

Dr.Jack A — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:58:00 +0000

You have my attention! Can’t wait for the rest of this series! THANKS for taking the time to motivate others!

By: Matthew Glencoe

Matthew Glencoe — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:10:00 +0000

Interesting. Over the last three years, I’ve been boot-strapping a marketing and communications firm in my small market. The good thing about that is I’m pretty much the only game in town. The bad thing is that while there is a need for what I can do, the awareness of that need is only gradually developing…. That said, things are coming along.

The bottom line, is that I try to provide my clients the benefit of my knowledge of how to communicate with their most valuable audiences. I’m always scouting for new ways to accomplish this. So far, on-line engagement has provided limited utility because of the small geographic focus. That said, I don’t believe that’s how it will stay, and I’m keen to be ahead of the curve with it. I look forward to seeing what you’re doing and watching for opportunities to either apply it to my own operations, or offer direction to clients.

By: derek pierce

derek pierce — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:11:00 +0000

In reply to Matthew Glencoe. I show people strategies I use to get traffic with Google and how I make money online. I've also released several pieces of software to help streamline the SEO process.

By: derek pierce

derek pierce — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:08:00 +0000

In reply to Ted B. Thanks for the share :)

By: Ted B

Ted B — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 06:35:00 +0000

WOW… forgot all about that type of work, until reading this. Have to share. For me, after HS in the summer, I was building roof trusses at a factory. You’d hammer all the wooden joints together with a large metal plate, which had multiple razor sharp teeth. Quite a few cuts there, but the killer was the machine press you put the truss in that squeezed the plates together for the entire truss. Two large rolling drums at waist height, like an old fashion washing machine ringer, only each drum was about 3 feet in diameter. Well, sometimes you would jump in the middle of the truss to carry it over to the press. (They were very long. Just look at your roof from the side of your house.) So if you didn’t have enough people holding it up to help carry it over, you got in the middle for more leverage. Of course you’re suppose to get out as the press is pulling the truss through. But that could be just a few feet before it pulls you through. Everybody did this, but the story was one person didn’t make it out in time. Now this was before I started there. And thinking about it now, I have to wonder if it was true or just a scare tactic. Either way, gruesome to think about. But no question it would flatten you out. Glad today that I’m typing away with all 10 digits and not doing young men work. Too slow these days to move that fast.

By: Matthew Glencoe

Matthew Glencoe — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:24:00 +0000

In reply to derek pierce. BTW, I'm curious to see and learn more about what you do.

By: Matthew Glencoe

Matthew Glencoe — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:23:00 +0000

In reply to derek pierce. Yep. It's been nearly four years since I started bootstrapping my marketing/communications consultancy. Plenty of sweat, and occasional tears, but no blood! I will say, though, that on those difficult days, being positive, optimistic and energized must become a conscious decision.

By: derek pierce

derek pierce — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 03:30:00 +0000

In reply to Jason Garrison.

Hey Jason – so good to hear from you! Long time no see.

Hope everything is going well 🙂

By: Jason Garrison

Jason Garrison — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 03:28:00 +0000

In reply to derek pierce.

Sounds like we all had very similar summer jobs. I can remember long hot, boring as hell days working at MZH. Jobs varied daily, hourly it seemed; packaging, shipping, stacking bags, bidding from bosses ( yes that was a job), and the worst… hauling trash to the City Dump. Come to think of it it really wasn’t bad at all, it got me away from the plant.

Derek- keep it up. Sounds like your on the right track. I believe your 100% correct in that an online business model is were it’s at, limitless income, not geographically fixed to one spot, and as few employees as possible. My idea business.

Looking forward to seeing where this journey takes you.

Jason Garrison

By: derek pierce

derek pierce — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 03:15:00 +0000

In reply to Thad Forester. haha - did you expect any less? That was the first time we'd had MTV