Comments on: 10 Lessons From A 25-Year-Old Who Made It http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html Tim Berry on business planning, starting and growing your business, and having a life in the meantime Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Konrad Young http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-49272 Konrad Young Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:22:43 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html#comment-49272 Invaluable info Invaluable info

]]> By: John Michailidis http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-18999 John Michailidis Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:14:41 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html#comment-18999 What I find so compelling about this story is the fact that the advice offered is nothing new (DO NOT mistake that comment for me saying the advice is UNIMPORTANT -- it's fabulous advice!). What this woman did was IMPLEMENT! She took ACTION! She was RELENTLESS! She actually applied those things that most of us already know to be true. We all can take a valuable lesson from Ms. Van Vleck's example. What I find so compelling about this story is the fact that the advice offered is nothing new (DO NOT mistake that comment for me saying the advice is UNIMPORTANT — it’s fabulous advice!).

What this woman did was IMPLEMENT! She took ACTION! She was RELENTLESS! She actually applied those things that most of us already know to be true.

We all can take a valuable lesson from Ms. Van Vleck’s example.

]]> By: John Krech http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-16653 John Krech Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:54:50 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html#comment-16653 Great advice - nice to see someone learn adapt. Too often people become paralyzed by "their plan". Business changes and you need to react. Our business recognizes the same issue in how small business uses QuickBooks to manage inventory. The settings are fixed and manual - making it difficult to adapt to changing conditions. We use the data that resides in QuickBooks to determine the direction to optimize their inventory. The key again as mentioned above - remember what is important strategically and constantly steer your business in the right direction. Great advice – nice to see someone learn adapt. Too often people become paralyzed by “their plan”. Business changes and you need to react. Our business recognizes the same issue in how small business uses QuickBooks to manage inventory. The settings are fixed and manual – making it difficult to adapt to changing conditions. We use the data that resides in QuickBooks to determine the direction to optimize their inventory.

The key again as mentioned above – remember what is important strategically and constantly steer your business in the right direction.

]]> By: HAL http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-15456 HAL Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:42:14 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/04/10-lessons-from-a-25-year-old-who-made-it.html#comment-15456 Dear Tim: Friday, April 24, 2009 at 12:59PM Tokyo Time My what an attractive website you have! Joanna sounds like an "up and at em" kind a gal. I was struck by her decision to use SKYPE. As for the plan, I wonder whether there is a solopreneur plan to be built that provides a seamless integration between the vision, the architecting of the website, the website metrics, and excel sheet projections of key data? Yes BP's for web solopreneurs seems like a fertile field. Internet marketer, Alex Jeffreys has done a reasonable job of inculcating the idea of planning forward using a google calendar to map out action steps to achieve a result over 9o days. This type of thinking works if your into whipping yourself when you get behind and it definitely helps grow a presence in terms of blogging or twittering. It does not seem to be the same though as a plan that gives you a sense of direction & expectation of success. For example, when I was a banker we used to use Robert Morris Association ratios to compare companies performance in the same industry. Is there a viable way to do the same for web niche categories? And now with tools like Market Samurai you can compare what it will take to move your newbie sight up in the organic search rankings. A more internet marketing enlightening question might be:What "edge" do solopreneurs have to have to achieve an "edge" & thereby increase their % chance of success enough to justify the time suck? Perhaps the "edge factors" can be broken down into: 1) personal drawing power; 2) product "fit" [the product's ability to solve a problem or delight user(s)]and 3) execution of a crafted plan. There should be ways to accumulate and analyze solopreneuring data for on web businesses. Anyway, with the advent of the web we have a new way to think about sole proprietoring. So far I find it exhilarating but not lucrative. I suspect that this has a lot to do with execution but I'm also sure that if my plan were better formed I would have more convince in it and myself which would cogito ergo sum my success. Respectfully, HAL BTW, I've joined a business for over 60 group on Ning with a guy from France... you might help inspire it if and when you reach this turning point (I'm almost there) I like the idea of helping geezers, especially after the failure of Wall Street quants to get their notional values and complex derivatives delta hedged. Dear Tim:
Friday, April 24, 2009 at 12:59PM Tokyo Time
My what an attractive website you have!
Joanna sounds like an “up and at em” kind a gal. I was struck by her decision to use SKYPE.
As for the plan, I wonder whether there is a solopreneur plan to be built that provides a seamless integration between the vision, the architecting of the website, the website metrics, and excel sheet projections of key data?
Yes BP’s for web solopreneurs seems like a fertile field. Internet marketer, Alex Jeffreys has done a reasonable job of inculcating the idea of planning forward using a google calendar to map out action steps to achieve a result over 9o days.
This type of thinking works if your into whipping yourself when you get behind and it definitely helps grow a presence in terms of blogging or twittering.
It does not seem to be the same though as a plan that gives you a sense of direction & expectation of success.
For example, when I was a banker we used to use Robert Morris Association ratios to compare companies performance in the same industry. Is there a viable way to do the same for web niche categories?
And now with tools like Market Samurai you can compare what it will take to move your newbie sight up in the organic search rankings.
A more internet marketing enlightening question might be:What “edge” do solopreneurs have to have to achieve an “edge” & thereby increase their % chance of success enough to justify the time suck?
Perhaps the “edge factors” can be broken down into: 1) personal drawing power; 2) product “fit” [the product's ability to solve a problem or delight user(s)]and 3) execution of a crafted plan.
There should be ways to accumulate and analyze solopreneuring data for on web businesses.
Anyway, with the advent of the web we have a new way to think about sole proprietoring.
So far I find it exhilarating but not lucrative. I suspect that this has a lot to do with execution but I’m also sure that if my plan were better formed I would have more convince in it and myself which would cogito ergo sum my success.
Respectfully,
HAL
BTW, I’ve joined a business for over 60 group on Ning with a guy from France… you might help inspire it if and when you reach this turning point (I’m almost there)
I like the idea of helping geezers, especially after the failure of Wall Street quants to get their notional values and complex derivatives delta hedged.

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