Comments on: Do It Your Way

By: Five Tools to Sharpen Your Authentic Edge | Delightful Work

Five Tools to Sharpen Your Authentic Edge | Delightful Work — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:03:09 +0000

[...] in high regard, you’ll build your business in a way that will ideally serve you. By honoring who you are, you’ll also be in the best position to generously serve others [...]

By: How to Build a Legitimate Home Based Business Opportunity. | Unique Home Based Business Opportunity

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:36:33 +0000

[...] Authentic business building is doing it your way, by continually adjusting and refining your business to serve the lifestyle you most want to live. [...]

By: Jannie

Jannie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:12:36 +0000

"Regrets I had a few, but then again too few to mention..." I did it My Way!! Worked for Frank, we can do it our way too. In fact , sometimes it's the ony way to get 'er done! Jannies last blog post..3 poems and a child in a tree (now with preamble)

By: Tom Volkar

Tom Volkar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:14:27 +0000

Lorraine – Absolutely, the action comes soon after the first three. I also like slide focus in between expectancy and action.

Click a Coach – Or can I call you Click? Yep I like your analogy. We sure can’t see the road from the couch! We have to get in there an d see what develops.

Lance – I think being scared is a prerequisite to being and entrepreneur and f delightfully crazy is a bade of honor. Keep moving man. It gets easier. decide – Act – Adjust – Decide Again!

Mitch – that’s right. We can miss frequently but we survive and the sweet feelings of hitting the mark far exceed the pain of the misses!

Evan – I think you do know lots that you don’t use. I remember seeing you in the Teaching Sells forums last year (I’m a dropout, I couldn’t handle the pace of new info). I really think I’m not the best guy to be writing on increasing traffic because I hardly look at my stats. My subscriber count keeps increasing but slowly.
I think a better question might lets see if you can go more direct. Why do you want more traffic? Then what might happen?

Kelly – It’s good to hear from you. We all have such limited time that I certainly understand only commenting occasionally. I can’t even get around to read all the blogs that I’d like to. I think that blogging needs to feed our creative juices and our wallets. If it’s not doing both for you and you’d like it to, perhaps that is the right decision. I’ve successfully worked with a lot of clients in your shoes. Often they have already hit on the answer yet they refuse to believe it because it didn’t come with trumpets and fanfare. What usually happens after a few sessions is that I force them to choose so that we have something to adjust. You have to get into action so you can realize where you are. I’ll try to post on this in more detail down the road. Be strong – your creative muse will not accept silence forever.

By: Kelly@SHE-POWER

Kelly@SHE-POWER — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:44:13 +0000

Tom, this was a really wonderful article. Definitely one of your best. I know I am mostly a silent reader but you really do inspire me. What you said about: "You must want to earn a livelihood from the core of who you are", that really hits a chord with me because I think this is what holds me back. I do want to make a living from my creative talents, but I am not sure in which manner and I question whether the time is right due to my other family commitments. Maybe it's a barrier that I'm not stuck in some crappy job desperate to get out. I am the second earner and I only work when I want and I do love being there for my young son. But then the desire for my own creative income is definitely there, so what can I do about that? Lately I've even been considering giving up blogging to free up more time to go for it, but then I don't know what IT is. Anyway, I love what you write and you're such an insightful man. Thank you. Kelly Kelly@SHE-POWERs last blog post..New Hope and The Ship of Life

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:57:42 +0000

Hi Tom,

My problem isn’t knowing my core or how I want to do it so much as the nuts and bolts.

How to build traffic and such. (I have tried StumbleUpon and those who come from it don’t seem to become subscribers. It may be me of course, but for whatever reason they don’t.)

So I’d like you to write more about getting traffic. There are some things I know that I don’t have the time for at the moment (I’ve got an exam in a week) – blog carnivals and such. It may be I just need more time.

Being a bit provocative. I’d like to see some reflection on popovers. I hate the damn things and hate the idea of putting one on my blog. But lots of people are at the moment because Darren Rowse found they work (in the short-term anyway). So this is taken to be a reason for doing it. Whereas I think their just plain rude (Seth Godin would call it interruption marketing I think), which means it shouldn’t be done even if it works. So, if you’re game a post on to popover or not might be fun.

Evans last blog post..Cancer Roundup

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:49:46 +0000

I love this post. I pretty much do this in my life, business, and my blog. It doesn't always work, but when it does, man, it's sweet! Mitchs last blog post..Feeling Good Tonight

By: Lance

Lance — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:31:46 +0000

So, I’m now an official resident here in the community halfway house!! Does that make me halfway crazy — or halfway “there”… maybe a bit of both I suppose! One foot out the door…honestly that feels scary…(and exciting)…but scary is still the first thought I had…

By: Click A Life Coach

Click A Life Coach — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:55:04 +0000

Great post Tom, I like the end, it is like you are driving a car with your lights on at night. You can only see until the next bend in the road on you don't know what comes behind until you hit a well lit highway and all becomes clear! Watch out for roadworks! They slow you down but don't hold you up. Click A Life Coachs last blog post..5 Points to Personal Success

By: Tom Volkar

Tom Volkar — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:34:31 +0000

Stacey – Thanks so much for asking a question in response to the questions at the end of my post. Here was my question.

How can I serve you? What part of the journey would you have me write about?

Your response – “Since you asked, I’d like to learn more about product and service development. I’m ready to offer services and products, but I need a kick to get started.”

I may write a post on this so ‘d love to hear your responses to these follow-up questions.

Are you resisting getting started because of a fear or concern or is that that you just haven’t made it a priority?

Have you begun creating your products(s) or designing your services?

Have you decided specifically who your target market is and what only you can offer them in your special way?

What specifically do you think you need to know before getting started?

Thanks in advance for responding to these.