I'm an entrepreneur, real estate investor, family man and follower of Christ. I spent 15 years as an entrepreneur and executive in the mobile software industry. Most of my posts here are focused on my recent journey as a lifestyle entrepreneur.
Since Woocommerce seems to be a popular topic on my blog, I thought I’d follow up with an update to my original Woocommerce Post and discuss some of woocommerce v2.0 challenges I’ve faced recently. I hadn’t been following the progress of the big wocommerce 2.0 release but late Monday night I noticed that my Scandle [...]
My friends and family know I read business and Entrepreneurial books almost exclusively. There are a few who ask for recommendations so I created a list of my 15 favorite entrepreneurial books. These are listed in no particular order. Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world [...]
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Theologian, Howard Thurman It was July, 1997 and I just released my first mobile app, SimpleDB for the PalmPilot. The entire personal digital assistant (pda) [...]
In early 2008 I was searching the web for information on lakes around the Dallas/Fort Worth area. What information I found was sparse and outdated. I knew other users were having the same issue so I partnered with a friend to develop LakeHub.com, a network of sites focused on information including real estate, rentals, marinas, fishing guide [...]
I believe everyone should work towards creating passive income. Generating just a few hundred extra dollars per month can go a long way when you lose your job or get in a tight spot. Fortunately tools such as WordPress provide excellent opportunities to earn some extra money. To create long-term passive income you’ll need to [...]
I’m a big fan of tools such as WordPress that enable entrepreneurs. I was excited to learn about Woocommerce, an updated version of the popular WordPress ecommerce plugin by Jigoshop. It just so happened that a few friends needed a new site for their massage candle business so I offered to rebuild the site using [...]
It seems that most Facebook advertisers treat Facebook the same as any other advertising medium. They create a page for their product or business then run a generic facebook ad hoping users will “like” their page. Sounds easy enough but it doesn’t work. Facebook users understand that “likes” are immediately visibile to all their friends [...]
Occasionally I like to refresh my memory on a few favorite books. I’ve found it useful to check the top Amazon Kindle highlights as a quick review. Here are the top to 10 highlights for Rework, one of my favorite business books for 2010.
In the next few years we’ll see a huge shift in how we buy online. With the recent social graph API announcement Facebook is now compiling the world’s largest social recommendation engine. Someday you may only purchase or download goods that your friends have “liked.”
For those of you with search engine optimization (SEO) experience, move on. This post is dedicated to the “average” site owner with very little exposure to the world of search engine marketing. In the summer of 2008 I decided to create a community site for Cedar Creek Lake with a goal to reach the #1 [...]
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