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Re: Great Writers Start Ugly

Daniel Richard — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:20:32 -0000

I started writing on a wordpress.com blog (not self-hosted), with each post barely longer than 50 words. Not haiku. That was in 2006.

Just to share, here's a sample of one of my "better" post then.

http://www10.wordpress.com/...

I went on to write 2 ebooks (both discontinued after accidentally deleting them from my own web server ... doh!), built a couple of 5 and 6 figure businesses (as a founder and adviser), and beyond that, I got to meet many great and wonderful writers and bloggers alike on the web, who I can call my friends, today.

I wouldn't consider myself as "great", but yes, I sure did start ugly. :)

Thank you for sharing this post Jeff!

Re: How I Left Church and Found Faith

Daniel Richard — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:36:03 -0000

Hey Matt. Wrote something similar to yours on faith too. Geared towards having disputes and a fallout with fellow Christians that I had for the past 2 years, but how to move on with life and walking in faith. :)

Plug: http://thedanielrichard.com...

Re: Why Even 4 Hours of Sleep is Not Enough

Daniel Richard — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:02:25 -0000

"While working hard, we also understand that work never ends" - great quote that drives us in doing what we do. :)

Re: 11 College Dropout Billionaires

Daniel Richard — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:18:15 -0000

Sharing this on my FB. :)

Re: How Did You Become An Entrepreneur?

Daniel Richard — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:49:34 -0000

Featured. :)

To be more detailed than that answer I'd given, my first "business venture" was when I was at a friend's house (we were 11 then), and my friend had those drawing blocks (A3 sized paper) and some pencils.

I started drawing on one of the pieces, and made them into card pieces (dividing them up), and soon after, started to draw more and when we ran out of paper, I ran home (10 minutes walk away) and did a completely new set (made them into collectors' version, ie: puzzle on one side, game card on the other), and they said "we should buy them from you!!" like how those vending card games work.

That day's "profits" (more like the whole day's income) went on to be a treat of sweets shared among all of us who collected those cards.

15 years ago! Golly. :)

Re: 5 Myths About Passive Income and Online Business

Daniel Richard — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:06:02 -0000

I'm at mid hundreds in passive income right now; not yet a job replacer yet, the money helps. :)

Re: The Number One Problem Facing a Digital Nomad (No Pun Intended)

Daniel Richard — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:16:44 -0000

The toilet story! I can resonate with that. :)

Although I wouldn't exactly do that (if one of those accessories are gone, there goes my livelihood) anymore except in closely guarded places like the library or in club houses where there's a security cam around.

Re: Internet Entrepreneurs Peak Around 25

Daniel Richard — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:44:56 -0000

I'm 26. May we all 26'sers and beyond be late bloomers. :)

Re: I’m Totally Holding Back

Daniel Richard — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:12:17 -0000

Good to slow down, take a breather, enjoy what's in for you now. :)

What's the thing that ya holding back (I see the word "all" in the 4th last paragraph) on Colin?

Re: 45 Epic Quotes for Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

Daniel Richard — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:09:36 -0000

Shared it out on Twitter. Have a great weekend ahead Maren!

Re: Welcome to For Entrepreneurs

Daniel Richard — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:28:49 -0000

Hey David, found you from Andrew's interview on Mixergy. Liked the way the main topics are covered (shown right from the menu navigation); reading them now. Have a great week ahead! - Daniel

Re: Minimalism Explained

Daniel Richard — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:55:13 -0000

And I read both of your ebooks (havn't got the latest one yet) on my mobile (thank goodness it comes with a .pdf reader!).

Re: Minimalism Explained

Daniel Richard — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:36:30 -0000

Hey Colin, was having a chat with a friend yesterday too on the topic on minimalism---"hey, you're a minimalist right? so what do you practice?"

I'm more about doing things simple; no need to go all fanciful on things that can be done with less.

Examples:

Food business: no need to have a huge menu of stuff from 5 to 7 suppliers, while we are already working with 1 supplier that's an accredited award winner for a specific range of products (saving time and costs on traveling to purchase orders -> delivery ; increase happiness in work / less work no stress if 1 of the few suppliers suddenly run out of stock).

Fashion mannequins (selling to established retail and startups): No need for big and clunky online sales systems while one contact form with specific instructions to book appointments does the trick (sell in 1 step instead of 5).

And the getting rid of stuff part?

I stop using paper for years (except when I'm taking down notes). It's easier to commit things to memory by writing down. I won't refer to old notes again, hence out goes paper (and every other thing that was moldy after 25 yrs of existence). :)

Not a bunch of set rules about minimalism; find what works and stick to it.

Re: Killer Lessons for Lawyers and Entrepreneurs from Rework

Daniel Richard — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:35:52 -0000

Liked the approach that you've done to this review; writing how each section of the book relates and is relevant to your work too.

Re: Why your first website should be cheap

Daniel Richard — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:38:01 -0000

Remembered the days it took me more than a month (or 2!) before spending my first $10 on a web domain, and a crappily cheap hosting at $1 p/mth. That was in 2006.

Web domain stayed till today (while including a few more over the years -- some retired after a year while the good ones stayed and built upon the next), while I've went through a few upgrades in hosting plans (just got one at $60 p/mth this weekend; redoing website/s right now).

Hehe. I'm sure more readers / commenters would feel the same about spending cheap for the first while scaling up when necessary. :)

Re: Goal Setting Simplified

Daniel Richard — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:58:12 -0000

I remembered the days writing an ebook. Set it at 1000 words per day (it's a number that I was already comfortable at); which includes trimming away words that doesn't bring clarity, while checking through over again for any grammatical errors.

Main point (as what David has shared) break down a major goal to tiny goals. It'll be better that way to seeing things actually get done. :)

Re: Building Your Voice

Daniel Richard — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:59:35 -0000

I had actually thought Everett had coded his theme ground up. I'd say a voice gotta match with the appearance. Kinda like how a theme reflects an author's personality.

I'd like to add in a 2cents worth here for #3. A great place to find wonderful color combis (5 colors per theme) is http://kuler.adobe.com/

Use an open source tool like Gimp, or any image manipulation tool with an eyedropper to pick the colors for use in your personalized theme. :)

Re: How to Completely Screw Up Email Marketing

Daniel Richard — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:28:05 -0000

The "RE:". Was wondering if you were interested in the coupons widget to begin with.

Even if it's a reply, the message would be as simple as "Here's the widget, and following is a pdf guide on setting it up on your blog [ link to kick-ass coupon widget site ]" :)

Re: I’m Never Using the 5 Letter “B” Word Again

Daniel Richard — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:58:31 -0000

Save time thinking whether there's a need to say that word; go do 1 thing that comes into the mind, and smile, knowing that you've avoided saying the B word.

Liked point 5. There's definitely times when one can go wow at the state of nothingness, or that you've got things done for the day. :)

Daniel

Re: 15 Bits of Wisdom from 6 Months of Blogging Success

Daniel Richard — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:57:47 -0000

#9 - Apart from giving best for free, I had just given one of my better written posts as a guest post to a great blogging pal of mine. :)

#7 - Going pro sure helps big time. While I don't specifically set out to make any profit from my main blog, my main source of income was through other areas like helping others set up their sites along with some consultation help.

Re: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/439264842

Daniel Richard — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:41:23 -0000

"Thank you" and the "welcome" is never part of a brand strategy---it has to be in your dna.

Adding in something that just came to my mind: even with the ease of saying thanks to your fans / customers, let's try not to automate your sincerity, but actually mean it when you say thanks to the ones who matter to your business most. :)

Re: MetaLab Goes Open Source?

Daniel Richard — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:21:25 -0000

Was wondering if they changed the color scheme in the final build, would it still be considered a total rip off from this site.

Just thinking out loud here.

Re: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/420854779

Daniel Richard — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:41:01 -0000

I resonate with that. There was once (last year) I actually did quite a pushy pitch to a very popular blogger. Quite disgusted at my own action by looking back on it. :(

Hence the mantra by letting that making money part and adopted the same approach that you did by caring about doing good work. :)

Huge thanks Chad for replying to my comment. Appreciate lots!

Re: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/420854779

Daniel Richard — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:27:56 -0000

Yes, Gary's right on the patience part.

Adding 2 cents, it's more of a mindset thing. Being desperate for money can turn men (even with good intentions) into monsters.

I've got one personal mantra for this year when I started out with the first few businesses (I'm at like 3 that I'm earning from now): "Build good stuff. Grow."

Building is easy. Build to done, and you're already ready for launch.

It's the growing part that's the hardest, cos' that requires lots of patience---gotta keep sharing, willing to sell, talk, discuss, share more ... yeah, lots of work and patience.

Re: How Posting A New Interview Every Weekday Impacted My Twitter Follower Count [chart]

Daniel Richard — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:51:46 -0000

Heya Andrew,

I'm trying my best to keep up even to keep up with every new interview (your feed shows 340 to 380+ items from the very beginning). Listening to about 1 to 3 audio clips like once to twice a week while working away on my netbook.

Totally liked how you kept asking and probing your way to get answers out from every interviewee.

You deserve every increase of your following on Twitter. At 16k followers today, that's huge. :)