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Re: Google analytics tip: easy insights with day of the week data

strive4impact — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:46:21 -0000

Super helpful! Thank you!

Re: Here’s How You Can Win a Profitable Ecommerce Business and Over $3,000 Worth of Prizes — Ecommerce Marketing Blog - Ecommerce News, Online Store Tips & More by Shopify

strive4impact — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:22:20 -0000

To me, entrepreneurship means the ability to make a difference in other people's lives through high quality content and products which I can bring into their lives.

Being an entrepreneur means being a gift to others in a way that
contributes to their lives, and advances humanity through the spirit of
self-determination, personal accountability, and growth that comes as a
result of the difficult daily choices entrepreneurs must make.

Being an entrepreneur means offering employment to others and changing
their lives through the work that they do and income they earn through
the work we do together.

Being an entrepreneur means having the ability to control my time on a daily basis in a way that lets me be an example of the change I want to see in the world.

Re: Mobile Responsive, Drag and Drop Email Builder

strive4impact — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:54:24 -0000

So how would I get the drag and drop email builder? Or where do I go to see it?

Re: Watermelon Salad with Arugula, Goat Cheese, and Candied Walnuts

strive4impact — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:03:23 -0000

This looks AWESOME! I'm anxious to try it.

Re: Your Life as a Story: A Review of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

strive4impact — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:51:31 -0000

Beware the easy life... This reminds me of the phrase... If it's easy, it's probably sleazy.

On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with designing a life that ultimately ends up making an easy life for you. It just takes work to get there.

Thanks for the awesome reminders Ryan!

Jonathan

Re: Four Frustrations of a Business Author, Part 1

strive4impact — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:34:27 -0000

I love the Mark Twain example . It's very motivating to read that a classic like that just needed some time to work.

Re: Trust me: don’t tell me what you’re doing.

strive4impact — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:41:43 -0000

Or maybe your "enemies" are likely to acquire your friends. Your friends may have your best interest in mind. However, if your friends have been acquired by your enemies - prior to you sharing your ideas with those friends - they may have a prior obligation that they feel compelled to hold true to.

Re: My startup needs someone with a sexy voice

strive4impact — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:36:10 -0000

This is hugely insightful and a really good reminder of the importance of language. Thank you!

Re: What I Learned from the Breaking Bad Percolator

strive4impact — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:28:06 -0000

I forwarded this to my wife. I'll drink coffee if it's really good... like when we're in a place where coffee is produced (Panama, Vietnam, etc.).

She's pretty much the drink-coffee-like-how-you-shampoo category you've mentioned.

I think she's going to like this post a lot.

Thanks Dan!

Re: Shark Tank: The 3 worst startup mistakes made on TV’s best reality show

strive4impact — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:26:13 -0000

Hi Dan,

I've never seen SharkTank (yet). My uncle's
company was asked to be on the show, but then didn't get on because
they "had too many tech companies".

Anyway, reading this and your suggestions help me understand a couple of things:

1. I really need to get around people like you more often - even just through reading your blog. These are awesome tips.

2. I really need to watch some episodes of SharkTank.

Thank you for this write-up.

Jonathan Kraft

Re: Does What You’re Doing Actually Matter? (+ free workbook)

strive4impact — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:59:09 -0000

For 2 years I embodied my why.

It didn't pay financially, but it paid in every other way.

While I was emobodying my why:

- I felt great.
- My business fell apart.
- My income fell apart.
- Google changed the rules

And now I'm back to doing things for finances, rather than my why.

I spent 4 months job hunting, being told by the 400+ jobs that I actually applied for that I was overqualified.

So now I'm working for a friend, and have been stuck here for a year. But
I have the job in order to achieve real estate goals (have to have the
job to qualify for the loans we want to get for the cash flow real
estate we want), and even then, the real estate process has been
heartbreaking and felt to be moving at the speed of molasses on a flat
surface during a Canadian blizzard.

If my why doesn't pay financially, it doesn't work.

I don't know how to get my why to pay - at least not in a way that is
significant financially - at least not in a way that lets me do the
kinds of things I want to do.

It hurts my heart every day.

The people I've reached out to for help (the people who actually have the
answers I need/want - rather than those who think they have the answers)
want to charge me $250/hour for consulting - and those sessions have
achieved very little for me.

I've lost my belief, and I don't know how to get it back.

I completed your questions workbook... but it doesn't really seem to
matter... I've built a trap, and it seems I'm the only one who can get
out of it, because I'm the one who built the trap.

But I don't know the way out, and I don't want out if it just means more heartbreak
that things don't change, that people don't change, and that the world
doesn't get better.

I see that it does get better, people do change and improve, and that things do change, but I'm unable to do anything to grasp it for me in a way that's meaningful financially.

Evenif I do make it meaningful financially, it is affected by the whims of Google, the desires of large companies who perceive me as a threat when I really want to support their mission, and the people around who perceive that their reality is reality, rather than just their reality.

Of course there's a long back story behind all of this...

I don't even know why I'm writing this. It seems it doesn't matter anyway.

Iwould like to be the hopeful and optimistic person I am at my core, but right now I just want to say "Not Cool Robert Frost" about the Road Less Traveled. Not Cool at All.

I feel a part of me wanting to migrate over to that road of mediocrity - I want that part of me to jump off of a very tall building and land with a very loud and satisfying splat.

The world needs my voice - my enthusiasm, my care, and my insight.

But it seems to not want to pay me for it... at least not in a way that's meaningful.

And if that's the case... then at least with mediocrity I end up comfortable.

But it's not what I want. I want and believe in abundance... it's just that the path to get there is so unclear to me now.

What a rant... I'm stopping now.

Re: 6 Steps to Building a World-Changing Team (Plus, the Official Live Your Legend Team Revealed!)

strive4impact — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:03:33 -0000

I'm left feeling overwhelmed as well. You're not alone there...

Re: 6 Steps to Building a World-Changing Team (Plus, the Official Live Your Legend Team Revealed!)

strive4impact — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:01:09 -0000

I've hired a lot of people - consultants mostly, who have taken away from the business much more than they've contributed to it. That is not the case now... now I have a great team. But that takes time and process to get there... for some more than others. I was raised and taught to be an employee. Being an employer of the time, talents, skills, and interests of others is definitely something that takes time and focused attention. I'm still working on it - a lot.

Re: Comcast confirms full HBO Go access on Xbox 360 coming next week

strive4impact — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:53:20 -0000

Think about the amazing collaboration of technologies it took to even be able to make this announcement. Comcast, working with HBO, working with XBox. That is simply amazing.

Just 10 years ago, we were talking about how Google was indexing hundreds millions of pages online. Today, they are the connector of so many complementary technologies, and they probably index hundreds of millions of pages every week.

It's exciting to live in a world where smart people are able to spend time creating solutions through collaboration. In this case, it's all done in the name of entertainment. But it's most exciting to see people all over the world using similar kinds of collaboration to create solutions to humanity's greatest issues.

What an exciting time to be alive.

Jonathan
http://www.EnglishTeaLeaves...

Re: Creating Video for the Web – Examples, Strategies, and Pitfalls

strive4impact — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:52:55 -0000

Hey Jim!

Thanks for making the time to go and watch the videos, and for your compliments!

Yep, we should have been mic'd. But we didn't (and still don't, actually) have a camera that has a mic-in that works at the same time as recording the video. I've got this Apitek HD1080P that works great for video, but is really lame for non-first person audio since they put the microphone in the top (rather than the front) of the camera.

I'll be getting something new when we're back in the states at the end of April. I know you said you weren't going to get into recommendations, but anything stand out in the under $350 range with a mic plug-in?

Oh, and the cuy was fine to try... once.

Thanks Jim!

Warmest,

Jonathan
http://www.CarrieAndJonatha...

Re: Creating Video for the Web – Examples, Strategies, and Pitfalls

strive4impact — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:11:32 -0000

I definitely agree that it's not easy. Generally speaking, the general population also expects a lot from video and people making videos. TV has taught us to expect a lot by investing at least 8 hours into every 30 seconds we watch.

I do really like your point about choosing 2 of 3. I think if you're a sole producer of content, and you're working to produce daily content, sometimes it is possible to decide that the video is good enough. I know good is the enemy of great, but sometimes, especially if you're starting out producing daily video, good enough has to do, at least for now.

Some people I've talked with have a hard time understanding how I spent 5 hours of working on this one, but I decided it was good enough:
http://carrieandjonathan.co...

This one, however, took 20+ hours and is one of my favorites I've ever done for our site:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Thanks for your tips. The resources here are GREAT!

Jonathan
http://www.CarrieAndJonatha...

Re: Creating Video for the Web – Examples, Strategies, and Pitfalls

strive4impact — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:31:28 -0000

Really great post. I love the Chris Brogan video... have had some communication with him directly but had never seen that video, which is a really great example of authenticity in video.

I'm working through your resources list now.

Warmest,

Jonathan
http://www.CarrieAndJonatha...

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Kevin Gianni

strive4impact — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:15:42 -0000

These are good, no?

We had them at the turtle project every day, straight from the tree, in Costa Rica.

http://www.carrieandjonatha...

Good stuff Kevin!

Jonathan

Re: Trust Agents on a Plane

strive4impact — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:53:06 -0000

We thought this was absolutely brilliant and would have taken advantage of it had we not already bought plane tix for the couple of places we're traveling during that time period anyway. Would have been perfect for us, but we got the non-refundables via Travelocity.

We would definitely look into and likely take advantage of any offer like this in the future, especially if we had a little more advance notice of it.

Jonathan
http://www.GreatLegalBenefi...

Re: 1995 Was a Great Year for Social Media

strive4impact — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:37:58 -0000

I think that local search is a big thing, finding ways to engage and re-engage your local customers, but that's not exactly earth-shattering...

I don't really know what the next trend will be, but look forward to seeing what other people's feedback is here.

Warmest,
Jonathan
http://www.GreatLegalBenefi...

Re: Take 10 Minutes- Meet a Trust Agent

strive4impact — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:15:56 -0000

It took me a long time, even after they said "A translation" to understand that she was actually the one "speaking" through the video.

It's really odd, even to me, that my brain fought wanting to accept that.

Having been to countries where I don't speak the language, I guess I might understand a small portion of what her life is like... but only a very small portion.

This really is powerful. Thanks for sharing it Chris.

Jonathan
http://www.GreatLegalBenefi...

Re: Twitter’s DOS Attack (And Why Social Media Sucks)

strive4impact — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:24:07 -0000

"For the Sake of God's Green Earth, GET YOUR OWN DOMAIN!"

Amen, Amen, AMEN!

This should be required reading for anyone doing business online. I am constantly amazed at the number of people who say that they bought this or that course that says they don't need a web site. So they don't even own a domain.

They just send traffic from Adwords directly to some affiliate offer and hope and pray it works.

You're doing Internet Marketing but you don't have a web site? You don't even have a place to practice and see what MIGHT work?

That's just not a smart way to go (or grow).

GREAT Post Michelle!

Warmest,

Jonathan

Re: My Pledge to You

strive4impact — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:08:50 -0000

"humans and their expectations are funky, diverse, and contrary."

And often quite counter-intuitive to what you imagine they're going after. GREAT comment.

Chris, I'm going to echo much of the rest of the crowd. It's YOUR blog. You do a great job naturally of being sarcastic and satirical in person. You also offer some incredible help to people. Both things are who you are. It's fun and is you.

Why should your blog have to represent anything different than who you are, just because a few people took/take you the wrong way and didn't/don't get it?

Jonathan
http://www.ThreeMoneyMethod...

Re: You are the Captain

strive4impact — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:51:17 -0000

Thank-you Chris.

I feel like I've successfully figured out how to sail differently than others (which is a good thing because based on what I've seen, 90-95% of people don't really have what they want in life). But in doing so, it's like I have become very separated from the fleet of ships moving across the ocean.

I have become my own captain. I don't mind that so much, and I rather enjoy it, but I do find it difficult to reach like-minded people who are willing to take action on what they want to accomplish.

I guess I'm still looking for my sailing group. There are moments and times where I feel like I'm working with others to create something great, and other times where I feel really alone in what I want to accomplish, and feel really cynical about others' willingness to take actions and make changes that make a difference.

I feel like maybe I lack the skills or experience or charisma to be part of that group... that's not really it. I feel confident in my abilities, but why work so hard to share "good news" with others, when 80% of them who say they want "good news" will offer excuses about not having time to make changes, and would rather watch the nightly news and program their minds that way? And how do I find the 20% who really will make a difference, without being overrun and bombarded (and torpedoed) by the 80%?

I don't really know what the solution is there. And I keep looking for an answer to something that doesn't really have an answer.

Jim Rohn would say "Don't be perplexed by the perplexed. It's perplexing."

You're right... moving faster isn't necessarily the solution. I just sometimes think that if I move faster, I'll get "there" quicker. As you've rightly pointed out, maybe... maybe not... Lots of variables there.

I'm definitely looking for my tribe... my fleet.

I of course have friends and connections who want to see me succeed, and within the business, there are a few people who I've come to rely on in working on projects and outsourcing work to (after wading through SO many people who haven't done what they said they would do).

I want a bigger tribe. I want more connections. I just know that most of the people I connect with won't end up being part of the fleet, because they simply won't take action on the information they receive, and won't take action on what they want in life.

I will continue to work on finding more synergy with more people. I think that is powerful advice. Any suggestions from your own experience on how to go about doing so?

Thank-you again for your insight, and for making the time to respond.

Warmest,

Jonathan

Re: You are the Captain

strive4impact — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:19:21 -0000

Hey Chris,

Wow.

Huge insight in this post. I've been looking over my ship a lot lately and it's moving along very well, but not as quickly as I would like it to move. Any suggestions for ways to take a ship (an Internet business that's doing very well (by most people's standards)) and throw some giant motors on the back?

Thanks again for the post.

Warmest,

Jonathan
http://www.ThreeMoneyMethod...