If there's one business I have a lot of experience in it's outsourcing. I myself have been using offshore labor to work on my ever expanding idea list for more than twelve years now. My journey has taken me to many different countries and even gotten me in the business of selling outsourcing as a [...]

I wasn't at all surprised to see today's Groupon promoting Shutterfly. I myself tried to get them to market Vino.com a while back but my site wasn't big and famous enough for them. It had been a long shot all along but I had to try. After all, Groupon is nothing more than a super [...]

In an effort to subsidize part of my costs for my Philippine outsourcing operations, I'm going to accept three and only three clients. This is by no means my core business and I don't intend on making it so. I'm looking for just a few small to mid-size customers who need writers, SEO people or graphics designers [...]

This is my third post in my Lessons Learned series and my first about sales and marketing. I may come back to management in the coming days or weeks as I continue to work through these in my own head. As previously stated, this exercise is for my benefit as much as yours. I'm putting them in [...]

This is part 1b of my lessons learnedseries. Part 1 is about managing techniques and philosophies. As mentioned in part 1a, this exercise is as much for me as it is for you. I need to type this out to remind myself of what is important. Today’s lesson: Sometimes you hire the right person but [...]

I've decided to take my own advice. Lately I've been doing a lot of reorganizing and repositioning within my organization. I've been basing many of my decisions on the same cliché's I'm always preaching. The thing is, I don't always listen to my own sermons. So I'm writing a new series based on those simple [...]

Since we launched our diamond division I've had multiple friends reach out to me and tell me they would like me to help them find a stone. I'm happy to have the chance to do business with them. For those that don't know, we can FedEx diamonds to you and let you look at them [...]

World's First and Largest Domain Conference Brings Online Industry to Las Vegasrts and network with the biggest and best names of the domain industry. BOCA RATON, FL - The internet conference that formally launched the Domain Industry in 2004 will hold is first show of 2010 at Las Vegas, Nevada January 21 through 23.  The [...]

In March of 2010 ICANN will stage an event in Kenya. Being that it's only a reasonable drive from Kilimanjaro a climb needs to happen. Want to join us? We'll be raising awareness and hopefully a lot of dough for The Water School in the process, a non-profit organization supported by Internet businessman extraordinaire Gregg [...]

It's been a while since I've posted on this blog. I've been busy restarting various business units. I'm using that term loosely because it's been my rallying call here in Manila during my stay on this trip. You see, we recently moved into a new office in the Philippines and significantly ramped up our staff. [...]