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How to sign a PDF witho...

Have you ever been emailed a form to print and sign, then fax back? Ugggg, how cumbersome! Here is a better way…sign it with a saved signature image, and email it back within seconds. In this “HOW TO”, I’ll show you how I set up my Adobe Acrobat to do this for me....

Brandon Opens His First...

So Matt and Brandon have both become seasoned internet entrepreneurs. Using the latest cloud based tools and building worldwide companies in the virtual “ether” known as the world wide web. But to open a local retail establishment is new to Brandon and a challenging...

Getting Demographic Inf...

We’ve mentioned on the show a few times that we use a combination of Quantcast and Google Analytics to measure our web traffic. You can get some basic information about your site for free from Quantcast, and a lot more if you signup for a plan and pay them. It’s pretty...

Pillars of the Automate...

Start Before You Are Ready – You can plan forever and never go anywhere. Many of us spend to much time planning too far out into the future. The further in the future you plan goes, the more likely you are wrong. Our solution? Plan for the short-term, and adapt. Sure it’s...

Automating Your Informa...

Your consumption of information is something that is very difficult to automate.  Most of us spend more time than we need to consuming information, and You have to spend some time consuming the information that you want to learn, but this doesn’t mean that you can’t optimize...

Finding Your Global Wor...

An important part of the automated business system is to design your business so that you don’t have to run it. As you are designing your new business, you should be planning how to automate your business processes because if you have to run the business, then it is not automated. ...

Automating, Outsourcing...

Business is always about competition, but in a down economy the competition is even more fierce for less customers. If you want your small business to survive the downturn, you need to reevaluate your business, and automate, outsource, and optimize everything you can. Evaluate What is...

The Importance of Just ...

The hardest part of starting an Internet business is actually starting.  I know that when I was getting started, I spent a lot of time researching and trying to refine my idea.  I wanted the idea to be bullet proof before starting.  This probably delayed me from starting a few months,...

Automating Bookkeeping ...

If you are the owner of a service-based small business, then you know that keeping track of hours and invoicing your customers can take up a lot of your time.  I’ve been helping my wife automate her therapy business, and one of the first things I noticed is that bookkeeping, time...

Entrepreneur vs. Self E...

There are literally millions of small businesses. Some are one person and some are a few hundred employees. There are so many small businesses, it almost seems that everyone is doing it. Almost everyone IS doing it. It is a smart thing to do, just for the tax benefits alone. But just...