3 Things to Remember to Get Back on Your Feet

May 18, 2010

If you’re new here, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! For as long as I can remember, I’ve always thought of myself as an entrepreneur. And for an entrepreneur (for anybody actually), the road to success is often a bumpy one. There are ups, and many downs. That’s life, isn’t? [...]

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Why Jesus Would Have Been a Blogger and How You Can Become Jesus

May 12, 2010

Jesus was a marketing specialist (Note: this is an article about blogging not religion). He had a message to convey and wanted people to listen. Since Twitter or TV didn’t exist 2,000 years ago, he had to be very creative. He chose to give speeches in public spaces to reach as many people as possible. [...]

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The Unbearable Lightness of Blogging or How to Avoid Insignificance

May 4, 2010

You’ve been thinking about it lately. You can’t take that idea out of your mind especially when you go to sleep. At first, you thought it was just the little voice in your head (the bad one), but in the past few days, you’ve started to realize that perhaps, you had to accept the reality. [...]

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Four Questions to Ask Yourself to Improve the Content of Your Blog

May 1, 2010

I know it’s hard. We all want to live in certainty. Yet, I truly believe that the pain is worth it. Article after article, you have to keep on questioning yourself. Is my messaging clear enough? Am I really meeting the needs of my readers? Am I adding any value?    Although these are not [...]

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3 Dangers to Avoid When Launching a Blog

April 27, 2010

I’ve come to realize that the journey to launching a blog is a dangerous one. There are many obstacles that came in my way while I was setting it up.  The thing is, I had a hard time remaining focused on my online business objectives. Below are three specific pitfalls that almost brought me on the dark side [...]

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How I Made All the Beginner Blogger Mistakes and Why I’m Proud of It

April 25, 2010

I started this blog a month ago with a very clear objective in mind no objective. Well, I had a goal, a vague one, an intention I should say. This intention was to express myself. So I started writing about what I had in mind and topics that I knew about. Then the problems began.   [...]

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The Chinese Go Red: Bordeaux, Ganbei, and Karl Marx

April 17, 2010

I told you I would share interesting stories about China. Well, here is one. The Chinese are getting tired of their Maotai, that strong Chinese liquor that often has a profound and devastating impact on defenseless laowai (foreigners) being received by warm and cheerful Chinese hosts. It seems that some Chinese are increasingly willing to trade their rice [...]

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The Chinese Won’t Steal Your Job… If You Read This (PART I)

April 10, 2010

You’ve heard it. The Chinese are on a shopping spree, buying foreign energy assets and natural resources all around the world. They are even becoming major consumers of luxury goods, original ones I mean. Manufacturing plants are closing down in the West as jobs are sent to China where Chinese workers are paid a fraction [...]

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The Dark Side of Labels and Why You Should Avoid Them

April 4, 2010

We love to simplify things. Actually, we love to oversimplify. That makes our life easier, doesn’t it? Well, that is understandable. We have to make so many choices everyday: choosing a school program, the shampoo, the TV channel, the home insurance, etc. And life is full of complicated things: asset-backed commercial paper, climate change, women… [...]

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Blame China

March 29, 2010

Going over recent headlines about China, I came up with an idea: to suggest to South Park’s creators a slightly different version of the “Blame Canada” song. The thing is, China is getting a lot of bad press. Industrial espionage, currency manipulation, Internet censorship, unsafe products, the list goes on and on. We could almost conclude that without China, [...]

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