This post is a question, more than an answer. I’m a bit confused as to why, when I’m giving away something for free that has real value, people aren’t going for it as much as I would have suspected they would. My latest venture launched a week or so ago at DeclareMedia.com. We are building [...]
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Don Loper is a collection of commentary by Utah SEO firm proprietor Joshua Steimle on the topics of business and entrepreneurship, web design, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and business in Utah.
The most popular feature is "You might be an entrepreneur if..." It started with my post entitled What it Means to be an Entrepreneur and now I'm in the process of adding detail to each of the 75 points I came up with based on my own experiences.
There’s not much use trying to hide it any longer. If you really must know what big secret thing I’ve been working on, the cat’s out of the bag. Go check it out at DeclareMedia.com. There are already 720 live directories, and probably 10,000 more coming online in the next six months. Yes, I am [...]
15 years ago I thought being a successful businessman meant being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. 10 years ago I thought it meant being the CEO of a large advertising agency, providing services to Fortune 500 companies. Either way, I dreamed of big buildings, big revenues, lavish and stylishly modern offices, nice clothes, [...]
Boy, it’s tough to let go of dreams. To recap, briefly; since 1997 I’ve dreamed of getting an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Everything I’ve done academically and professionally has, if not directed specifically towards that end, been done with it in mind. The reasons why that was my goal are well-documented on this [...]
Today is one of the most exciting days of my life. It represents the culmination…ok, not the culmination, but the beginning of the culmination of 10 years of work. Today I launched a project which, to the casual observer, may seem like no big deal, but when you understand the numbers in aggregate, then it [...]
As though I need another blog…although if you were following all of those I have you’d notice I haven’t posted on most of them in some time, other than my triathlon blog. My posts come in spurts depending on what I’m interested in at the moment. The new blog is now up and running [...]
08
Jun
I Quit.
I would like to announce my resignation from the Doba + Shopify experiment for one of the following reasons: a. I want to spend more time with my family. b. I want to spend more time hiking the Appalachian trail. c. I want to spend more time with my Argentinian mistress. d. I really, really [...]
Since there is no direct integration between Shopify and Doba you have to copy over everything manually. This isn’t too tough…unless you need to do it for a few hundred products. Adding a single product is fairly straightforward. You download the image from the Doba site (BTW, the “download image” link doesn’t work in FireFox, [...]
It’s been a while since I posted on this experiment. I’ve been sick, had a baby, have been busy with my day job, am training for a marathon, and was just elected a state delegate, amongst other things. I’ve just been busy, and I keep thinking I need to get on this, but then things [...]
Several people have commented on how many books I read, since I’m always updating the WeRead app on Facebook with 2-3 or more books per week. To answer that question once and for all, the answer is triathlons. What do triathlons have to do with reading, you ask? Well, I train for anywhere from 10-15 [...]
