Are you looking for money for your business? Are you an investor looking for a new high return investment vehicle? Well this might help you indirectly get in the Black and help you get funding or find a new investment. I put this quick survey together. Please take the time to answer the questions and I will discuss the results. You can also see the results once you answer the questions. This will help people see what I think is a huge need for financing for Entrepreneurs around the globe and a big investment opportunity for many people that have never thought about investing or loaning to small businesses before.

Well, good PR and Marketing is better than no PR and Marketing don’t you think? Just wanted to get a yes out of you right up front here. The answer is yes of course!

So, the nice folks over at the Fox Business Website were kind enough to feature one of the companies that I helped start today and that is a great way to start off 2012.

The great thing that is now allows us to say is this.

“As Featured On Fox Business News” —–> READ MORE

Tags: Fox News, PR

Do You Have A Start Up And Need A Website?

We are actively looking for Start Ups that need a Website. There are a couple of things that we can offer you.

• One, we have started over a dozen companies ourselves
• We know what you you need to get you up and running as as quickly as possible
• If you need a fast Demo site our turn-around times can make your head spin
• We can build easy to complex sites and not let you go down a blind alley with design or functionality
• We have financing available to help your cash flow! You can have a $40,000 site built for only $1,064 per month, a $20,000 site built for under $590 per month, a $10,000 site built for under $270 per month, or a $5,000 site built for less than $134 per month! —–> READ MORE

Tags: Start Ups, Websites

Scars On 45

Scars On 45 on Twitter

I went to go see a band play last night called Scars On 45.  You may have heard them on Gray’s Anatomy and they have a couple of songs out now that you may be hearing on the radio. Well, I am letting you know now that you should plan on hearing a lot more of them over the coming years.  They have the ability to be a break out band.

The reason that I am writing about them today is that in chatting with Chris who is their Drummer slash Social Media manager, I told them that I would give them a hand with getting the word out and this is the first part in doing that. We are going to follow their Social Media popularity and hopefully we can show you how to crush your Social Media like we are going to for Scars On 45.

Here is one of their songs.

And this one… —–> READ MORE

Tags: Scars On 45, Social Media Strategies, Twitter

Have to say like many of you I was saddened more than words can say by the news that Steven Jobs has passed away.

While I never met him, I did see the genius of his shadow from close up. I came on board Apple to work on an ancillary project the very same week he was ousted from Apple. In fact I toured Apple headquarters the very next day and I have never walked by some many hundreds of people so eerily quite.

I ran into his shadow again in Ann Arbor when I got to play with the Genius that was the Next computer when it first came out. I remember I was the only one standing around the table with this wonderful machine.  I lost myself playing with just some of what it could do. The software back then was decades ahead of it’s time.  I could not believe what it was capable of…

Much of that software is the basis of all that is Apple today.

Then I was yet again astounded with what came out of Pixar.  I was taken to a magical place of animation that seemed as real as real life.

Then as the iPod and iPhone and finally the iPad came out, there could be no denying that he was one of a kind that only came along so very rarely.

You will be missed by millions of course and by this one man who got to see your shadow up close.

And you will touch even those who don’t appreciate how you have changed their lives for the better, made them happier, brighter, and eased their day as your shadow does indeed cover nearly the whole world.

May you live on in bits and bytes everywhere.

Andrew Easy Anderson

Tags: Steve Jobs

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How You Can Make More Money Starting Right Now

I hardly ever login to Linkedin and only do Facebook about once a week if that.  Plus, I  have been keeping my Twitter to a minimum these days which is a whole other blog post, but in my quarterly login to Linkedin, I came across one of what I think is one of the core truths about making money.

The first time I heard something similar, it stopped me in my tracks and here is what I distilled that rather shocking moment down to.

“The Key to being successful is to become great at what you are good at, not becoming mediocre at what you do poorly”- Andrew Anderson

And that my friend is pretty much the secret to making money in a nut shell.

If you every really want to get ahead, you need to figure out what you are good at and say to heck with the rest. Become the best that you can be at it.

Let people that love to do what you hate do it for you.  If you can pay someone to do laundry and it costs you less or even the same as what you love to do, let them do it.

Same goes with Yard work, and everything else.

When you do things you don’t like, you are not going to do them as fast or as well and it takes time from practicing and getting good at what will truly make you money.  The mind set may be foriegn to you, but it works.

When someone tells me they have a maid or domestic help, I think what a smart cookie. I used to think they were lazy or pretentious.  Shows you how truly ignorant I was.  They were actually smart and had a lot more money and free time than I did.  But I eventually figured it out.

Now you can too.

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson

Tags: Doing What You Love, Money

Using A Transcription Service Makes You More Money

I get asked quite often what is the best way to easily add more to the bottom line and perhaps the easiest one of all is using a Transcriptionist instead of a typing things out yourself.

Why you might ask?  Well, it is because you already know how to talk and I bet you can’t type 100 words a minute.  Plus, you won’t make money when you are typing. You make money by doing whatever wonderful thing that you do that is unique and wonderful.

Think about this. The average person can speak 7,000 to 10,000 words per hour.  Bet you know some people that can blow those numbers away.  Some books only have 40,000 words in them.

So, in 4 or 5 hours you can get out the book you have always been thinking about writing! LOL

But really, it is about not wasting time on things that you are not good at and spending time on things that you are great at. That is how you make money.  It is not what they teach you in college or any type of schools for the most part. They always tell work on your weaknesses.

WRONG!!!! —–> READ MORE

Tags: Doing Things You Love, Transcription

Well, it has been one of those weeks with Murphy in full force.    I managed to take out my computer and my car each in less than 5 seconds since this last weekend.

While I knew it was possible,  I had just never done it myself.  While I was driving less than five mph, apparently that was 4 mph too fast when driving during a gully washer and you have a mini-creek in the middle of a suburban street, you can take out an alternator in one big splash.  Thank goodness for AAA.  Love you guys!!!! You Rock!

While chatting with a client on Skype from the comfort of my cushy chair, and swiveling around to grab a file, little did I know that by having the headset get stuck in said chushy swivel chart that you can pull over your computer that just so happened to have a 1 terabyte external hard drive on it where I store most of my work and my anti-virus software.  Said hard drive make a terrible noise and died with a spasm right after it hit the floor.

Can you say ARGGGHHHH…  That is when I figured out the limitations of my back up system.  Looks like it may be another two weeks to see what can be recovered.  And because I did not get my anti-virus reloaded to the main drive in the first hour, guess what? You guessed, 4 bazillion infections later.   The good news it was and is all contained.  But wow, what a pain in the butt.   But there is the 3 doozies for you.

Now of course if I had been using what we put our clients on I would have been fine but hey, that would have taken an couple of extra hours to do.

Guess what?  I have lost about 30 hours of productivity and counting now.

So, let this be a lesson to you.  Don’t drive in Torrential Downpours if you don’t have to.  Don’t put external hard drives anywhere they can fall off and make sure your back up systems are fully up-to-date!  Oh, and don’t go on the Web for even two seconds without Virus Protection.

Drowning your car and killing a hard drive and getting some viruses all officially and unofficially suck.

That being said, it won’t happen again and it could have been a whole lot worse.

I only have about 150 urgent emails to answer and if you are one of them, I will get back with you ASAP.

Cheers,
Andrew