http://www.terrafirms.com e-commerce, e-services, e-promotion Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:25:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'd love to talk about success here, to inspire others, and to shed some light about what it takes to be successful. However, I am not yet successful though I believe that I am on the right path to success. One thing that I do want to talk about is the ... http://www.terrafirms.com/not-another-hurdle The 10x question is a simple concept. ... Let's start with basic human behaviour. Most humans think linearly. If you currently make $1000 a week and you want to start making $2000 a week, most people would automatically think this: 1- I need to work twice as long 2- I need to make twice ... http://www.terrafirms.com/the-secret-to-being-10-times-happier-the-10x-question As part of my new years resolution, I had given myself a deadline and a concrete goal to increase our revenues for http://horsepowercalculators.net from around $150 to $200 per month up to around $2000 per month. Although this 10x growth might seem highly unlikely to people working in day jobs ... http://www.terrafirms.com/founder-frustrations-ff Success is often thought of as the result of a series of 'successful' decisions. A successive series of doing the right thing and avoid the caveats. But maybe there's a different way to think about success and that is to look at execution rather than perfection. This isn't a novel theme ... http://www.terrafirms.com/a-different-take-on-success I love google web toolkit but some times it needs to be extended to do some fancy stuff. One of the things I've been working on recently is revamping our software for better look and feel, higher user engagement and better user experience. Consumers now are accustomed to nice web2.0 like buttons ... http://www.terrafirms.com/tech-gwt-button-with-background-images The perfect man is a man who lives up to other people's expectations of him. By age 30 the perfect man has one or two degrees from college. Has been employed for 5 or more years at corporate. He holds a good position in his company as a middle manager. He ... http://www.terrafirms.com/the-perfect-man As an entrepreneur you are always working towards the future, you are always dreaming, you are always working towards higher everything... higher traffic, higher sales, higher conversion rates, higher efficiencies, higher margines, higher average cost per transaction, higher customer lifetime value and higher lifetime value TO the customer. This is all ... http://www.terrafirms.com/dreams-in-the-rain-google-and-thongs The Day After I posted my 6 month 'update' to my facebook notes, Seth Godin (my personal marketing guru and inspiration) posted to his blog asking 'What did you ship in 2010?' 2010 has been very productive for me personally, though I have even MORE plans for 2011 (maybe getting to ... http://www.terrafirms.com/yearinreview-what-did-you-ship-in-2010 Right Click, Save As : www.terrafirms.com/kirix.mpg ... http://www.terrafirms.com/kiri-commercial My process: Dream - Research - Outline - Plan - Prioritize - Execute The problem most people have is that they get lost, disheartened or tired before 'execute'...and that last bit, is where all the proof is ... Try to think about your process and try to figure out where it breaks ... http://www.terrafirms.com/starting-to-execute