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Author Archives: J. D. Bentley

Developing an Online Business in Bursts of Madness

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Lately I’ve written about how agility is the most important characteristic an online business can have and I really can’t emphasize that enough. If you want to get anywhere online, you have to be agile. Period. That’s why the little guys are the ones who win big on the web. They can move in ways…

How to Succeed Online without a Business Plan

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Although I had been self-employed and freelancing since 2007, it wasn’t until January of 2009 that I legally founded my first company. It wasn’t that I hadn’t thought of doing it before… I had. What kept me from it was how complicated every business book makes it sound. I was reading books like The Six-Week…

All It Takes Is Persistence

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My roughest year was, without a doubt, 2007. I had quit college after just five weeks and had barely settled down before I started having gallbladder attacks. The resulting surgery forced me into whatever work I could get to pay off the hospital bill. In my case, this work came in the form of two…

The Accidental Minimalist and the Truth About The Internet Lifestyle

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I have been afforded the privilege of waking up without an alarm clock, something most people can only dream of. On beautiful, sunny summer mornings I wake up anywhere between 9am and noon and I go for a walk. I enjoy each and every day. When I work, it doesn’t feel like work. It’s not…

How To Make Your Blog Boring As Fuck

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With so many newcomers jumping aboard the blogging bandwagon, I’m really discouraged by the fact that there aren’t more boring blogs out there. The amount of interesting content we have on the web now is overkill, pure and simple. If you’re like me (and I’m willing to bet you are), then you’d rather resentfully wade…