The more comfortable we get with new technologies, the more accustomed we get to looking for an easy solution to our problems. Not to say we’re trending toward laziness or cutting corners to find an easier way out, I’ve just noticed that the ways of the olden days are in …
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Read MoreJanuary 2, 2008 Category: Entrepreneur News 17 Comments 
Most of you know how YGG began. For those that don’t, it was simply a forum created in spite of another for young entrepreneurs. There were a small group of us that back in August of ’05 decided to join Eric and contribute to his little community rather than respond to the same “what business should I start” questions on the site we all left.
At that time I didn’t know much about Eric. He always had a bit of attitude in his replies. I liked that. As YGG slowly grew, I saw pictures of him marrying his lovely wife Diana. I saw his first house. I started to chat with him a little more.
In early ’06 I approached him with the idea of partnering to build an enormous community for young go getters. Some 9 months and two horrible developers later, we ended up with an iframe madness at a time where we really knew nothing about CMS (content management systems) or blogging. Fortunately, that site was short-lived.
We started to go in the right direction when we made the move to WordPress. A developer in Alaska by the name of Brandon, was kind enough to lend a hand in helping develop our first version of the blog. Since then we’ve gone through 2 more versions/styles of the site, have been interviewed by blogs and media of all sizes, and grown to a substantial size with members, readers, and subscribers all over the world with a passion for entrepreneurship and helping one another.
Back in November Eric and I tried our best to plan for a series of updates to the site. We had plenty of big ideas, topics just dying to be written, and possibly a leap to a new platform. With Eric moving into his second house and me juggling a client and several projects, the stars never seemed to align.
The options were to either keep at it or consider selling the site. Had we gone with the first option the irregular flow of content would have been consistent for many months to come, if not forever. I think we both became over-occupied to maintain our hopefull momentum.
So instead of apologizing every other post for not living up to our promises, we set out to find someone we thought could help YGG grow to the size and quality we’d always discussed.
Read MoreDecember 31, 2007 Category: Entrepreneur News 40 Comments
The more I deal with big business customer service, the more I realize they’re there just for lip service. A company can claim they put their customers first, but many fail at living up to that statement.
In the past month I’ve had a great and a horrible customer service experience. I’ll share them with you hoping to highlight the do’s and don’ts from a service rep’s perspective.
Hello? Umh, hello?
We recently received our internet and television bill in the mail, late as usual. I’ve called them previously to the correct the timing to no avail. I open the bill to see how much I owe this month and for what. I’ve become somewhat of an expert at reading these because I work in the industry and always seem to be overcharged.
Read MoreDecember 28, 2007 Category: Articles 30 Comments
This time of year is always the quietest in the blogging world. For many of us, it is the only time we’re able to gather with our family and friends. No matter your religion or beliefs, it’s a period of rest where you get to reflect on the year just passed.
Hopefully later this …
Read MoreDecember 24, 2007 Category: Entrepreneur News 12 Comments
While some may think video games are primarily useful for developing a hunched back and carpel tunnel, they’ve also been known to improve dexterity, eyesight, and responsiveness.
I myself am a “gamer” - although I prefer to be called a “Lieutenant Colonel’. ;) I spend a good amount of time playing video games, nowhere near as much as Matt Brett, but still an hour or so every few days.
One genre of games that is really starting to take off is self-improvement. These games aren’t brought to you by Tony Robbins or Steve Pavlina. Rather, they’re almost exclusively available for Nintendo platforms (the Wii and primarily the handheld DS) under the name of Touch Generation.
Unlike the games you may have played when you were a kid in school, these aren’t your typical 2+2=4 on a computer from 1987 games. And they’re not really aimed at children. They’re made for gamers of all ages (6-60) that may be looking to improve themselves in some way and have fun while they’re at it.
Read MoreDecember 20, 2007 Category: Articles 14 Comments
You invested several years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars into learning the processes of every procedure in your industry. You know the exact steps needed to write a business plan. You won’t consider running an ad unless it opens with a headline and closes with a tagline. Step by step wasn’t a family sitcom starring Suzanne Somers, it’s your life story.
The thing is, there comes a point where you can overflow with processes. Your work begins to resemble it’s ancestors. Each letter, website, product, looks all too familiar. While plagiarism is an issue in every market, when you start to accuse yourself of it there’s a problem.
Read MoreDecember 12, 2007 Category: Articles 13 Comments
Why Traffic, Your Subscriber Count and Money Doesn’t Matter
Live by the numbers, die by the numbers. An interesting opinion on the unimportance of blogging metrics.
Designing For Flow
A List Apart breaks down the process of designing for flow into four steps to help you improve your process and your user’s experience.
Fail.
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December 8, 2007 Category: Entrepreneur News 2 Comments
Has it ever been an awkwardly quiet month or two on YGG? I could have made this a Digg-worthy list post, “100 ways to apologize to your readers for being busy and/or lazy”. But of course, that would have taken an enormous amount of time that I haven’t …
Read MoreDecember 4, 2007 Category: Entrepreneur News 16 Comments
I noticed a post on the 37signals product blog that wrote about Darius’ COLOURlovers. Their idea was to use the colour palettes on CL to spice up your Basecamp account, if you so happen to use one for project management.
Eric and I have been using Basecamp somewhat faithfully for the past …
Read MoreNovember 28, 2007 Category: Articles 14 Comments