Huh?
You ask: “I don’t get it? What is this site about?”
Quick and dirty: This site is my way to explore my passion. My passion is to help other people, who are just beginning their first steps into the online business world, get their feet underneath them. The blipfish.com blog is my way of coaching, helping, teaching, and giving insight into the issues many new business people face online. The greatest emphasis is to help those who are starting up online retail using print-on-demand (POD) services for clothing, books, music, etc.
If you want to (or already have begun) start an online business and you’ve realized there’s more to do than just signing up with a service… then that’s where I would like to help you.
It’s one thing to sign up with a POD company, make an account, set up a store, and tell your friends and family… it’s another thing to learn how to run it as a business. It’s at this point I really love to get involved and help guide others because I’ve been there too and it can be an exciting time with a steep learning curve. We can’t do everything on our own all the time.
That’s what blipfish.com is about – helping you when it’s time to take the training wheels off and start running your online business like a real, profitable business.
My 90/10 rule…
It means that 90% of the time I give 90% business-related info. That doesn’t mean that it’s dry, boring, marketing talk. “Business-related” (in my world) can cover a variety of topics and can get quite interesting. If it relates to how I do what I do, or something that happens with my business, a peer, the industry, etc. it can be considered business-related. That leaves 10% of the time I might veer off because all work and no play makes blipfish a dull boy and honestly… I’m not a one dimensional person and I think there’s a mild benefit to you nice folks seeing something other than just business stuff.
I have to be true to myself and that includes sometimes sharing a little bit about me and my day because, I’ve found, when people see how I live some of my daily life (including hearing about my challenges such as working from home, a family with kids, computer issues, falling asleep at the keyboard, etc.) they learn a little about how others operate. I’m a real person and I face many of the same things you’ll face. So, to let you in on my workday, even if it seems a little non-business, I think helps us relate to one-another… because I’ve been down this road too.