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Archive for January, 2007

Primary Aim

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

The first question any budding entrepreneur may want to ask themselves is: “What is my primary aim?” Running a business will probably play a very prominent role in your life so it’s important to know your goals, and reasons for taking on such a challenge. You may want to start by taking some [...]

Winning with Candor

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Jack Welch is a winner. In his many years as the head of General Electric he has proven himself as more than competent at leading a corporation and it’s people to great success. Mr. Welch, after working his way up the corporate ladder became CEO of GE in 1981 and held that position for [...]

Importance of Leadership to Business Success

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Great leaders are made, not born.
Leadership is a requirement to any successful business because the nature of of good leadership is that it provides important direction to an organization. But the one thing that Leaders need in order to be Leaders is: Followers. Forcing people to be your followers will never work, but there [...]

Mind Maps

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

When I’m bored strange things can happen. Today I tried to draw up a mind map. It’s a tool to think about how things react and interact. This is what I came up with for the HalOtis company. This gives me a list of things that I either have to do, or learn more about. [...]

The Value of Burning your Feeds

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Last week I re-directed my RSS feeds for this site to go through FeedBurner. FeedBurner provides two main features that are nice to have for RSS feeds.

I can know how many people are reading my RSS. As a gauge for traffic and interest having that number right there on my page makes it [...]

Increasing Traffic

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Today HalOtis is involved in a small project to increase the traffic to several websites.  I will be promoting this blog and my personal blog www.halotis.com/otis as well as the main company site www.halotis.com by posting links back to the sites on various forums, and submitting the sites to search engines and social networking sites.  [...]

Pay Per Post

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Yesterday I signed up for the Pay Per Post website. I was able to register my personal blog at www.halotis.com/otis in their system which means that I can now get paid about $5 USD to post reviews. Some of the people on the site have made in excess of $4000 USD through the [...]

Buying Real Estate

Monday, January 8th, 2007

When investing in real estate your money is made when you buy not when you sell. There are two basic investment situations, either you’re picking up a piece of property to sell again, or you’re looking for a passive rental income. In both cases make sure you make your money on the buy side.
When [...]