The Newly Rich

I’m curious to see when (if ever) there will be an intersection between visitors to this site and my professional colleagues.

This weekend I’m in Miami at the IASummit. I present in an about an hour as part of a panel on Practical Prototyping.

Next weekend I’ll be in Toronto at FITC. It’ll be my 5th year in a row going to this one- it’s always a great time.

If by some chance you’re attending either of these conferences, give me a shout!

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Around the time when my wife and I went to Mexico, I was thinking about people who had influenced me earlier in my life. I imagine everyone has a list of people they keep telling themselves they need to get in touch with. My sister-in-law’s grandfather related a story where he finally went and visited [...]

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When you hear “personal assistant,” selling some of your less-prized possessions is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But it should be.

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No, this is not an April Fool’s joke.

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Eliminating the obvious time- and space-wasters is a great first step. After you get those out of the way, it’s time to start making the tougher decisions.

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We started in India, then moved onshore. A few weeks ago, I added a new assistant to the roster, and he lives right here in Chicago.

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10 years ago I took a college class that inspired me. Each week we listened to entrepreneurs tell their stories. The only assignment for the class was to read the E-myth Revisited and write a short paper. I used to think to myself “someday I’m going to come back here and speak.”
Last week I did [...]

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This week, I’ll share another example of how our assistant has been used to perform simple business-related tasks.
Get my payroll automated
George-
I use a service called PayCycle* where I submit hours logged on a weekly basis. The problem is that every week the hours are exactly the same, but I still have to manually approve them [...]

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Taking a quick break from the usual outsourcing examples this week. I’ve been thinking lately about how our experience during the past year of Personal Outsourcing has differed from my initial expectations. As I read and talk to more people that are trying it out, I find these differences are not uncommon.
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Today’s example was the first “ongoing” task I requested of our virtual assistant.
Having an online business, I wanted to know how it stacked up against our leading competitor by measuring Google search rankings. Not only that, but I wanted to gauge how my company rankings changed week-to-week compared to my competitor. This was a [...]

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