Yesterday (Sunday), I spent the entire day from about 8am until about 10pm playing catch up with all the outstanding work from my ecommerce business. This was while everyone else was at the beach cooling off from the nearly 50 degree (yes 50 degree C!) scorcher of a day that we were having.

Shit it’s hard when it’s blue skies and a gorgeous day outside but you don’t get anywhere without sacrifices so it has to be done. Sooo happy at the end of the day though at all that I managed to get done and it set me up in the right mindset to get going again after the break.

Today was really my first day back at ‘life’ though, after living the Aussie dream with family for the last 2 weeks and of course struggling to get to sleep last night.

The day started with what I knew was going to be the hardest part of all… exercise!… ... Continue Reading

This shit really boils my piss.

Social media and the mainstream media has made entrepreneurship ‘cool’ and fashionable now.

We are in the age of instant gratification coupled with a large percentage of people feeling like they want and in many cases ‘deserve’ to enjoy life, travel, follow their passions, work from anywhere and do just about anything other than the 9-5 and that everyone can do these things.

You are being bombarded by messaging that you can easily get rich quick or get famous from posting some holiday or ass pics on social media.

You constantly get stories pushed at you about people who have seemingly achieved ‘overnight success’, claims that you can become a millionaire, quit your day job and be a successful entrepreneur in a short amount of time, images of flash cars, mansions and yachts and beautiful people frolicking on beaches and always, always making out as if it’s not difficult or that you can avoid actual hard work….… ... Continue Reading

So ‘My 2 Cents’ is a content series I plan to try to see if people get any value from it and this is the first post in the series.

What you can expect from this is when I check my RSS reader for the latest goings on in the marketing world (and some cross over with entrepreneurship, business, career etc), I want to start pulling out interesting articles and giving you my own take on the story based on my own experience.

Sometimes I might stick to the original article closely when providing this, but other times I might start on the topic and go in a different direction. It all depends on the topic and my experience or opinion in/on the topic really.

So here is the original article I came across this morning:

“How to gain credibility when you have little experience” – https://hbr.org/2017/10/how-to-gain-credibility-when-you-have-little-experience

Below is my 2 cents on this topic:

Firstly you need to make sure your expectations are in check

If you are fresh out of school, college or university then don’t expect or think you deserve a mid – higher level role with a nice big salary.… ... Continue Reading