Just finished reading Deep Work, a great argument on today’s overwhelming need for constant amusement and distraction. More importantly, this book explains how you can identify distractions, avoid them and get on with doing deep meaningful work… Oh yes… There is hope… Sinking Deeper, Ever So Deeper The author Cal Newport offers many arguments and […]

If you are stuck not reaching your “goals” and keep starting and stopping, making little to no progress in achieving your visions of success then read this… Whether it’s fitness or business, systems always beat goals to achieve a result… Here is what I mean… What’s Wrong With Goals? Goals are like shiny things, they […]

ConvertKit is the solution I had been waiting for to finally move away from using aWeber and MailChimp. If you are like me, you probably put up with “almost what I need” or “work arounds” to do your email marketing. Being skeptical, I waited a bit before trying ConvertKit… Everyone promises to be the “ULTIMATE […]

Before I begin writing code for a new membership site, saas project, product or service, I create an Early Bird or Beta Invitation optin interest list. In short, I add a form on a landing page to start collecting emails from people who show early interest in my product or service. In exchange, they get […]

Like you, I need to stay on task, with countless distraction during the day, I needed a way to both visually see my progress and physically check off goals. Jerry Seinfeld has been credited for an easy way to both see daily progress and taking a pen to paper to cross off another day of […]

So Laravel rewarded me for being an early adopter of their Micro-Framework Lumen by stripping it of Session and Cookie functionality, forcing me to rewrite code for several sites to use JWT authentication. If you find yourself in the same spot, below is how is how I added JWT auth, of course in a very […]

A while ago, I made the transition from CodeIgniter to Lumen and I wrote about it in a post about picking the right PHP framework for a SAAS membership site… What I needed was a super lightweight and fast PHP framework to build out all of my MVP ( minimal viable product ) ideas, I […]

If you use aWeber, you could be spending too much money every month… With your hard work, eventually you will end up paying for the size of your list as it grows to 1000 then 10,000 and even 100,000+ emails… Surprisingly, for many of you, a big chunk those email subscribers will never open your […]

Blogging is a great way to generate traffic to a new site or even increase traffic to an existing site… Here is how to structure your blog using trello to maximize the attraction of visitors at all levels of interest. You Need Structure Blogging can get a bit out of control… Because you can write […]

I found the one file to fix that kept my Twitter Card images from not showing when sharing posts from my WordPress blog. Here is how I fixed it..