My name is Matthew Bredel and as of March, 2007, I am a full-time, work-at-home internet marketer.
For close to 10 years, I worked for a defense company which was an OK job, but I was so uninspired in life and frankly, I needed some more money. That is when I first discovered internet marketing! Now I admit that I didn't start making thousands in my first couple of months (in fact, I lost my shirt!), but I finally saw the "internet light"...
Finding a Perfect Graphic Designer
For years I have struggled with getting that perfect graphic image for any of my products. I have done it myself. I have used graphic design services. Now, I go to the professionals, and it was well worth it!
Being Tim Ferriss at 10,000 Feet
“No Reception” - Ah! Are you kidding me? I might as well been living on the moon. I never really realized how dependent I have become of an internet connection in my life until this latest trip to the mountains. It was tough at first, but taught me some incredible lessons about running a business.
Avoiding Negative Outsourcing Experiences
There are things you may choose to outsource because you’re busy or because you need a certain level of expertise but a lot of people have negative outsourcing experiences before they have positive ones because they’re unprepared for the process of finding the right people for the job.
Time Management - “The List”
The last couple of weeks have been quite a rollercoaster for me. As I watch the financial markets (and my future retirement and children’s college investments) collapse, I have been faced with the inherent “need” to grow my businesses even further. (Not that I really need to, but that pending fear of business collapse always [...]
Outsourcing: What is Your Time Worth?
We’ve been talking a lot about outsourcing over the past few weeks and in my last outsourcing video, I mentioned:
“If you can’t afford it, don’t do it!”
Some with differ with me on this statement and I know many who have outsourced almost any task you can think of (including web design, graphic design and project [...]
Outsourcing a Writer…
Of all outsourcing tasks, I feel this is the one that I know most about!
For most, this should be one of the soonest tasks you start to outsource because writing content for your website or articles can be:
Time consuming
Not cost effective
And well, most writers can write better than you
The question is where do you go [...]
Are You Ready For Outsourcing?
Go to any guru and ask them what you need to do to grow your business and they will tell you: OUTSOURCE. The ultimate business model, right? You manage other people to do the work and at the end of the day, you don’t do much of everything while everyone else is making money [...]
Outsourcing, Nepotism & My New Virtual Assistant
In my hunt for a personal assistant, the solution was literally under my roof: My wife. This totally made sense! But how? She took care of the kids. So we did a 180 and decided to outsource the child care to a nanny (3 days per week) while my wife works for me. By hiring [...]
Outsourcing Your Vacation?
I’ve been on vacation for the past week…the Sierra Mountains, in fact. I’ve been going with my family since I was born and it is fun to share the experience with my own family and kids now, too.
The lake is still the same. The general store has not changed one bit. The dirt smells the [...]
Drowning in Stupid Internet Tasks
I found myself in a rut.
Well, not really, but I was really starting to chase my tail and growth was slowing to a near stand-still. Over the past few months, I have been redesigning many of my sites, understanding and applying the concepts of video production and distribution, social networking, performing lots of A/B [...]