{"id":3774,"date":"2018-06-11T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2018-06-10T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T19:55:01","slug":"the-perfect-age-to-be-an-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/the-perfect-age-to-be-an-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect age to be an entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last week was a bit quiet because I had a few\u00a0email template issues, these aren&#8217;t quite resolved yet, but I&#8217;m back up and running.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also learned a valuable lesson&#8230; if I want to get this email out every day, then\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0going to need to write it the evening before. The morning&#8217;s are just insanely busy at the moment!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s already coming to light by finding the most interesting\u00a0blog posts each day, is how the big boys such as Forbes, Inc., Business Insider and Entrepreneur stay at the top of Google searches.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s by\u00a0sheer quantity of content.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ve got their SEO teams working hard as well, but the\u00a0volume of content, and some of it pretty good, that they produce is incredible. On average they&#8217;re each publishing around 100 articles every single day.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, the busiest personal blogs I&#8217;m following produce three or four articles a day, whereas most are only producing one article every few days.<\/p>\n<p>How can you compete with\u00a0that kind of volume of content\u00a0without a big budget? Honestly, at the moment I&#8217;m not sure. But it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m\u00a0going to be getting my head around over the coming months<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, BeeBee\u00a0is in the middle of an\u00a0operation about now, an Trump has been making an ass of himself as usual. In other words&#8230; the world is trundling on.<\/p>\n<p>There are three great stories I&#8217;ve chosen for you today, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re\u00a0going to love them.<\/p>\n<p>Over &#8216;n out,<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">There&#8217;s No &#8216;Perfect&#8217; Age For Success In Entrepreneurship<\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Only Requirement For Success Is To Want To Succeed<\/h4>\n<p>A lot of folk assume that entrepreneurs are young, but that&#8217;s not necessarily the case. In fact, you get the same excuses from folk who are young as you do from folk who are older.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m too young<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m too old<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s not enough time<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have enough money<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know where to start<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the truth is&#8230; these are\u00a0just excuses. There&#8217;s perks to starting a business young, and there&#8217;s perks to starting a\u00a0business when you&#8217;re older, they&#8217;re just different.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is, there&#8217;s no age limit to success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnhall\/2018\/06\/10\/theres-no-perfect-age-for-success-in-entrepreneurship\/#72e6a95133d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And this blog post\u00a0explains exactly why.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">6 Expensive Things That Are Totally Worth The Money<\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Consider The Cost The Japanese Way<\/h4>\n<p>Years ago, when I was in Japan,\u00a0I was told that the best way to decide if something was worth the\u00a0cost was to divide the cost by the amount of times you&#8217;re likely to use.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you may buy a pair of shoes for $300 and are only\u00a0likely to\u00a0wear\u00a0them twice. That gives them a price of $150 per use. If you&#8217;re only going to be using them for\u00a0four hours each time, that&#8217;s $32.50 per hour. Pretty expensive for a pair of shoes.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, you may spend $30,000 on a car which you&#8217;re going to drive for an hour to work each day each way. That&#8217;s two hours per day. You&#8217;ll probably also spend a couple of hours each weekend in the car as well. A total of 12 hours per week or 624 hours per year. If you plan on\u00a0keeping the car for three years, you will spend 1872 hours in your car. That means it&#8217;s\u00a0costing you $16.03 per hour, pretty much half the price of the pair of shoes for $300.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things though that you should never skimp on,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/expensive-things-that-are-worth-the-money-2018-6?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T\/#6-health-items-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and this blog posts lists the six most important.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve got to be honest&#8230; I agree with all of them!<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paying For Software<\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why It&#8217;s Worth The Pain<\/h4>\n<p>Sometimes\u00a0it&#8217;s hard to pay for software. It&#8217;s hard to see the value in it, especially when there&#8217;s often free open source software\u00a0which\u00a0will usually do the job just as well.<\/p>\n<p>Or seem to on the front.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s\u00a0the\u00a0thang&#8230; free isn&#8217;t always the\u00a0best value.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to thing about\u00a0what\u00a0happens when it breaks, if you want\u00a0it to do something else or on-boarding support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2018\/06\/on-paying-for-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seth Godin puts it very succintly here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was a bit quiet because I had a few\u00a0email template issues, these aren&#8217;t quite resolved yet, but I&#8217;m back up and running.\nI&#8217;ve also learned a valuable lesson&#8230; if I want to get this email out every day, then\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0going to need to write it the evening before. &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,198],"tags":[],"location":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwilding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}