Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur

We start our next interview with a discussion about informal mentoring with Chip Nightingale. There are many formal mentoring options out there for you. However, some of the best ways to advance your career are to look to the informal ones that are available in your daily life. Your coworkers, leads, and even your boss can provide you with mentoring that is invaluable to your career. Informal Ment...

The last part of our interview with Sebastian Schieke looks at how we fail to educate people on how to work as a team. We have activities as part of education that give experience with teamwork. However, we tend to skip the essential parts, like how to work with others and assess what motivates us. Better Awareness Helps Us Work As A Team One of the first things we need to understand is what motiv...

We dive further into personal motivators and drivers while discussing with Sebastian Schieke. This topic leads us to assessments and other ways to learn about individual traits. That is where his organization points customers to. They use assessments, and similar fact-finding tools, to help a team learn about the members and the leaders learn how best to use those traits. Every team is a combinati...

The discussion with Sebastian Schieke continues as we look at building a high-performance remote team. Not surprisingly, there are similar concerns as with traditional work teams. The team must be able to work together, set common goals, and find fulfillment for the members. None of this is new in leadership or team-building. However, it seems to leave people stumped when it shifts to a remote tea...

We start a discussion with Sebastian Schieke at the beginning and how he got into entrepreneurship and building mobile teams. He started as most of us in that generation did with office jobs and dressing for work. Over the last fifteen or so years, there was a change. He started to find that he had a better pool of potential workers when he looked further than his local town. Well before the pande...

It is time once again for our Thanksgiving special . Yes, that time of year when we pause and reflect a bit. The last few years have been a challenge, Nevertheless, we can all still find things to be thankful for. This exercise is not just to join in the spirit of the holiday; it is a way to maintain focus, recharge, and keep a positive attitude. Yes, this is a way to "keep hope alive." Why A Than...

It is time once again for our Thanksgiving special . Yes, that time of year when we pause and reflect a bit. The last few years have been a challenge, Nevertheless, we can all still find things to be thankful for. This exercise is not just to join in the spirit of the holiday; it is a way to maintain focus, recharge, and keep a positive attitude. Yes, this is a way to "keep hope alive." Why A Than...

We wrap up our discussion with Chris Myles with a continuation of the time or money conversation. There are many ways to grow and build your business. However, the best path to do so can come down to whether you have more time, money, or skill. That alone shows why there are so many ways to start and build a business and part of our wrap-up. With this final part of the interview, we do go a tad of...

In this episode, we continue our discussion with Chris Myles and explore how to define and go about automating your processes. Along the way, we also look at motivation and finding ways to keep things interesting as you grow your business or career. The two topics go hand-in-hand as you will find your greatest happiness when you outsource the tasks you do not enjoy. Go ahead, and keep the fun thin...

Our discussion with Chris Myles continues into the ideas of calculated risk and facing your doubts. We can all be blocked by worry. However, overcoming obstacles and getting out of your comfort zone is the path to success. No one finds success while sitting in a safe place. Calculated Risk There are many reasons to hesitate or even play it safe. Chris walks us through his concerns and those nervou...

We start a new discussion with Chris Myles, focusing on his specific set of skills to create side hustle success. He has tried a lot of approaches and found success along with a few paths to avoid. Those have led to the creation of many sites, including bloggerevolution.com. We explore those in this multi-episode discussion of all things Chris. Side Hustle Success While many people will sell you o...

We conclude our discussion with Gregory Offner with an admonition to run towards success or desires. Once you run away, you likely will keep running. This topic swings us back around to the idea of approach-avoidance. We generally avoid things we do not like more than more towards what we enjoy. While some may see that as a realist approach, it can be a form of self-fulfilling prophecy. One ends u...

We continue our discussion with Gregory Offner and look into quiet quitting. This phenomenon can be fixed through motivation. Thus, investing in your staff can help them grow and help the organization avoid employee disengagement. The result of investing in your employees is engagement and that provides a win-win situation. They get more out of their job, and you get more productive employees. Qui...

This episode of our Gregory Offner interview series looks at root goal analysis. He shares his story and how it can be used to create a pattern interrupt that helps others. We can all find ourselves in a rut and with an improper focus. The discussion here goes into how we should review our goals and set them to truly achieve our wants and desires. Root Goal Analysis - A Proper Focus Life is full o...

This episode starts a master class in how to turn around tragedy as we talk with Greg Offner. His story is mesmerizing, and he does a pretty darn good job sharing it.  Just kidding, Greg is an incredible guest and I think you will want to buckle in as we discuss a broad range of topics. Whether you are trying to find your happiness, build and retain a team, or learn a little about approach avoidan...

This episode starts a master class in how to turn around tragedy as we talk with Greg Offner. His story is mesmerizing, and he does a pretty darn good job sharing it.  Just kidding, Greg is an incredible guest and I think you will want to buckle in as we discuss a broad range of topics. Whether you are trying to find your happiness, build and retain a team, or learn a little about approach avoidan...

This episode starts a master class in how to turn around tragedy as we talk with Greg Offner. His story is mesmerizing, and he does a pretty darn good job sharing it.  Just kidding, Greg is an incredible guest and I think you will want to buckle in as we discuss a broad range of topics. Whether you are trying to find your happiness, build and retain a team, or learn a little about approach avoidan...

We wrap up our interview with Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers  with insight into  long tail keywords and how modern searches are made . This discussion provides some important considerations when you are thinking about search. That includes the idea that almost every search Google sees is new. The advance of voice recognition and mobile searches gives us almost infinite variations on search. W...

Part two of our interview with Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers  progresses into placement and backlinks. We look at how sites get ranked for search results and the general rules for SEO. This episode is one of those where it is good to take notes. Likewise, it can be very motivating to go back and address your approach to keywords, backlinks, and search in general. The Value of Backlinks Googl...

We move on in our Interviews 2.0 season to an interview with Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers . The name gives away his specialty, so it is sort of a spoiler alert. However, we have a great conversation about how to approach SEO, and I think you will have a notepad full of tips when we finish. An Introduction and Then We Get To Work In this episode, we start at the beginning. We get an introduc...

We wrap up our interview with Irina Poddubnaia with a focus on finding the right product fit. That goes for your customers and your own needs. There are many options available, and it is valuable for us to be able to navigate the field to find the best fit. Irina starts with a discussion about her customers and then deftly shifts into providing insight into how she has selected her solutions in a...

Part three of our interview with Irina Poddubnaia focuses on building her team. She had plenty of experience but still had things to learn. The good news is that she had people she had worked with in the past that helped her over the hump of finding resources. She loves her team and provides a great episode of singing their praises. Look To Experience For Building A Team We all have mixed experien...

We continue our interview with Irina Poddubnaia of TrackMage to discuss the benefits of SAAS solutions, why they chose them, and how to distinguish your solution from the pack. This delves into many practical challenges for building traditional software. Then, we switch gears to focus on how a similar solution can differ in critical areas. Delivery Over Packaging The bottom line of benefits of SAA...

The new season kicks off with an interview with Irina Poddubnaia of TrackMage. This season will once again explore how others have found success and the lessons learned along the way. The topics for this interview include SAAS benefits, building your team, and providing the best experience for your customers. Track Mage Site: https://trackmage.com/ Scratch Your Itch Irina spent her early professio...

There is an amusing irony to the idea that more mistakes can lead to a better life.  While the trip can be a challenge, the end is enjoyable.  We see this in many "overnight success" stories if we fail to look at the journey.  It is not the same as the end justifying the means.  However, learning from mistakes is a way to make the most of the price paid for them.  We cannot roll back time, but we...