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Monthly Archives: May, 2014

If you’re struggling to find motivation, listen to this episode—rich tips to get you out of the muddy waters and back into clarity, focus and direction. In this conversation we address the second part of “Terry’s” question: how to re-find your motivation.

People ask us all the time: what tools did you guys use to build Fizzle? What do you recommend for building a small, independent, bootstrapped online business? It's a great question. There are thousands of tools out there. It's way too easy to let choosing your tools get in the way of making real progress in your business.

I used to be so caught up with vanity stats and metrics when I first started blogging that I didn’t realize how much energy I was wasting. It took me a long time to figure it out too.