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Archive for December, 2014

My 2014 Goals Report Card

What good are goals if you don’t look back and see how you did?

To hold myself accountable to my goals for next year, I first am going back to my 2014 goals that I wrote on January 2 and see how I did.

1. Stay Focused, Stay Balanced:  A-
Overall, I stayed focused on my personal goals that are more important than my business or financial goals.  But I definitely could do better.  I still find myself thinking a lot about work when I should not be.

2. Train and Delegate: B+
Overall, people were not waiting on me too much.  I did a lot of training, but I don’t ever know if it could be enough.  I need to keep a good balance between learning and training others. (more…)

How to Run an Amazon Business (FBA)

My business partner and I are about six months into running our Amazon business and it’s been an absolute blast learning so much about what it takes to find a product, private label it, send it to Amazon, market it, and collect the money from Amazon.  (My favorite part is that last one about collecting money.)

We’ve made a lot of progress and learned a lot along the way.  But we’ve also put some effort into outsourcing and even laying out the roles and responsibilities.   (more…)