As a startup entrepreneur you’re always on the lookout for ways of serving more customers at each chance you get, whether it’s through marketing, generating leads, sales, or just plain ol’ helping someone else out. It’s about earning more than a starving artist’s wage. But as with any business, there is the craft of your business that you love to do and then there is the business of your craft, how to make money doing what you love to do.
Having said that, there are a number of quotes that I’d like to share:
- Never hand an ill workman good tools.
- An ill labourer quarrels with his tools.
So, what do these mean? A poor technician, i.e. workman, artist, writer, etc. makes excuses for the tools they use in getting the required results. It’s the same as saying that buying a great word processor will make you a good or even great writer. Not quite.
A good word processor (the tool) makes the task of writing easier, but it does not make your writing (your skill) any better. Whether it’s a book an author is producing or a graphic by an artist, it takes work and talent, using good brushes to do oil paintings with or using a good saw to finely and precisely cut wood. If you don’t know how to use them well, i.e. your talent or skills, it won’t make the results any better.
Apple is a tool maker
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What is the purpose of a business? Is it to make money? Sell products and services? How about making you and our family and those you hire happy?
What do you think?
Why are you here?
Well, here’s Steve Jobs reason…
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Here is a rather interesting visual graphic of the iPhone versus the Android phones and the software updates.
It’s about your money, and how much it costs you to use and hang onto a company’s product.
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I was on my way home from a local high school curriculum meeting discussing how the high school can best prepare kids for the working world. What would we expect from them, what should they know? I left the meeting after discussing the need to teach kids entrepreneurship, the business of their craft, on par with teaching them their craft, what they love to do and have the talent to do. As I left the meeting I called my wife to let her know that I was on my way to meet her and when I asked her how she was doing, she said, “I sad.” Or more appropriate, iSad.
Hearing her sadness in her voice I asked, “Why are you sad, Sweetie?” Then she said, “Steve Jobs had died!”
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When I was looking at the next “Monday Motivations for MacStartups” I was looking for another company to profile, but then I saw this blog site and thought, “You know, we’re all motivated by our spaces and how we set up our work and living spaces and the way we set them up tells us how we like to live and work.” If we can’t personalize, we become homogenized, and Macs are not about homogenization at all!!
So, we Mac fan boys and girls love working with our Macs, but have you ever thought of how your Mac looks in your office compared with others? Here’s 60 pictures of other Mac fans and their set ups.
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Who am I?
I’m Kevin Cullis and I’m a business geek, that’s what I love to do, blend strategies, tactics and knowledge of both business and Macs together. I also love Apple technologies and have used them since 1985, when I bought my first Mac 512ke. Today I use a MacBook Pro. My whole family is on Macs, except my brother, who is the last Mac holdout, but then he’s a System Administrator on UNIX.
What do I have?
I’ve written a book taking my years of selling computers to businesses and helping businesses get more done with their computer and put all of it into my first book, How to Start a Business: Mac Version.
Why do you need this?
Can you answer “Yes” to any of these facts. Are you:
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Well, almost there. It took a while to get my book completely done using iWork Pages, but it’s finished. But, as with any non-fiction book there are potential updates as changes occur with the content. But I have written the book in such as way as to:
- reduce the amount of changes that are required if content does change, i.e. if significant changes in Mac OS X occur.
- using a POD (Print On Demand) publisher means I can change my book anytime I choose and do not require a publisher to do the work.
Here’s what I have done.
