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Fun making “InvestorBlogger” business cards at 123Print.com

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Do you have a business card for your job? If not, why not? Do you have a business card for your blog? No?! I don’t either. But business cards are extremely handy for giving out. They save you hunting for a piece of paper and a pen to write down a telephone number, they look good, and they give you a chance to “say” something about yourself that may be remembered long after you have been “forgotten”.

So I was wondering what a business card for “InvestorBlogger” might look like, so I made one online at 123Print.com for fun. Take a look!

InvestorBlogger's Business Card

It was relatively painless to create the business card below, though I think I’d like to have a little more advice on design aspects. Sometimes my earlier efforts looked okay, but needed some refinement. Also, some of the designs that they have looked like they were made from old Word graphics files from Word95. The photograph based images looked MUCH better.

So when I meet other bloggers at PostieCon or at Computex in Taipei (hey, John, still do you still “make money online?”!) I’ll be able to whip out my cards, and leave them fumbling for a pen and paper. Of course, if he were really smart, he’d be printing his business cards in time for his trip to Taipei. at 123Print.com. Cool!

A motivational speaker just might inspire you!

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When you are struggling to set up your business, or pursue a new line of work, or face challenges and difficulties in your professional or business life, motivation can be in short supply when you head to the office each morning. It’s sometimes difficult to remember the reason you wanted to do it this way, or that. All you see is the high mountain in front of you.

It’s at times like these that you need to find your inspiration again. You need to rediscover your original vision. You need to refocus on the longer term goals, and forget the day to day drudgery. On days like these, and not a few others, a motivational speaker may be your salvation in the ‘business’ and ‘career’ sense of the word! Either in book form, or in person, a date with Mark Hughes might be just the medicine the doctor ordered.

This post has been inspired and motivated by Mark Hughes!

Running Our Business

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We’ve been running a business (a language school) for over 6 years, and it’s grown from a very small base into a much larger concern than originally it was. Naturally, in business life, there are the ups and downs of the operation and the cycle of business. We’ve become aware of this.

Yesterday, though we noticed that the number of our enrolments had dropped in September, so we are still trying to analyze the situation. But anyway our moods at school have been dropping this past few weeks because of the antics of one of our staff members. So this just added icing to that cake. We are currently not profitable as the business goes right now, which feels like a real slap in our face.

I recently took back more or less complete financial control, but the hard part of our business is predicting future income (as I guess any) so to discover enrolments are down was quite a shock to me. This will naturally make the next few months more difficult than they would otherwise be.

We were planning to do so many things, but now we need to focus on our core essentials, and we need to develop our marketing skills. So I have decided to dedicate this website to my search for business and financial success. I’m hoping that its successes and failures will encourage other readers to try.
Kenneth