Pete Michaud

Enduring Value

I start working around 8 in the morning, and I’m normally done by 8 at night. Last week I took Sunday off, and built some games. But what am I doing that I call work? How can I look back at the end of the day and know I was “productive”? Hours worked are irrelevant. The real question is:...

Erica Douglass: Success in Vulnerability

Update: I called Erica “a millionaire entrepreneur” in this interview, but she corrected me, clarifying that while she did sell her hosting company for $1.1 million when she was 26, she is not a millionaire. Buying companies is more complicated than buying a candy bar in which you get a whole...

How to Choose a Profitable Niche Topic

Taking a break from soul searching posts, I want to address the question that I get most often from readers. I haven’t addressed it so far because I don’t want the topic of internet marketing to overtake my site. However, over and over, every time I talk about my business Kenrose Media, people...

One Customer At A Time

Many of you have dreams of one day quitting your job and supporting yourself with your software, book, or other sales. If you’re reading this you are probably bright, creative, and ambitious, and you probably have a particular disease that’s endemic among online entrepreneurs. It’s a...

Be Consistent To Be Successful

It’s relatively easy to be great. Most of “great” is just putting in the time and practice. The factor that divides the successful from the average is not greatness. It’s consistency. No matter how busy or distracted or distraught you are, if you show up every day and do what you do,...

Anchor in Data, not in Hope

Today I’ll highlight a fundamentally important point that I’ve mentioned a couple times before, but never emphasized as much as it needs to be emphasized. This point could mean the difference between success and failure in anything you want to achieve. From financial independence to grassroots...

Techzing Panel with Rob Walling

Click Here to Listen to the Techzing Panel Discusion with Rob Walling → I was on Techzing again with Jason, Justin, and this time the lovely and talented Mr. Rob Walling, of SoftwareByRob.com fame. We had a panel discussion which covered, among other topics: Scaling a business using automation Finding...

Goal Mapping Alpha

It’s finally ready! As promised, the alpha version of my Goal Mapping software is ready. For those of you who aren’t down with geek lingo, an “alpha version” is a complete piece of software, but it has only been tested by the developer (me), so it has loads of bugs, it’s...

Planning Right? You’ll Fail.

Planning Right: The Problem Imagining your future is usually right brained: your creative center generates a story for a future that could plausibly happen. It hits the highlights, and it puts magical arrows between them as if one event leads inexorably to the next. Get into MIT, start a successful company...

Pete Michaud Techzing Interview Transcript

This is a transcript from the interview I did recently with Justin and Jason at Techzing. If you want to listen to the audio instead of reading, click here. Enjoy! Table of Contents About Pete’s Writing Retirement Preface: Ken Sharpe Hitting a Home Run Retirement: Researching the Blogs Desperate for...