Archive | Motivation

11 January 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Use ‘Get Paid To’ Sites to Make Money During A Recession

In tough economic times like that of which we are experiencing today, coming into 2009, everyone is looking for extra ways to make some side money or even a very lucrative side income.  This is especially true for students and young entrepreneurs, or any internet entrepreneur. For those that focus on working with affiliate marketing [...]

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05 January 2009 ~ 3 Comments

My Goals for 2009

Everyone is writing about their goals for 2009, so I thought I’d put out some of mine here on Dorm Room Biz to share with you all. If you did not read my small post about reflections on 2008, then give that a quick read. It will only take a couple of minutes. No really, [...]

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19 December 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Tips for Running A Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization

I got an email the other day a week or more ago from a subscriber of the blog and a college student. He has been working on starting up an organization for student entrepreneurs at his school. He’s started laying the foundation for it but was looking for some more advice to help him with [...]

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26 November 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Land The Freaking Plane Already

While at the Entrepreneurial Summit at Radford University in October, I had the chance to meet a group of amazing entrepreneurs who are Radford alum. I also got the opportunity to have dinner with a few of them. As things got going and people started talking, of the people at the table made a comment [...]

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04 November 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Entrepreneurial Summit Wrap Up

I got back Tuesday night (last week, I am a little behind on getting this posted) to Maryland from The Entrepreneurial Summit at Radford University. This was the second time that the annual summit had been held on campus. The first time was in October 2007 which I created, planned, and executed. The Summit definitely [...]

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26 October 2008 ~ 2 Comments

More contests on the way? Here are some tips.

With the success of my first contest here at Dorm Room Biz, I have decided to run another contest coming up. I had a couple potential sponsors contact me after the first contest and offer prizes, so you should get excited about this upcoming one. It will offer you all, as young/student entrepreneurs, a great [...]

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09 July 2008 ~ 4 Comments

WooThemes Launches – WordPress Theme Club with excellent premium themes!

Out friends from PremiumNewsTheme.com have rebranded themselves and relaunched today as WooThemes! The site and service that they have put together, a wordpress theme club, is an absolutely outstanding idea and I encourage you to check it out. A collaborative effort by Adii, Magnus Jepson, Mark Forrester and Elliot Jay Stocks, I can only imagine [...]

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14 June 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Focus on What You Want and Not What You Don’t Want – The Secret

I don’t know about you guys, but I never really followed all of the hype for the movie “The Secret” when it came out in 2006. But now that I use Netflix, I decided to add the movie to my list and got it over the weekend to watch. IMDB gives the following synopsis for [...]

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04 April 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Keeping Focused in IT

It is very safe to say that the modern work industry is not only fast-paced but also an easy place to find yourself distracted. Below are five helpful tips that help me throughout the week. Don’t Take On Too Much At Once This is something we’re all guilty of. We want to jump out, show [...]

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19 March 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Time to change your time management strategy?

After reading the chapter in The Four Hour Work Week about managing your time more effectively, I have decided to implement a couple of the different tactics to see if I can make my use of time more efficient and effective as opposed to just wasting time on seemingly unimportant tasks. One of the points [...]

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