10 business lessons I learned in 2009

Goodbye 2009! The great memories and moments you have contributed to my life are just remarkable. Although 2010 is now the year that I will be seeing in calendars everywhere, the lessons I’ve learned in 2009 will always remain in my mind, in my heart and in my blood. Most of those wisdoms were production of my business activities directed by my never-ending spiritual conquest. This year, I’ll be a full-time entrepreneur, considering my release from employment last December 2009. The following business lessons I learned in 2009 will be my greatest tools to achieve entrepreneurial success in 2010.

1. Stick to your game plan
This is a lesson I learned from Manny Pacquiao and Freddie Roach, the world’s best boxer and trainer of the decade. Many people are asking what is the secret behind the great victories of the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, the Pacman. The key is simple, stick to the game plan. In the world of entrepreneurship, we always have that game plan. That plan is directed to our main goals. However, there are several opportunities that come in our ways. Some of these opportunities are so attractive enough to drive us away from our original plans. The worst is… it’s already too late before we realize that we are already heading to the wrong direction, direction that will lead us to failure. Pacquiao, although he sees an opportunity to knockout his opponent during fight time, he maintains prudence and avoid carelessness to take the bait of his opponent. He sticks to the game plan and eventually become a winner. Simply in business, we should create the best plan, and then stand for it. Read more

10 business lessons I learned from Facebook’s Farmville

Business lessons can be dug anywhere and anytime. If you have the entrepreneurial mind, you can reflect and learn important business virtues from your simple daily activities. I’ve been an ardent Facebook user for a couple of months now. The world’s most popular social network site is really fun and interestingly interactive. There, you can enjoy great games and applications including some marketing tools to promote your site. And here comes one game called Farmville – the only game I can allow to play for myself for currently experiencing time poverty.

Farmville is a very popular Facebook game application created by Zynga, a prominent company and developer of social games on the web.  It has more than 55 million monthly active users as at the date of this post. Inside the game, you can create your own farm, plant fruits and vegetables, raise nice animals and decorate the farm the way you want it. You can also send and receive gifts to and from your friends and neighbors. In the market, you can buy your desired seeds to plant, animals to breed and other stuff and infrastructures you want depending on your current level. As of the writing of this post, I’m just in the 12th level of the game. Nevertheless, I already enjoyed and had so much fun with it. And beyond that, I have learned the following ten business lessons that every business owners and entrepreneurs should reflect. Read more

101 blog tips I’ve learned (Part 2)

I hope you have already absorbed and digested productively the first part of my 101 blog tips (1 to 50) in the previous post. Now it’s time to digest the last part of these blog vitamins. Enjoy!

51. Write what you really know

52. Write what you really love

53. Write what you really hate

54. Innovate

55. Learn guerilla marketing and viral marketing

56. Learn basic html, php, java script, css, photoshop (understand what your are copying and pasting)

57. Invest in useful scripts and softwares (a premium wordpress theme is an example)

58. Outsource jobs where you are not expert to do so Read more

101 blog tips I’ve learned (Part 1)

It’s been six months now since I first put this blog live online. BusinessAccent is not my first blog. I was blogging a page-ranked four Philosophy blog back when I was a new passer as an accountant and was searching for my first employment job. I lost that blog because I just don’t have extra money to renew my blog’s domain and pay my web hosting – plus I was already very busy with my first employer during that time. After a year, I started blogging again – with this blog as my comeback blog. For six months of running this blog, I already learned a lot from my own experiences and from the other great bloggers out there. Some of the following blog tips are lessons that I still need to apply since I don’t have enough time to blog (I’m still a full time public accounting practitioner).

I have broken the following 101 blog tips into two parts. I believe that… a gradual intake of words will result into a better digestion of knowledge. Enjoy the first part of the list! Read more

List of business blogs, bloggers and their great blogging lessons

List of business blogs and bloggers who give me great business blogging lessons – that’s the original title of this article. But since having a very long title post is absurd – I cut it to the one you see above.

I have been running BusinessAccent.com since December of 2008. I am a Certified Public Accountant but not a certified professional blogger. With this fact, I admit to that I still have to learn tons of knowledge in blogging to become an effective online entrepreneur. Through the road of my exploration of the world of online entrepreneurship, I have encountered great business blogs and bloggers in my path that give me important lessons that a blogger must learn. Some of these bloggers became my nice friends and some of them don’t know that they have already inspired me.

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