Hi Brian,

I would like to get a marketing opinion of you. I have offered downloadable e-books in the past for other educational products I developed but I had a problem with people stealing the work - buying one e-book, then copying it for others. I even had problems with my printed works in that regard. I had several of my online articles mishandled as well and have since removed every one. It was a bit unsettling since my sellable works were mostly purchase locally and I often knew who was doing it - makes one wonder about people and ethics. What kind of copyright security would I get or should I even worry about it? People seem to steal no matter how many protections one tries to implement. Do you have that problem with your works?

Thanks,
Karen

Hi Karen,

Yes I had the same issue. Within a few months there were free copies of my book circulating online. But honestly…it didn’t bother me one bit. I was just glad people were reading it/using it etc.

The way I look at it, distribution and getting your ideas out there is more important than making money from it. In fact, if you get good distribution the money thing will take care of itself. For every person who reads it free, at least they are exposed to my ideas…then maybe they will benefit from it, and tell other people about it or subscribe to my blog, and end up making me money some other way down the road.

You could get it to 100 people perfectly locked down, get $100 from each, and make $10,000. Or you could get it to a million people, have 90% of them steal it, only get $10 from the remaining people, and still make more that way (a million).

Hope that helps, and until next time, keep breaking free!
Brian Armstrong

Yesterday I went rock climbing with my friend James.

About half way up the last run I hit what looked like a dead end. The next handhold above me was WAY out of reach. The piece of rock I was holding onto with my hands was right around my waist…but I couldn’t reach anything above it, just a smooth rock face.

How was I going to go up?

It seemed like I’d have to put my left foot where my hands were (near my waist) and stand up on my left foot. But with nothing for my hands to hold at that point, I’d surely fall backwards, right?

I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to work, but with encouragement from below I decided to give it a go. I’d start to step up…and then stop. Then I’d start again just a few inches, and quickly retreat back to my handhold.

It just felt terribly unnatural…i mean, imagine how it would feel if you tried climbing to the top of a high ladder with no hands. Then take the last step with just one foot, where the rung of the ladder was about an inch wide with no hands. Yeah…it felt sort of like that. It just wasn’t going to work, I could FEEL myself starting to fall.

I belayed back down to the ground convinced that this one was beyond my abilities. Then a strange thing happened: James went up the same route, got to the point where I was stuck, stepped up on his left foot with no hands while hugging the wall, and somehow didn’t fall backwards. Damn! That broke my theory.

Being the competitive person I am, I was none too happy about this. I decided to try it again. This time, the same feelings in my head were all saying “this is not working, you’re falling, you’re falling, NO YOU’RE REALLY FALLING NOW!” but I forced myself to ignore them, and kept inching up on that left leg. Lo and behold, I DIDN’T fall and managed to reach the next handhold.

I was as surprised as anyone. I’ve never done a complete 180 from “I am absolutely sure this is impossible” to “I am absolutely sure this IS possible” so quickly.

It occurred to me that most things worth doing in life play out like this the first time you try it…including starting a business.

• It’s going to feel very unnatural the first time you try it
• What at first seems impossible, later is not only possible but can become easy
• Having more experienced people around you can be an amazing motivator

I bet the first time you make a million dollars it’s the hardest. It probably doesn’t even seem possible at first. But then you see someone else do it right in front of your eyes and it changes everything.

Some people have been asking me how much money this blog makes.

If you’ve been reading it for a while then you know I like making monthly financial statements, so as you might have guessed I track the numbers.

Here they are for August 2008.

Income:

• $215.00 - Book Sales
• $87.70 - Google Adsense
• $53.00 - Private Ad Sales
• $50.14 - Text Link Ads
• $10.22 - Kontera
• $3.50 - Commission Junction
• $1.36 - Chitika

TOTAL INCOME: $420.92

Expenses:

• $10.00 - Hosting with 1and1 (this includes a number of sites, not just BreakingFree)
• $45.00 - Book printing and shipping costs (paperback only)
• $5.00 - E-Junkie for processing book payments

TOTAL EXPENSES: $60.00

NET INCOME: $360.92

As you can see I’ve been trying a variety of ad programs. Some of them are under performing, like Kontera, CJ, and Chitika. I’m always ready and willing to replace these with something that might work a lot better. In particular the 125×125 square ads on the right side of this blog make very little money at all. I was trying a company called PerformancingAds.com last month which brokers 125×125 square ads like that, but they didn’t make a single dollar :(. That space can probably be put to better use.

If anyone has other suggestion for what has made them money on their blog, please post below in the comments.

I don’t think blogging is a good way to get rich quick, but if you enjoy writing about a subject then by all means it doesn’t hurt to make some money on the side.

The real benefit of blogging (at least in my mind) is:

1. Writing your thoughts and interacting with others on a particular topic forces you to learn it better and faster.
2. From a purely egotistical point of view, it just feels good to help other people, get emails from them, and have people listen to what you say.
3. It’s like a personal journal to help you record and organize your thoughts.
4. It’s a good way to keep in touch with people who you wouldn’t ordinarily have time to communicate with on a regular basis. They can still know what’s going on in your life.
5. It builds distribution for your ideas (also known as a permission asset) so that the next time you launch a project there are people who know you and are willing to check it out.

If the non-monetary reasons make enough sense for you to blog, then I think you can wake up a few years later and have a nice fairly passive income. It certainly doesn’t happen quick though, and I’ve still got a ways to go. I’ll keep you posted as things progress and I find other ways to make money from blogging as a side income.

I stumbled across this excellent resource today. It’s called UserVoice and it’s a free tool to collect feedback from your users and let them make suggestions.

The reason why this is so brilliant is that it’s something you know you should do with every project, but it’s low enough priority that you never get around to doing it. Usually I end up doing it informally like by emailing some people, or waiting for a complaint to come in. But there is phenomenal gains in making it as easy as possible for people.

Google used this technique successfully throughout the beta launch of Gmail, which won all sorts of awards for doing exactly what people wanted. Dell used this technique successfully with their site DellIdeaStorm to figure out that their users wanted to buy PC’s with linux on them. They never would have known if they didn’t ask, and now Dell makes a bunch more money offering that product.

No business is perfect when you first launch it. But luckily you don’t need to guess what people want. If you’re good at ASKING your customers what they want they’ll tell you. It’s no secret.

Now you have the same quality tools as Google and Dell to listen to your customers. It’s a fully featured site that has built in voting, anyone can submit a new idea, and duplicates are caught. And it’s free.

There are even two little widgets you can install on your site to help you collect data. One of them you can see on the right side of this blog which I’m using to allow people to suggest new blog topics.

To try it out, click the above image and suggest or vote on a post idea. The second type of widget I’ve installed on my tutoring site to get feedback and suggestions from clients and tutors.

This is really an outstanding site that just made things a lot easier for the small business owner. Nice work UserVoice!

I thought ya’ll might find this interesting. As you might know, I’m a big fan of split-testing. This is a good example of why.

Here are two different sign-up pages I tested for my Austin tutoring website.

This one got a 30% conversion rate (meaning 30% of people who came to the page filled out the form at the bottom and signed up).

This next one does all the “right things” taught in traditional copywriting (strong headline, testimonials, longer=better, strong call to action, etc) and did only half as well: a 14% conversion rate.

I’m not a professional copywriter, but when dealing with a reasonably educated audience I think any of these “sales letter” type pages that contain lots of hype can turn people off. There are too many scams on the internet and sales letters set off people’s “BS” detectors. Sometimes simpler is better.

What do you think?

Brian,

What a great surprise! Your book is an excellent source of knowledge, and your ideas are inspiring. Unfortunately, I am feeling the way you state in your book: tired, frustrated, sick of helping others make money!

Web has always been on my blood, and I have developed several websites in the past. Reading your book made me think about using that skills to create my own business. My recent ideas are: city travel guides, with a catchy name and a high-quality content. Other idea (much bigger) would be to create something alike the company where I am right now: a classifieds website. The UK/France/US/Germany markets are very strong on this subject, but my idea would be to create a specialized classified website.

Hoping on your answers, opinions and suggestions. Once more, congratulations on your success. I am on my way to finish your book and I clearly feel motivated by your words, your teaching and the quotations you choose from famous entrepreneurs.

Best regards,
Rui (from Portugal, in London)

Hi Rui.

Thanks for the email and kind words! I think you are off to the right start. I like both your ideas of a travel guide and classified site, but for separate reasons.

The travel guide could be good as a blog, or similar business. Just be aware here that you will have to create a lot of content for it over time, so that burden will be on you unless you can get guest authors. Make sure it’s a topic you love.

Also, it’s fine to target it locally just don’t get too specific or there won’t be a wide enough audience to build a big business. This guy was able to target his car blog to Australia even though there were lots of other car sites and that differentiation worked for him, just as an example. He talks about this more in the interview mp3.

The classified site could be better as a forum or community site like that. It will take work to promote it up front, but the benefit is that the users will be generating most of the content after it gets going, not you, so it will be more passive down the road.

Both of these types of sites could produce good advertising revenue once they get going. It won’t be easy but I bet you could start a few of them and put a year into it to really get it going and it would work.

You are certainly on the right track, and it is so easy to put these type of sites up today that it shouldn’t take too long. Doesn’t hurt to try a few out and see what takes off.

One final idea: if you are trying to find a good topic for a blog/forum/classified site like this, try going to a giant magazine rack at a bookstore and look at all the topics out there. If there is a magazine about a topic (cars, business, celebrities, health, minorities, etc) then you can be sure it has enough of an audience to make a business out of. This has been one of the best ways I’ve found…you can just browse the magazine and think “is there already a GOOD website out there that is addressing these readers?” If not you can be the first to make it!

Thanks and good luck!
Brian

In the last 6 months or so I’ve become a big Milton Friedman fan. Complex issues like inflation, money supply, economic growth, unemployment, government spending, deficits, etc always seemed like complex issues to me with many sides to the story. You could read or ask 20 different people about issues like that and you’d get 20 different answers.

Somehow, Milton Friedman seems to make them easy to understand, and I feel almost embarrassed that I didn’t understand them better before.

He has now passed away, but I just finished watching part of his 1980 documentary called “Freedom To Choose” and it’s outstanding. You can watch one part of it here, although I recommend you check out the whole thing.

I was shocked when reading Fortune Magazine recently (where Obama and McCain discuss the economy) to see a quote from McCain stating that his economic role model was Milton Friedman. That certainly caught my eye. Although I’m more liberal socially on some issues than McCain, this was a huge plus for me. I don’t think Obama’s plan for the economy makes any sense at all (he wants to raise business taxes, taxes on wealthy, and increase government spending… basically the exact opposite of what would help the economy).

It’s interesting to note that Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, has decided to fund a study from the top 500 economists (at great personal expense) to see where they fall on the presidential election coming up. I feel pretty confident they will come down economically on the side of McCain (it’s just such a shame he hasn’t come around on some other issues, I’m not totally sold on him :).

Apparently, even Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Milton Friedman fanboy! (Which actually really helps explain his politics.)

What do you think about Milton Friedman? Had you heard of him before this post? Leave a comment below.

I’m fond of telling people that 9 out of 10 of my business ideas fail. I don’t just say it for effect. It’s actually true.

Of course this doesn’t mean that starting a business is risky. It just means that you need to go through a lot of ideas quickly, and inexpensively, to find one that works.

Some of these didn’t so much utterly fail as they did just not excite me after a while or didn’t really take off. It’s very possible that you could have a decent business idea, and it just isn’t quite the right fit at that point in your life. Anyway, I think it’s healthy as an entrepreneur to try a variety of things while still not being so ADD as to jump ship before an idea really pays off. It’s a delicate balance.

Without further ado, here they are…

1. GetItSmart.com
   

   This website I started way back in 2000 with a friend of mine. Basically, we resold and drop shipped computer hardware. Thanks to the incredible WayBackMachine which keeps a record of what every page on the internet looks like over time (they must be using ridiculous amounts of data storage) I was able to dig up a screenshot of what the site actually looked like back then (minus a few images).

   

   Basically, my friend and I found a couple distributors of refurbished computer hardware that were selling at a steep discount. These distributors also had absolutely no website front end that could present actual pictures and useful information to a buyer. Their catalog was practically just a list of serial numbers in an excel file and maybe one line of text.

   I decided to learn PHP and wrote a little script which would take the product lists from the distributors, come up with an appropriate picture and description (mostly by scraping from other sites), mark their price up by $100, and list it on our website.

   This business did ok for a couple years and we would occasionally sell some computers and make a couple hundred bucks. I remember feeling an incredible RUSH doing this and I think it is what first got me addicted to becoming an entrepreneur. It was an incredible feeling to just be some kid who threw up a website, and we would have people from all over the U.S. call up and make orders. Little did they know they were talking to a 16 year old kid sitting in his bedroom, giving me their credit card number.

   Why it failed: A few reasons. The dot com bubble burst and people stopped buying computer hardware. I also went off the college around this time. Finally, my business partner decided to take a bunch of money out of the account and ultimately went to jail for credit card fraud. This was the first of several unsuccessful 50/50 business partnerships. You can read here about why I don’t believe in doing those anymore.

2. Club Promoter
   

   For a while in college I decided it would be fun to be a club promoter. I’d seen some of my friends do it, and they seemed to pull in a large amount of cash occasionally, plus there were other benefits like they seemed to hook up with the hottest girls.

   The tough part was finding a club manager who would take a chance on us since we were totally unproven (I had a few friends together on this one too). Essentially by going out and drinking a lot we finally found a manager who gave us a Thursday night to prove ourselves. In case you don’t know, Thursday is a “dead” night for most clubs. They make all their money on Friday and Saturday so basically he was risking nothing by giving us a Thursday when they probably would have been closed anyway.

   Being the geek I am, I brought a technology aspect to the business. Within a week I had written a script (are you seeing a pattern here?) to scrape email addresses off Facebook for people at our University. We soon had a list of about 1000 email addressees plus our own list of friends. We would then set up drink specials that “only” students from our school could get and send out email blasts.

   We had fun for a while, and would basically make money in a couple different ways. Sometimes we would do a “cover charge” at the door (which we would keep) or sometimes get a percentage of bar sales if we hit certain sales targets.

   Why it failed: Primarily because the bar industry is full of shady characters, especially bar managers. Each week it was a negotiation. We would end up having to cover certain costs like the DJ or security. We could never get quite enough people to really PACK the place. College students were poor and didn’t want to spend money. I think a couple nights we actually came out negative. We did have a hell of a lot of fun though.

   Here is a picture of me doing a “Zoolander style walk off” at a fashion show themed party we promoted. If you aren’t sure what that is you need to watch the movie Zoolander immediately. Good times.

   

3. Corporate Blogs
   

   This idea I developed over a discussion with a mentor. Basically, we realized that blogging had a lot of potential and most big companies didn’t really get it as a lead generation tool.

   The idea we came up with was to help companies get their own blog going and market it. Our pitch was something like this: “we’ll set the thing up at zero cost to you and take all the risk, but if it starts to generate leads then you’ll pay us 20% of the new business generated from the blog, if it generates nothing then you pay nothing!”

   This pitch was well structured for a fledgling company because the idea of “i don’t make money unless you make money” works if you are totally unproven.

   Why it failed: It wasn’t a “bad” idea, but I decided it would be annoying and too much work to deal with big companies and try to get them to understand the concept. As a lifestyle choice, this was not very passive either, and I thought it would be a struggle to find the right people in a company to generate the content for the blog (a huge component).

4. Interviews With Self-Made Millionaires
   

   The idea for this business was to do 1-hour interviews with self made millionaires, and sell them as a subscription product. Basically, you’d pay $20/month or something and each month you’d get a CD or mp3 of someone who had started their own business and become rich.

   I even did a few of them which you can get for free here and here.

   I liked the idea of subscription products. After all, at $20/month I would only need to get about 250 subscribers and I’d be pulling in $5,000 a month (the production and distribution cost is very low).

   It also had the side benefit that I’d get to meet a lot of important people. There is no easier way to get someone’s time and attention then if you say you want to interview them (we are all a little vain I suppose).

   Why it failed: I think this was a good idea actually and it could still work. For some reason I just couldn’t get excited about it after a few months. It was a pain to set up the meetings with these people, schedule them, and then mix the audio/upload it etc. I enjoy just having conversations with people about business all the time, but this formalized interview thing just took all the fun out of it. And somehow it didn’t feel right to sell it afterwards, I’m still not entirely sure why. For some reason I found myself subconsciously avoiding it, and if I wasn’t really excited about it then it would be hard to do a good job.

5. Being a Business Consultant
   

   I briefly entertained the idea of becoming a “consultant” to people who are starting up businesses and even registered a domain name to promote myself. This idea quickly fizzled though.

   Why it failed: I had lots of experience, but not a ton of success yet. It would have been like the blind leading the blind. Also, people starting businesses are generally poor and have no budget for consultants. Oh yeah, and it would have been trading hours for dollars. Not passive enough.

6. Model Crowd
   

   This was somewhat similar to the club promotion idea, but some time later I decided that what really made a club successful was if attractive women showed up. If attractive women showed up, then men would show up, and if men showed up they would spend lots of money trying to impress the attractive women and the bar’s sales would be high. It all revolved around hot girls.

   Therefore, I figured if we had a bunch of attractive women, maybe clubs would pay to have them show up…either by giving them free drinks or a small stipend. This would be part of the clubs marketing budget to show they were the “cool” place to be.

   I promptly went out that night with a clipboard and began cruising bars recruiting girls to sign up for our newly formed “ModelCrowd” business. Notice it has a double entendre…model as in fashion model, and model as in “well behaved and a good example”.

   My pitch was simple and remarkably effective (I’d say it had about a 95% close rate). It went like this: “Hey you’re hot, want to get paid to show up at bars? Here put your email on this list.”

   Why it failed: Honestly, about 24 hours after conception, the idea seemed kinda stupid. Even if some club owners did decide to hire these girls, how much would they be willing to pay me (a couple hundred bucks?). Plus, these party girls would be very unreliable employees and who knows when and if they would even show up. In terms of developing an active social life, this might have been an interesting idea, but in terms of a business idea it didn’t have much merit.

7. Evolved Guns
   

   I met up with a mechanical engineer who also happened to be doing some really cool gun designs in his spare time. For some reason, I decided it would be a good idea to design a custom handgun with him even though I had practically zero experience in this area. We soon christened the new company “Evolved Guns”.

   After a while, we came up with a really cool design that looked like this:

   

   It was not a handgun from scratch. Instead it was a modified 1911 (one of the most popular and venerable handguns out there today, many companies make their own version of it, the original design which came out around the year 1911 is still widely used today, which is a fascinating story in itself).

   It had some neat stuff, like a laser grip (when you squeezed it a red dot laser would turn on to show where you were aiming), a compensator what blasted fire out the top (sort of like nostrils) to reduce recoil, a super light titanium frame, and a black chrome finish that was nearly impossible to scratch.

   I spent a lot of time and money on this one. The design went through 6 revisions, there was a MOUNTAIN of red tape to get the federal firearms license from the government, we played with lots of parts, milling equipment, etc.

   Why it failed: Ultimately, I couldn’t find a manufacturer for it and never even got one made which makes me sort of sad after all the work (the picture above is of a CAD rendering, not an actual one). If anybody wants to take a crack at making this thing send me an email, I have all the CAD drawings which you can use for free. Twice I had a major manufacturer lined up that fell through. Ultimately, I had to let it go for a variety of reasons. One, I was sort of out of my league here and had very little experience in manufacturing or mechanical engineering. Two, the insurance and license was expensive. Three, the price tag of the gun was getting pretty high (about $3,000) which made it a toy for rich people. And it was totally impractical for “typical” gun owners who were concerned with self-defense or hunting. Four, it was giving my parents ulcers. Five, again bad situation with business partner. Learned a lot in the process though :)

8. Brian’s Evolution
   

   This was the first blog I started. It was more of a personal blog. I eventually scrapped it though and started this blog (Breaking Free) instead.

   Why it failed: It was focused too much on me, and no one wanted to read it. When I started StartBreakingFree.com it was more focused on helping other people. Personal blogs don’t have much earning potential I don’t think.

9. The Breaking Free Challenge
   

   This was a companion website I thought about making for a brief while which would help people get their first business started. Each day for 30 days it would give them a task like picking a domain name or doing some marketing, and they could write about if and how they accomplished it.

   Why it failed: I decided not to do this idea because it was too structured. Businesses aren’t this cookie cutter, and I realized after getting into it a little bit that the steps I was creating for each day wouldn’t apply to everyone. I think this might have worked better for a more specific idea like a “30 day challenge to creating a blog” or a “30 day challenge to lose 10 lbs” or something. But for “starting a business” it was too generic of a goal.

Anyway, that’s it. You can see I have been all over the place with my ideas.

The ones that have worked have been the exception. But whenever one doesn’t work, I take it as a valuable learning experience and know that it will make my next one that much more successful.

By the way, ShoeMoney has a great post on this same topic which you might enjoy reading. It seems to be a common theme among entrepreneurs. Success comes after a lot of failure.

Until next time, keep breaking free!
Brian Armstrong

Many of you have taken advantage of the 3 free books I give away on this website. Since I’ve started doing it the number of subscribers has gone up consistently.

Today I’m going to teach you how to get your own free books that you can give away. This is a great technique to generate leads in any business, whether it is subscribers to a blog, or just to get email addresses of people who may be interested in your product.

Some people have asked, “How are you able to give them away?”

The answer is that these books are either in the “public domain”, which means the copyright has expired, or they are under the “creative commons” license, which means you have some freedom to use them.

One of the best places I’ve found to get these types of books is Scribd.com.

Supposedly they are one of the top 300 sites on the internet (that no one has heard of), receive 20 million visitors a month, and have 17 billion words in their “library” of uploaded documents.

I suggest you take some time to browse their site and see what pieces of content might be useful in your niche. They have other types of content besides books as well, such as sheet music, art, slides, and essays.

What material can I give away for free?

Copyrighted material is the strictest: you can’t use it without paying. Public domain works are the most open: you can do whatever you want. Creative commons is somewhere in the middle.

As you browse the different documents on Scribd you will see little icons that tell you what the copyright situation is. Here is what each one means (it can get a little tricky):

Public Domain

Public domain works are the most wide open. You can download them right off Scribd and distribute them on your own website. You can even edit them however you want and sell them.

According to Wikipedia:

In the United States, all books and other works published before 1923 have expired copyrights and are in the public domain. In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain…

The Creative Commons License

The next four are all more specific versions of the creative commons license. Under all of them you can still give the book away for free.

Attribution

This means you need to give credit to the original person who created the document. Most commonly, by leaving their name or website intact inside the work to show they were the original author.

You can still do whatever else you want with it though, including giving it away, selling it, or editing it.

Non-Commercial

This means you can still give it away for free, you just can’t sell it.

No Derivatives

This means you can only give away verbatim copies of the work. You can’t edit it.

Keep Same License

You can make derivative works (edited copies) but they must be distributed under the same creative commons license that the original used.

Conclusion

You can read more about the creative commons license here, but as you can see, under any of the creative common licenses you can still give the book away for free (which was my main goal). Just keep the author’s name in there and don’t edit it and you should be fine.

I don’t really recommend trying to sell public domain or creative common works (although some people do this). Instead, give them away for free to generate leads.

There really are some great books out there. I read and paid good money for both Think and Grow Rich and The Richest Man In Babylon when I bought them in paperback years before this website. It wasn’t until much later that I realized they were available to distribute for free.

So there you have it. Go to Scribd.com and check out some free material that your potential customers might really like. Then give it away to them in exchange for their email address to build leads for your business.

Most people don’t buy anything the first time they come to your site, and if they leave you will never hear from them again. But if you give them some instant value in exchange for their email, now you can follow up with them at some point down the road to build trust and a real business relationship.

Until next time, keep breaking free!
Brian Armstrong

Two more of my guest posts came out today in the blogosphere.

The first is on Problogger.net and shows the results of some split testing that I did on this website. It is titled Split Testing: How To Increase Your Adsense Earnings 94% Overnight.

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The second came out on LifeHack.org and it titled 8 Essential Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School.

Lately, I’ve been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school!

If I were to be 100% honest, probably the most valuable skill I learned in college was how to talk to girls (certainly a vital skill for happiness and success, but not what I was there to learn).

The economics classes? Nope, mostly academic mumbo-jumbo that is entirely useless to all but a handful of policy makers. The computer science classes? Hmm, maybe about 10% of that I’ve used, but it’s nothing I couldn’t have picked up with a couple good books, which I routinely do now. The history, English, philosophy, and physics? Aside from giving me a general understanding of the world and making me sound smart at cocktail parties, I can’t think of anything in there that I really use on a day to day basis.

Much of college gave me a bad taste for education. It made learning a real drag. I got through it to get the degree, but it wasn’t until after school that my education really began.

So what are the top skills that should be taught to every man, woman, and child who enters our education system? I’m glad you asked…

You can read the rest here…

As I’ve written about in the past, guest posts are a great way to build your readership on a blog.

Until next time, keep breaking free!
Brian