How to bootstrap your business

New face at BootStrapMe.com

  

There’s a new face at BootStrapMe.com, the site I helped launch back in June 2006 and hosted right up until October of this year.

According to his bio, Greg Cruey has:

…lived on four continents and in 14 times zones. In the past 25 years I have worked in education, community development, economic development, journalism, and teaching in a variety of public and private settings in parts of the Pacific, and in rural Appalachia.

Greg’s experience, according to the info his site provides, includes work as a journalist in settings ranging from beat reporter for a regular daily newspaper to holding a position as editor-in-chief of a small college newspaper.

He adds that he has been writer in both the blogosphere and elsewhere on line for over a decade.

 

He can also be found blogging at My Secret Blogaholism.

 

His first post is about John Jantsch’s new book Let's Talk: Social Media for Small Business available free on line here.

It’s nice to see the blog I got rolling more than two years ago, supplying bootstrap business tips to visitors on the Creative Weblogging network, is in good hands.

Good luck in your future endeavors, Greg. Keep in touch!

Holiday bootstrapping links

 

While enjoying the leftovers and avoiding the clean-up this Thanksgiving, take some time to check out these great links on bootstrapping and be sure to bookmark this page as a resource to share with others…

Great bootstrap links:

• Start with nothing. The inspiring story of Greg Gianforte and his bootstrapped startup of an information technology company in rural Montana from Inc.com.
• The art of bootstrapping. Startup guru and former Apple executive Guy Kawasaki lays out key elements of bootstrapping a startup business
• The Bootstrapper’s Bible. A link to the free download version of Seth Godin’s book on the bootstrapping entrepreneur.
• Bootstrapping your business. The on line site for Greg Gianforte’s book on the subject of bootstrapping with a great overview on why entrepreneurs today should consider bootstrapping their startup strategy of choice.
• Bootstrapping your startup. Some additional thoughts and advice on the process by the folks at Entrepreneur.com.
• 10 reasons for a bare bones business startup. My own post from Jan. 16, 2007 on the topic of why starting with little or nothing can be key to success for an entrepreneur.

Enjoy and thanks for reading!

Happy Thanksgiving, bootstrappers!

 

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish readers of this brand new blog a Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Enojy the video below from Howcast on the important art of carving your Holiday bird, then read my Thanksgiving update and watch for a bonus resource post later today.

       

Less than a month ago, I launched this blog after leaving BootStrapMe.com and the response thus far from readers has really been better than I expected.

 

More posts (helpful, I think) will be on the way soon, and this whole new venture is part of a larger effort I call PostRanger.com.

 

The larger blogging community is something I’m hoping we will see grow in time, but for now I cannot thank regular readers enough for the attention they’ve givern this brand new enterprise and am thankful for it.

 

I’m also thankful to those of you who have joined our Yahoo!, MyBlogLog and MySpace groups and hope more of you will in the future in the hopes that we will together create a very special network on the Internet for bootstrap entrepreneurs interested in changing the world.

 

Stay tuned for some of my favorite bootstrapping links coming later today as a special thanks to readers…

 

Photo Credit: Mary R. Vogt, MorgueFile