Pat O'Bryan

How to be rich?  Specifically, how can YOU be rich?

Let’s play with that for a while, shall we?

This blog post rambles on a bit, but there’s some good stuff if you take the time to read it.  The part about getting rich and Internet Marketing is mostly at the bottom.  Scroll down if you’re in a hurry.  Thanks!

Here’s my story:

Which way?

One of the most important tactics a business owner can implement is “pivoting.”  When something’s not working, stop doing it.  Fast.  When something is working, do more of that.  There are times when “something else” is what you should be doing.

The trick is to define “working” correctly.  One definition of “working” is whether or not an expenditure in energy, time or money is returning a profit.  Another one, and the one we go by here at Practical Metaphysics, Inc., is Read the rest of this entry »

Coach Surfing Ori and the Portable Empire Guy – part 1.

Maybe I’m having a mid-life crisis.  It’s long overdue.

Me and Ori getting down to it.

Like my son said on my last birthday, “You’re not exactly MIDDLE aged any more, are you?”

Thanks, kid.  (I had another birthday a couple’a weeks ago.  For pics and story, go HERE.)

Anyway, I’m ready for a change.

I think I’ll get a couple of fancy sports cars and start hanging out with younger women.

Not.  How about this?

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Make money from anywhere.

That’s the goal, right?  Click a button and cash floods your bank account.

There are a lot of blog posts on here about the “make money” part.  Today, I’m going to riff on the “from anywhere” part.

The new Portable Empire road machine.

The last time I was in Terlingua, I pulled into Ted’s recording studio and saw what was either a big van or a very small RV parked at the loading ramp.  It was Ray’s Winnebago Rialta, the likes of which I had never seen before. Read the rest of this entry »