Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

Becoming an entrepreneur is tough! But it’s a fun journey. I just wanted to give a shout out to all those people who help others cause they want to see others succeed, and cause helping others allows you to learn more. Which rocks.

I recently wrote about why I’m hiring bloggers and how it’s helped me build my blog network traffic 4 fold in three months. Sometimes when you’re trying to reach for big goals you gotta look for some help along the way.

Bringing on some extra help with the writing has made a huge difference in my ability focus on building my blog network as a business both from a financial standpoint as well as a promotional standpoint. As I’ve mentioned previously I don’t want to start a business where I’m the business.

With that said I’ve also realized that my coding talents only go so far and that there are really only so many hours in the day. I still work a 9-5 job (sometimes way later) at a biotech company as a biomedical engineer, I’m working on planning a wedding (mine), and I also love to help other people realize their entrepreneurial dreams. Currently I’m helping, in as much as I can which probably isn’t enough, my brother and another friend with various aspects of their companies.

Some may say I’m spreading myself way too thin, which I admit I am. (Especially my finance, who I know would love me to get my nose out of my computer.) But the reason I can’t say no to people is one, cause I can’t say no; and two, cause I love helping people that have energy towards doing cool stuff. If someone came to you and said I wanna start my own company, you wanna help me create a website, market my stuff, sell my stuff, would you say no?

I look at it from some other angles as well. If you help them work on their projects, you’ll learn more about all the aspects of business you might not have otherwise learned on your own. And also, they may be able to help you with your stuff. Which has happened numerous times with the current people I’m working with. I’ve gone in gung ho to just help and ended up having them help me just as much as I’ve helped them.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking of a way to write all this down, but just wanted to let everyone know that if everyone helped those around them out just a little more each day, everyone could get a lot more done

So thanks to all those who’ve helped me thus far and to those who will help me later, an early thanks.