Mike's Life POW 13th November 2009

Here are my favorite posts from around the web this week, and it’s a been a much better week. I suspect winter drawing in to the Northern hemisphere may be responsible!

How Pat Flynn lost his job then made $203,219.04 in his first year on line

By Yaro Starak on Entrepreneurs Journey

Classic long, long title from Yaro, and I’m afraid an equally long audio, but what a great story! Download and listen when you have some time – it’s well worth it. Yaro is a great interviewer and seems to always be able to ask the question that you want him to. Pat is amazing and really earned all that money from one E book!

Bill Gates’ plan for fixing the world

By Adam Ostrow on Mashable

Fabulously written, and very interesting to catch up on what Bill has done since he left his Microsoft desk.

While rivals jockey for market share, Apple bathes in profits

By M G Seigler on Techcrunch

Another really well written industry piece. Did you know Apple are sitting on $34 Billion in cash, with no debt? Maybe we should expect some acquisitions?

Headsmacking tip #16: Meet the linkerati in person

By Randfish on SEOmozBlog

Despite the title, it’s a simple how to post, but with a strong message about how to approach A listers and get benefits by doing so.

Choose your customers, choose your future

By Seth on Seth Godin’s Blog

Another classic short from the guru’s guru. “Sell to angry cheapskates and your business will reflect that.” Read it, it’s a gem.

Have you forgotten who owns your blog?

By Lisa Morosky on Lisa Morosky

Fabulous post from Lisa. We all get so hung up these days about freedom of speech, that we sometimes forget our blogs are our real estate on the web. Great reminder.

I’ve had a great week with my RSS reader – what about you? Let me know what you think of these.