I went to see a client today. He called his receptionist a “bafoon” in front of myself and a student from my course. What would you do?

I am launching a free site that allows you to speed network using your webcam, mic or chat window. It’s not half as creepy as it sounds LOL. I am hoping you will be one of my beta testers if you think you could use a site like this to increase your contacts and exposure.

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Have you dealt with a seminar speaker who made you angry? Plenty of “public speakers” out there are amazing at what they do. They inspire, motivate and educate you. But a few douchebags ruin it for those of us who try to deliver value.

If you are a speaker take notice. Don’t treat your audience like a room full of wallets. Stop making us stand up, scream shit out loud or say YES 20 times before you try to get them to sign up to your “better” seminar.

People are not stupid, your audience is not a heard of cattle. Stop treating them like hypnotized monkeys.

Talking to freelancers you get a sense that they are missing their true calling. Some very talented people are trading all their time for money.

Highlights of this video:

• Freelancers need to create products
• Woothemes pulls $3-4 mil per year selling wordpress themes
• I am now offering coaching by the hour to freelancers (I know right.)

Click over to the Hire Me page and grab an hour skype call with me. I bet I can give you an idea or method you haven’t considered and help you create value for yourself and others.

It occurred to me today that people use the term “saturated market” very loosely.

If you do a little research (Wikipedia) you will learn what market saturation really is. The term is used to define a product that has hit the diffusion point in a marketplace. The best examples here would be the refrigerator, automobiles and even the famous George Foreman grill.

These products are saturated because the majority of households that need these products already have them.

More often than not people use this term to describe competitive markets. Most often I hear it used as an excuse for not entering into a competitive space. Unless you are planning to start refrigerator company, car company or make a better electric grill, chances are your market is not saturated.

He someone asked me today if I thought the dating market was saturated. My first response was kind of jerky because I thought it was a stupid question. But then I realized that most people just don’t understand competitive markets.

The dating space is far from saturated for a number of reasons. Firstly, every day thousands of people enter the dating market online. Secondly research shows that most of these people will buy more than one dating membership. Some people get addicted to shopping for a new mate to the point where they become serial daters.

There will always be room for a new dating site with a new angle to come in to this competitive marketplace and scoop up all the business. That still doesn’t make the dating market saturated

I remember several years ago I was selling a piece of search engine submission software, and someone e-mailed me asking me why I bothered including Google in my software when clearly AltaVista and Infoseek are dominating the market. Imagine if Larry Page and Sergey Brin thought that way. We would still be using search engine’s with antiquated algorithms and a poor user experience.

I also remember when Internet Explorer and Netscape dominated my desktop or browser supremacy. Then this little unknown startup called Firefox came out of nowhere and entered into what some people might consider a saturated market. Today Firefox is a major player in the browser space.

The last example I will leave you with his MySpace.com. Certainly not the first social network, but easily one of the largest in its time. A little unknown social networking site for college students opens itself to the public and quickly outpaces MySpace’s market share. Some people might have said social networking was a saturated market before Facebook came along.

The truth is, the best categories to enter online are the ones with the most consumers regardless of how competitive you might think the market is.

Justin Popovic shares how he uses Screenflow or Camtasia type software to slowly reduce his support time to 0. Every time a question is asked of him he records the demo answer for the client then posts it in his customer service back end.

The year is 2010. Do you think logos matter?

I would really like your thoughts on the subject. You think that any company would be better or worse off if they had a different logo? Assuming of course their logo isn’t a giant turd.

Tell me what you think about the subject. I am still undecided.

Justin Popovic and I talk about the entrepreneurs struggle to decide when to bring in outside help. I have always had at least one employee, to me it’s an essential part of my business. Allowing me to focus on my strengths while letting others pick up the slack.

Truth be told, I couldn’t do everything on my own. Without Claire handling my finances, Megan handling EVERYTHING else, and my various outsourcers doing the work that we are all terrible at, I would not be where I am today.

I think one of the best things you can do as an entrepreneur is embrace your strengths and hire people to handle your weaknesses. The older I get the happier I am to admit when something is out of my realm.

Outside of this video my best advice to you is to begin outsourcing a few of the tasks you hate the most. Somebody somewhere is really good at those tasks and will be happy to do them for you in exchange for a small fee.

I would love for you to share your story below. Maybe you could tell us about your first employee hiring decision or if you are struggling with the decision now.

It’s important to understand the value of an idea. Without a proof of concept or some type of prototype in place you are going to have a very hard time selling your idea.

I’m not talking about a formula, calculation or piece of software. If all you have is an idea my belief is that there is no value until you bring it to fruition.

What are your thoughts on the subject?