An entrepreneur’s best friend

Filed Under (Entrepreneur Lifestyle) by JKing on 29-09-2008

An entrepreneur’s best friend is a journal or notepad, where he can write down his business ideas, catchy ads, and other, business related information.

Who creates the best notebooks?

Moleskine Plain Notebook

Moleskine Plain Notebook

Moleskine. Although the name was registered only in 1996 the history of the brand goes back to the 19th century.  According to the company’s ads, lots of writers and artists (like Henri Matisse, Bruce Chatwin, Picasso, Hemingway etc.) have used Moleskine notebooks throughout the last two centuries. The reason for the popularity of the Moleskine brand is simple: the quality of Moleskine notebooks is great.

Moleskine notebooks are bound in oilcloth-covered cardboard, and these notebooks have other special features too, like: rounded corners, elastic band to hold the notebook closed, an expandable pocket inside the rear cover (it contains a sheet of paper about the brief history is Moleskine notebooks) etc.

Personally I think each Moleskine notebook is a piece of art. It’s like the Rolls Royce of notebooks.

Various uses of Moleskine notebooks

Lots of creative people, designers, artists use these notebooks, and there are a lot of sites about sketches in Moleskine notebooks. Some of my personal favorites.

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Moleskine sketches

Moleskine sketches

Moleskine sketch 2

Moleskine sketch 2

Moleskine sketch 3

Moleskine sketch 3

Some people “hack” these notebooks, and cut them in half, some other people add extra features to them, the list is long. You can find a couple of these hack on this page.

Which Moleskine notebook do I use?

Moleskine pocket plain notebook

Moleskine pocket plain notebook

I use a 192 pages long, Pocket Plain Notebook, just like the one you can see on the left. I’ve got two of them currently (one of them was never opened, it’s brand new, and it looks like the one on the left). I use thise notebook to write down my business related thoughts.

Where can you buy them?

Well,  you can buy them from Amazon, eBay, etc. The prices vary, the 192 pages long Pocket Plain Notebook costs around $10.

Useful links:

Moleskine on Wikipedia

Moleskine fan site

Flickr group of Moleskine users (they have some great pictures)

The official website for Moleskine

Comic Strip: Eric makes money at home

Filed Under (Comics) by JKing on 26-09-2008

Everybody wants to make money at home. In today’s episode Eric wants to learn a new “money making technique”…

Eric makes money at home

Eric makes money at home

Comic strip: Eric the newbie entrepreneur 7.

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by JKing on 25-09-2008

This is the first appearance of Eric’s boss, Mr Angrylook.

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Eric and his boss are having a nice little conversation

Eric and his boss are having a nice little conversation

Comic strip: Eric the newbie entrepreneur 6.

Filed Under (Comics) by JKing on 24-09-2008

Eric has big dreams, big plans, bright future. Is he the next Donald Trump or Mike McDonald*?

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The Entrepreneur starts a company

The Entrepreneur starts a company

*= I made up that name, but it sounds awesome. :D

Comic strip: Eric the newbie entrepreneur 5.

Filed Under (Comics) by JKing on 23-09-2008

Eric loves girls. Eric knows how to impress girls…

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Comic strip - Eric the newbie online entrepreneur part 5.

Comic strip - Eric the newbie online entrepreneur part 5.

Comic strip: Eric the newbie entrepreneur 4.

Filed Under (Comics) by JKing on 22-09-2008

It seems like Eric’s last business didn’t really work out…anyway, who knew that King of Narnia is not a real country, and Bolda Adebayo is just a nigerian scammer. Fortunately Eric never gives up, he knows that it’s possible to make money on the net. Here is the next step of his journey, it’s called: Ready for everything.

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Comic Strip - Eric's online business journey

Comic Strip - Eric the newbie entrepreneur

Eric the newbie online entrepreneur 3.

Filed Under (Comics) by JKing on 21-09-2008

Sometimes you look for the opportunity to make money, sometimes the opportunity finds you…

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Eric has tons of opportunities to make money

Eric has tons of opportunities to make money

Eric the newbie online entrepreneur 2

Filed Under (Comics) by JKing on 21-09-2008

Eric is back again, this “episode” is called: The real deal?

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The real deal - Eric the young entrepreneur

The real deal - Eric the young entrepreneur

Eric the newbie online entrepreneur

Filed Under (Comics) by JKing on 21-09-2008

This is an online cartoon, about Eric Ericssen and his mates. Eric is 26 years old, and he’s suffering because of his J.O.B.. It’s the beginning of his life changing journey in the world of internet marketing, seo, ppc etc.

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Eric the young entrepreneur pt.1

Eric the young entrepreneur

Rules

Filed Under (Blog) by JKing on 21-09-2008

Instead of writing some bullshit information about the background of this blog, let’s see the rules:

1. This blog was created for mainly entertainment purposes. If you believe everything, or if you get offended easily, than this blog is not for you.

2. If you decide to comment on one of the posts, don’t comment only “LOL” or “ROFL”…write something meaningful (or at least 1 sentence that contains more than 4 words).

3. Don’t include links to porn sites in your comments.