Comments on: Do You Diversify?

By: I TAKE OFF THE MASK

I TAKE OFF THE MASK — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:35:55 +0000

Diversification is indeed spreading your risks so you won’t get hit when something happens to one of your sources of income. No matter how much you earn with one source, you can never really be sure it would yield for you forever. Good business advice. Applies also to other things in our personal life.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:01:42 +0000

@ TDMV: This is very interesting. Thank you for coming back to answer my last question. I have to say I’m intrigued by this because I haven’t personally thought about death and dying myself. I prefer to focus on life instead and bu saying I wouldn’t think about the end at times is a lie too.

I suppose right now it doesn’t concern me in ways were it would be a big issue.

For those people who read your blog and need support, I think it is great what you provide them with. I understand they might feel scared, lonely or desperate and need this outlet to connect with others on the same level.

It seems you are doing a great service to the community really with your blog. I really would love to understand this more but I suppose i have to wait until you launch in English.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:56:50 +0000

@ Brett: I’m so excited for you. I really am and I can’t wait for it to happen. You are well on your way now and shouldn’t have to worry about the widget factory at all anymore.

By: TDMV

TDMV — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:35:33 +0000

Intuition plays a more important part in how we make decisions than most of us would care to admit . Although one mustn’t forget ‘common sense’.
Why is this topic so popular? That could be an article in itself, but to be short: people want more and more to express themselves in a more personal way but don’t know how. And, I think, people are slowly becoming aware that death is part of our lives, and not something you try to forget or deny.
Most of my readers are roughly 35-50; they are confronted with the illnesses & deaths of their parents, and start to think like ‘I’m next in line, and I don’t want it like this anymore’.

By: Monika

Monika — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:24:47 +0000

@ TDMV: Awesome. I’m a firm believer of following your gut feeling. It works for me too. Amazing you get picked up from the Media on this kind of topic.

I wonder why this topic is so popular? Do you find it concerns young people as well as old, or are most of your readers older?

By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:57:34 +0000

@Monika,

While there is nothing out in the open officially, just about anyone who took even five minutes to read the tea leaves would see what is coming down the pipe… so I’ve got other plans in the works!

-Brett

By: TDMV

TDMV — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:34:12 +0000

lol .. you would be surprised how many want to find information, and how little can be found on the Internet. But I didn’t simply start a ‘niche business’; the subject had my interest for a long time, and I realised I had gathered info and knowledge but didn’t do anything with it. However, when I started 5 years ago even my best friends told I was crazy. I thought so too but I followed my gut feeling. Turns out I wasn’t only right but it changed more then I had anticipated. Media picked it up, and now ‘death & dying’ is becoming a regular topic in nationwide discussions. Sign of the times? Who knows.. sometimes you just have to believe your intuition.

By: Monika

Monika — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:34:03 +0000

@ Kelly: I hear you. I also understand what you are saying. Like you, I have all these ideas but realized last year that I had to act on something, otherwise I would always chase my tail.

It worked and now I know that unless we focus on an idea and really work it, nothing will ever come of any idea.

By: Monika

Monika — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:32:00 +0000

@ Brett: So does this mean there will be some downsizing happening at the factory soon? That is the thing. People thing their job will be there forever…until it is no longer.

By: Monika

Monika — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:22:25 +0000

@ TDMV: You sound like a true marketer and what you did is not only smart but also the right way of building your business. You saw a demand and delivered.

I must be honest though. I would have never even thought about death as a niche. Interesting to see it works for you. Thank you for sharing.