Handshaking (previously Handshakin.com) will be undergoing a domain change to Handshaking.com before the end of 2021.

Our business name and website are now formally: Handshaking.com.

​Guess what?  We've made our first buyer a 70% return on their first asset puruchased from us 12 months ago.  

Read the blog here.



Announcement:
Commissions are changing from any previous agreement to 45% starting on sales processed after August 1.  This includes credit card processing fees, and the cost of us hosting your phone number in our account.  Our goal is to send bigger payouts to you with this new fee, not smaller.

​This is due to our recently improved Sales Team Training process, improved sales scripts, and now a sales team that earns a higher base + commission and is four times the size. ​

We are selling one of our rank and rent assets. This is a site that earns money by receiving phone call leads in a specific city for a home service niche. The phone calls are paid for by a contractor(s) in the city.

Gross Sales:
May - $1446.50
April - $1077.50
March - $739.00
February - $535.00
January - $333.10
December - $100.00
November - $726.25
October - $297.40

EDITED April 2022, ORIGINALLY August 2017:

I've worked with many Virtual Assistants (VAs) since the start of handshaking.com who have helped immensely behind the scenes.  After 7+ years of business, and mulitple trips visiting Philippines, and even 1.5 years living there during Covid-19, this guide has changed a lot.

Recently, we had two dozen Filipino full-time team members, but as of today we have downsized our sales team to keep the winners.  

​When starting, as a bootstrapping entrepreneur, I could only grow as fast as sales increase, without taking significant monetary risk investing in payroll.  It's possible to take a risk hiring 8 Filipinos, while that would not be possible to hire 8 Americans--I'd be risking our cash flow far too much if most Americans didn't perform immediately within the first montn.  Not to mention the additional payroll, tax, and liability expenses. 

When hiring contractors abroad, your accountant may or may not know, but there's only one tax form that we file which makes it more more simple.

In the early days of Handshaking, I'd hired US based team members before, and let me tell you, that can put a big dent in your checking (and savings) account should you hire too soon, or hire the wrong professional. And that dent will not always come back quickly. 

Want to hire a full-time outsourced employee for a few hundred per month?  Then this is for you.

Posted 1/30/2017, edited 4/10/2021

Have you ever tried the "sharing economy"? I've always been the first out of my group of friends to try stuff and take risks.  

​In my opinion, it presents entrepreneurs some of the best passive income and part-time/flexible incomes while launching their startup.

I've been an Airbnb host (I rented out extra rooms in my house to other entrepreneurs for cash), I have an unused garage space in an investment property on my friends app Stow It, and most recently, I made the decision to list my car on Turo, where you can rent your car to people for cash...  First trip went just fine.  Second one, my car was totalled...

Posted 7/16/2017, Updated 4/8/2021


It's been almost 6 months since I attended NamesCon, and I'm still on fire about domain names, small websites, and how to make money online.  But it all starts with 'owning the land.' 

If you think about the internet as real estate, it really becomes clear where the opportunities lie, and where you're able to make money.

Here's some important insights I've learned after being a domain name investor and online entrepreneur for 3+ years.

Oh, and the photo is of course a handshake with the Founder of NamesCon, Richard Lau. I'm already getting excited for January 2018 just uploading this picture. 

Edited 3/12/2021, Posted 3/13/2017

There are two parts to the creating credibility in online content, the first is widespread prominence and the other is credibility. ​

Establishment of prominence can be translated into getting hits on your business website and getting cited by other websites so your name gets out there into the public. 

Credibility is the hard part. The word "credibility" has a lot to do with reliability, authority, honesty.  And several other characteristics as internet users look for something they trust online.

Posted 7/3/2017, Edited 3/3/2021

Last Friday, I was invited to give a talk to Social Media Day Denver. There was almost 250 paid attendees, and they were an amazing group of social media enthusiasts and bloggers.  I was surprised by how many people already had their blogs up and how many used Wordpress, we previously used Weebly.

But I definitely got everyone's wheels turning on interviewing influencers to accelerate your career and current goals...

Posted 7/6/2015, Edited 3/1/2021

June 25 was National Handshake Day...and the opportunity to learn more about this powerful networking tool.

In business, we shake hands at every networking event, or at least we did before covid dropped the bass.

The handshake is such a common gesture that most of us give it little thought. It's much more important to consider how much hand sanitizer you have left.

Published in 2017, updated 2/2021

What started as a fairly simple picture-sharing social media experience is now changing the game for businesses world-wide. Those that don't already have their own Snapchat channels will fall behind in the coming years. ​

Seriously, if you look at Taylor Swift's twitter, who knows if she's writing her tweets, but if you add her on Snapchat and see her taking a selfie or video.  You know it's real, and it's her.  Video builds more trust that text today in 2021. 

I'm talking about the entrepreneurs that don't have co-founders, not ones without a significant other.  Nor am I promising a tip every single week.

Maintaining a killer personal brand separate from your business brand is essential for those looking to networking both on and offline.
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