Strategy, to define it simply, is a method for manifesting a desired outcome.

How well your strategy performs is effectively how good you are at manifesting reality. And as much that sounds theoretical, advances in quantum physics validates this statement. The law of attraction holds true.

Furthermore, it is your big, ultimate vision that is most essential to your success, not the strategy itself. Strategy is a means to and end result, and thus it cannot exist without a specific & precise result defined in advance. Your strategy is based on the results you want to achieve. Your vision.

What is the vision you have for your business in the end ? What does it look like when you get to where it is that you want to be? Specifically denominate the end results as elaborate as you can : in dollars, in time, in the impact you want to make, and in the results you want to create. And from this, you can deduce objectives...

This in depth font review gives you the advantage of seeing about a hundred cool fonts you can quickly deploy on your upcoming design project. This first edition of my pursuit to identify the 2000 best and most coolest fonts - involves establishing a huge reference of the highest quality fonts: EVER MADE.

The process begins in alphabetical order, starting with today's posting: font file names starting with the letter "A". Followed by an upcoming post for "B" later next week.

This is an excellent reference, because not only am I providing you the names of the best fonts, but I have created for each font a unique phrase to best exemplify the emotion it portrays. So you can more effectively see the font in a relevant context.

There are literally tens of thousands of fonts out there. Having just the best and highest quality fonts installed on your system will save you time. Being more effectively able to find the right font on your project is the objective in this massive reference.

To download the actual fonts, for now you can simply Google the font for yourself and find the appropriate download page. Many of these are commercial, so not all of them are going to be free. Yet the perfect font for an important project can certainly justify the expense.

Bookmark this cool font reference and then be sure to check back soon for the upcoming "best fonts starting with the letter B. "

A.C.M.E. Secret Agent

Aardvark Cafe

Everyday and every night, throughout all far reaches of the planet, there exist artists, designers, and CSS gurus who are developing the coolest looking new websites. For your viewing pleasure. And a simple bookmark can capture their design for an eternity (or until a server issue, but that never happens).

Over the past year, I have cultivated a thorough supply of these bookmarks; entailing several hundred in fact.

Of this massive collection, I have carefully selected only the best one hundred - and have placed them in this specific order, based on a complex algorithm of nerd website standards.

Although the algorithm is closely guarded, I can reveal indeed the nerd standard comprises of impressive artistic style, clean coded CSS, well organized typography, tasteful colors, and creativity.

Herein lies the top 100 Best CSS Designs of 2008. Congrats to the skilled persons behind each of these impressive designs. You have now reached nerd status.

p.s. - wait a minute, it's February already ? Okay we are certainly we are well into 2009 for another "08" list - but better late than never. Last year you also received the Nerd Business Top 100 CSS Design award list so certainly I am true to my annual obligations, even if they are a bit late. Enjoy !

MAREXdesign

#100

Gold is a solid investment. Literally. And privately owned gold is perhaps the most significant investment you can make - because it truly is the only real measure of monetary value. Fiat currencies come and go (as we are witnessing with the US dollar) yet gold bullion coins & bars have been accepted as a store of value for thousands of years.

Today, demand for gold bullion is unprecedented. The economic crisis stemming from the US has provoked a huge demand as investors rush to attain the most fundamentally sound investment known to man - gold - as a hedge against inflation and economic uncertainty.

For my new blog theme I created a 3D RSS icon (seen crashing into your right hand side). Making a 3D RSS icon for your blog can quickly be done using the technique I'll describe below. For this tutorial we'll be using Photoshop & ZBrush.

Overview: ZBrush, then Photoshop

We'll use ZBrush to create basic 3D shape of the RSS box. Then with a high resolution image of the symbol (the two lines and the dot) we will "stamp" it into the model to create the displacement & texture. ZBrush's rendering engine can then create a nice quality image. And finally, we'll bring it into Photoshop to enhance the color and make the transparent background.

Recently I've launched the new theme for the Nerd Business Blog. Hope you enjoy it. For your benefit, here I will provide a rough overview of the design process.

The Concept

The first step to creating anything: is to have a solid concept of what you want to create. The old adage is true - everything starts with a vision. Whether you're envisioning the success of a business enterprise or a design for your website - you must first have a grasp on what the final result will be.

In the circus show of modern day mainstream media you can watch countless hours of boring, repetitive economic analysis. In the midst of all this fluff & hyperbole, only a handful of experts stand out from the crowd.

These experts are unbiased. They represent principal and value. They speak with integrity... they are the most honest economists of our time.

#3 Jim Rogers

A Wall Street legend, Jim Rogers has a unique perspective on the economy that is generally in contrast to the mainstream reports.

How can you buy a business with no cash of your own? It's actually simpler than you might think. And surprisingly few people know about the strategy - so I'm going to spill the beans on this arcane method right now.

The way you do it, is by leveraging the assets of the specific business you want to buy: at about exactly the same time you buy that business.

It's called a full leverage buyout: acquiring a company by using the assets and cashflow of that company to finance the purchase.

Although the strategy is generally unknown to most internet nerds and even general business owners: big corporations have been doing it for a long time. And the strategy has become an accepted and widely practiced financing strategy.

But nevermind the big corporations. For the small business owner or an individual starting with little or nothing: leveraged buyouts can effectively help you skip the 2 to 5 years it generally takes to build a strong company.

After selling a few websites on the SitePoint Marketplace I decided it was time to splurge on a new laptop. But not just a laptop: I wanted to fit my new notebook into the perfect laptop bag.

As a business nerd - I would need something that is strong & portable, yet lightweight & professional looking. So it can survive rugged travel AND look professional at meetings.

Which is quite the challenge - because it's hard to find a durable laptop bag that doesn't make you look like a dork when you walk into business meeting.

So I did some research on the best solution. And the results are surprisingly different than you might expect. Yet I'm absolutely convinced that I have discovered the best laptop case & backpack solution. Here are the four elements to make it happen.