How to Get More Done Every Day
Being an entrepreneur is the greatest lifestyle in the world… but it’s not a walk in the park. Most people think there aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything that you want or need to do. As an entrepreneur, you don’t get to complain about that. In fact,…
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How to Change Your Course in Life
You’re about to discover how to get more done, make more money, and still get home on time for dinner. Today you’re going to walk away with 5 personal rules for your life that will make you a better business owner and parent. But before I do that, I want…
READ MOREETR Exclusive: ETR Founder Mark Ford
Mark Ford isn’t your typical success story. From an early age, he knew he wanted to become a writer — but never did he imagine he’d become one of the most sought-after entrepreneurs in the newsletter-publishing world. Mark is also an expert investor, and has started more than 100 businesses.…
READ MORE8 Reasons Your Clients Aren’t Paying You
You did the work. Actually, you did the work extremely well. In fact, not only did you do the work extremely well, you completed the entire project under budget and ahead of schedule. So why isn’t your client paying? All invoicing businesses, from freelancers to major firms, experience delinquent payers.…
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How to Transform Your Copy in 3 Steps
Writing copy can make you feel — as Kurt Vonnegut once said, “like an armless, legless, man with a crayon in his mouth.” Even if you’re passionate about what you do, the keyboard has a magical ability to zap your mojo. The brilliant ideas rattling in your head morph into…
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The 5 Skills to Make You Rich
Longtime readers of mine know I’m always harping on developing skills that will bring their business more revenue. Recently, someone I respect and admire has been humming a similar tune. Doug Casey, founder of Casey Research, echoed my opinions in an essay titled “The single wisest thing you can do…
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Why Split Testing is Pure Profit Science
The second Monday of October is Canadian Thanksgiving. Yes, we Canadians have our own Thanksgiving, six weeks earlier than America. It’s one of my favorite times of the year. The weather is often sunny, starting off with crisp, clear mornings followed by comfortable afternoons, and finishing with beautiful early evening…
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10-Step Action Plan
I love telling this story about the power of the deadline. It takes place in Toronto back when I was living there in 2008, and years before I was able to take over Early To Rise. At the time I was focused on building my online fitness business, Turbulence Training.…
READ MOREHow to Find a Career in Economics
Not everyone loves numbers and the study of economics, but for the many that do, the study of production and consumption could not be more invigorating. In fact, considering the fascinating insight economics can provide into the human psyche ― how economics works to disassemble and understand human behavior to…
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What Facebook Did Right With Employees
On a cold winter’s day in February of 2004, in a Harvard dorm room, a 19-year old Mark Zuckerberg officially launched TheFacebook.com (Facebook’s original digital home). Membership was originally limited to Harvard College but soon spread to other Ivy League schools, and eventually to the world. Facebook grew rapidly, and…
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The Paradox of ‘The One Thing’
Last week I received an interesting question… one that deserved a longer answer than I would give in a normal Q&A. Q: Craig, I just spent the last hour Googling you.. and I found all sorts of stuff. The thing that amazed me was that there wasn’t a single entry…
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A Surprising Thing I Learned About Setting Goals
Why is it, I kept asking myself, that nobody follows my advice on personal productivity? Every January, I write an essay bragging about all the things I got done the previous year, urging readers to use my personal productivity program. But it seems like I convince no one. We get…
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