Standing Out From the Sea of “Me-Too” Competitors Online
“The question last Christmas was, if you put up a website will people come? And sure enough they came…. Now we’re in a post-revolutionary environment. Retailers in cyberspace are going to work very hard to differentiate themselves.” – Geoffrey Bock Nearly everyone I talk to wants to know the big…
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“Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.” – George Clason When I started my real estate career, I heard about the necessity of finding private lenders. I even found two of them. But then I stopped because I didn’t get it. For four…
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“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” – Mark Twain Are Web metrics as difficult to measure and analyze as the experts claim? Not really. At least not when you follow the marketing business model used by Agora Inc. and Early to Rise.…
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“I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.” – Robert Kiyosaki Over the years, I’ve helped more than 200,000 entrepreneurs and investors develop the “financial fluency” they need to…
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“Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.” – Michael LeBoeuf There’s no denying that one of the best ways to build a profitable online business is by having your own e-mail list. But how do you get started if you don’t even have…
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“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage – it can be delightful.” – George Bernard Shaw “Business is easy,” according to Sam Zell. “If you’ve got a low downside and a big upside, you do it. If you’ve got a big downside and a small…
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“If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.” – David Ogilvy “Did you buy milk for Daniel yesterday?” “No, I thought YOU did!” So I did what any parent would in that situation. I decanted some of our goat’s milk into the near-empty cow’s milk carton and put it back in…
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“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.” – William James Imagine that you invest $250 into creating a video… and it makes you a $20,000 profit within 30 days! That actually happened to me and my partners earlier this…
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James When I started buying foreclosures, I typically closed only one out of every five deals. Today, it’s closer to four out of five. The secret is really two secrets: I learned all the options a seller…
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“To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.” – Chinese proverb Lots of people who want to get into business for themselves come up with the idea of opening a store. They hope it will provide them with income and, presumably, some equity that they…
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“The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” – Alfred Whitney Griswold Last week, I invited members of our EasyWriters Marketing Club to ask me anything they liked. And I personally answered every single one of their questions in a marathon two-hour live webinar. One of my beloved…
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