The Best Place to Find Good Employees is Close to Home
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” – Jane Howard I recently spent weeks trying to find someone to fill a part-time position. After a lot of time and money invested,…
READ MOREHere’s What You Should Do For Your Family…Today
According to USA Today, 74% of Americans with minor children don’t have a will. Are you one of them? I used to be. Until I realized what a mess it would make for my family. Of those surveyed, 39.5% are will-less because they “don’t have the time,” 26.2% think “it’s…
READ MOREThe Psychological Mistakes Investors Make, Part 2
I kicked off this occasional series of articles for Early to Rise in Message #1160 with an excerpt from a chapter of my book “Bull’s Eye Investing” that my old friend Michael Masterson tells me “is worth the price of the entire book.” In that chapter, I identify 11 psychological…
READ MOREHow to Launch a Profitable New Business
If you want to be a business-building genius — or just make a ton of money this year — learn these five proven (and absolutely true in my experience) secrets of highly successful entrepreneurs. Secret No. 1. Don’t spend too much time planning. When you are entering a market, you…
READ MOREBecome a Travel Writer
Dear Fellow Early to Rise Reader, If you’ve ever wanted to travel the world and get paid to do it, there’s now a way to realize that dream. This letter is your motivation to make a wonderful change in your life a surprisingly quick and easy way to…
READ MOREHow to Use Speed to Increase Sales
You can develop a competitive advantage — and increase your sales — simply by making speed your No. 1 customer service priority. Here are a few examples of the way businesses I know have done it: * A major bank based a marketing campaign on a promise that its customers…
READ MOREHow to Get Your Business Going Again
The economy is dragging — and it doesn’t look as if it’s going to improve any time soon . . . if ever. Though most of the businesses I know are still profitable, the margins have fallen and profits are low. Back-end sales are still healthy. But all those sales…
READ MORECutting the High Cost of College
College is incredibly expensive — and the cost rises steadily every year. The typical Ivy League university charges over 35,000 after-tax dollars a year. The typical private college costs $25,000 a year. The typical state university charges over $9,000. With the typical textbook at $100, it’s easy to understand how…
READ MOREThe Four Critical Success Factors for a New Business
If you spend countless hours and hundreds of pages planning your new business venture, you are wasting a lot of time. That’s mostly because you don’t know the most important secrets about the new (to you) market. What’s most critical to know about any business is invisible to newcomers. No…
READ MOREMotivate Your Prospect to Buy in Five Easy Steps
Successful marketers use this well-established, step-by-step formula for all forms of sales copy, including direct mail, e-mail, and Internet promotions: 1. Get attention. Write an effective headline or teaser. 2. Identify the problem or need. Orient your prospect and put him in a receptive mood for what is to come. 3. Position your product…
READ MOREAn Interesting Way to Invest in Foreign Real Estate
About a year and a half ago, Lief Simon advised readers of his “Global Real Estate Investor” report to buy Argentinean real estate. Since then, property in Buenos Aires is up 30% to 40%. In December, he got his readers in on the ground floor of a development where prices…
READ MOREStrategic Alliances for Your ETR Microbusiness
Have you noticed that a lot of businesses seem to be working together? For example, when a major children’s movie comes out, you can buy special cups with the characters imprinted on them at your local McDonald’s. It’s not a coincidence. Efforts like these are called “cooperative marketing promotions.” And…
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