What To Do When Your Marketing Fails
Sooner or later, every business reaches a point at which it has a hard time marketing its product or service. The promotional and advertising campaigns that worked so well in the past work poorly or not at all. The first response of most entrepreneurs is to do what they’ve been…
READ MOREThe Best Way to Surpass Your Peers and Rise To The Top Of Any Business
What’s the best way to surpass your peers and outdo your competitors? Work harder than they do. If that sounds daunting, consider this: Most people dont work very hard. Some people spend their time doing as little as they possibly can. Most do stay busy, but they are not always…
READ MOREDear Early To Rise Reader
Are you in debt? Have you had enough of working hard to make money… just to find that your paycheck comes in one day and goes out the next to pay your mortgage, your car, your loans, your credit card bills? How much disposable income do you have left over…
READ MOREWhat Role Should Fun Play In Your Business?
I’ve been thinking about fun lately. (Like money, its something we never seem to get enough of.) If you read the business press, you know that fun — having it, creating it, and promoting it — has been one of the primary business concerns of young dot-com entrepreneurs. Some of…
READ MORETwo More Ways To Invest With Experience
How can you invest in something new if you follow the Golden Rule of investing only in things you know about? This is a fundamental wealth-building problem, a problem that I suggested two solutions to in the past: (1) that before you invest in a business, you get to know it…
READ MOREWhy You Should Read The Daily Reckoning
“Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest than to think and consider.” – Thomas Carlyle Instead of making the world smarter, the information revolution is making people dumber. Thats the argument Bill Bonner is making every day in his daily investment commentary,…
READ MORESpeak More Powerfully By Saying Less
If brevity is the soul of wit, taciturnity is the backbone of conversational power. How many times have you found yourself in a situation in which, not being entirely confident about the point you are making, you speak too long in supporting it? Each added statement sinks you deeper in…
READ MOREBuy A Pack Of Index Cards Today
In Message #185, I recommended that you start to use index cards to keep track of the big and small ideas that come to you at random times throughout the day — ideas that could have a big impact on your life but are too easily forgotten if not written…
READ MOREGet Over Your Fear Of Cutting Prices
Norm Brodsky, Inc. magazine’s entrepreneurial columnist, speaks from experience. He’s one of the few business journalists who do so — most are experts or reporters — and consequently is one of the few I trust. He said something in a recent article that I want to discuss today. He was…
READ MOREPromise To Follow Through On Your Career Goals
Of all the qualities that contribute to an accomplished life, none is more important than persistence. Intelligence, knowledge, connections, luck — they are all important ingredients in the stew of success, but persistence is the stock. Persistence is a big virtue comprising many large and small ones, including endurance, tenacity,…
READ MOREHow Smart Is It To Trust Your Employees?
EVM, a Wharton School associate dean and professor, used to lecture students about trust. “People are basically trustworthy, honest, and loyal,” he argued. “If you treat them as such, they will act accordingly.” He retired from academe in 1993 and six years later entered the business world — the real…
READ MORESometimes It’s Smart To Shoot For Second Place
It may sometimes seem like I’m always pushing you in the direction of becoming No.1 — of being your own boss and having your own business. And I won’t deny that I spend a lot of time talking about the advantages of entrepreneurship and equity. But some people are better…
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