Accomplish Something from Your New Year’s Resolutions List
If you forgot to reread your list of New Year’s resolutions this morning, do it right now. If you already have, you can feel good about yourself. By day three, another 10% of the population have abandoned their promises. By sticking with the ETR New Year’s resolution program, you are…
READ MOREDon’t Worry About The Problems
“The births of all things are weak and tender, and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.” – Montaigne, Michel de I ran across a memo on the ETR Message Board (dev.earlytorise.com) the other day that reminded me of something very important one of the great secrets…
READ MOREA Revisionist’s Look At The Stages Of Wealth
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” – Jackie Mason In Message #193, I said the following: * If you have a family income of less than $50,000, you are poor in America. * If you earn between $50,000 and $150,000,…
READ MOREInternational Business For Fun and Profit
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau You develop your business in the good old USA. Everything is going well. You are profitable and the business is growing.…
READ MOREPR Checklist
There is nothing that will help you get yourself, your company, or your products recognized better or faster than getting the news media to see you/them as news. Every day, small businesses are propelled into the local or even national spotlight thanks to the interest of some journalist or radio…
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What If You Can’t Afford To Retire?
If you’re bridging the age when retirement is the next step, but feel you can’t afford to retire, use this mindset to approach what to invest your time in.
READ MORESecrets Of A Self-Made Biotechnology Multimillionaire
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Saint-Exupery A great way to get inspired is to read about the success of an ordinary person who takes a good idea (of which there…
READ MORESudden Wealth Loss Syndrome
“Show me a good loser and Ill show you an idiot.” – Leo Durocher Want to catch the next new trend in mental health? How about a business that caters to all the Internet investors who find their mania-based stock-market wealth suddenly disappearing? A Silicon Valley psychotherapist has done just…
READ MOREZara: A Company For The 21st Century
A company profile in a recent issue of The New Yorker suggests what you have to do to be competitive in the 21st century. The company is Zara, a Spanish clothing retailer based in Galicia. It is the third largest business of its kind and the fastest growing, with profits…
READ MOREManaging Employee Turnover
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at something worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt Most businesspeople recognize that high employee turnover is costly. But we sometimes fail to appreciate how insidious the costs are. Besides the actual costs of processing a changeover…
READ MOREHow To Get Rich Making Mardi Gras Floats
”Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” – Pearl S. Buck On a weekend trip to visit NOS (number one son) LF in New Orleans, we took the ferry to Algiers, the poor cousin neighborhood that is located just across the Charles, to see something called Blaine Kerns Mardi Gras…
READ MOREHow to Make Your Business Conference Schedule a Million-Dollar Bonanza
“People only see what they are prepared to see.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Business conventions, conferences, and seminars — you can use them to further your goals or kill time. I have done both and as you might imagine I have an idea about how they should be handled. Earlier…
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