So You Wanna Be an Entrepreneur…
It's hard to say which comes first - the desire to be an entrepreneur or the germ of an idea for a business. Obviously, you need both.
Michael Masterson has developed a loyal following through his writings in Early to Rise , an e-newsletter published by Agora, Inc. that mentors more than 450,000 success-oriented individuals to help them achieve their financial goals.
Masterson has been making money for himself and others for almost four decades. At one time or another,Michael Masterson (a pen name used by this ultra-successful businessman)has consulted for and advised multi-million dollar companies that wereboth public/private, onshore/overseas, local/international, service-/product-oriented, retail/wholesale/direct mail, and even profit/not-for-profit.
Masterson is the author of several Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Amazon.com best sellers, including Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat, Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast Track Plan to Becoming a Millionaire; Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence; Automatic Wealth for Grads… and Anyone Else Just Starting Out; Power and Persuasion: How to Command Success in Business and Your Personal Life (all published by John Wiley & Sons); and Confessions of a Self-Made Millionaire and Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Millions for Your Business (with MaryEllen Tribby).
Read Michael Masterson's previous newsletter articles below:
It's hard to say which comes first - the desire to be an entrepreneur or the germ of an idea for a business. Obviously, you need both.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Jan 29, 2011
Liam O'Reilly, a recent graduate from the University of Maryland, told The New York Times that he had applied to 50 employers
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Jan 22, 2011
One of the tasks that is always on my to-do list: "Come up with some original new essay ideas for ETR." Not an easy job.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Jan 15, 2011
Would you like a simple formula for getting rich? Here it is: Find a popular product that is selling for $100. Find a supplier in China to knock it off and sell it to you for $10. Then sell it to the market for $50, half the price it's selling for everywhere else.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Jan 1, 2011
My brother hired SP for $20,000. On the same day, he hired LJ for $30,000. They both had the same qualifications...
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Dec 25, 2010
Last night, after a good dinner, our reassembled-for-Christmas family sat down to watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Dec 18, 2010
Eddie is a very shrewd guy. In 2004, while the real estate bubble was still inflating in the United States, he took a job I offered him to run a real estate development project in Nicaragua.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Dec 11, 2010
Today, I am going to give you a way to make a lot of money. And after I have explained it, I will tell you exactly how to get started. It is a very simple strategy.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Dec 4, 2010
You may be motivated to get to work on a plan to change your life, but worried because you have never been able to work as hard as you know you will need to. You've made resolutions before. And you've even started to make improvements. But you have been distracted by problems and unexpected events. And you have stopped.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Nov 27, 2010
I woke up this morning in pain again. I injured my shoulder wrestling a few weeks ago, and it doesn't seem to be healing. Certainly not as fast as it would have healed when I was in my 30s. This is one of the many execrable things that happen to you when you reach 60. But it's hardly the worst.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Feb 5, 2011
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