Promise #5 For The New Year: To Get Off Your Ass!
If you didn’t reread your list of New Year’s resolutions last night and this morning, do it now. Yesterday, you promised yourself that you would develop a skill that had the potential to make you big money. Today, you are going to promise yourself to make it happen. Here’s what…
READ MOREDeveloping A Financially Valuable Skill
Well, here you are, still plugging away and its already day four. You are now in the top 30%. Good work! Did you reread your list of New Years resolutions last night and this morning? If not, do it now. Today, you are going to promise yourself that this year…
READ MOREAccomplish 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 (www.earlytorise.com) the other day that reminded me of something very important one of the great secrets…
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…
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 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 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…
READ MOREThe 3 Most Important Elements Of A Direct-Marketing Campaign
“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” – George Orwell The rule in direct marketing is this: Media first. Offer second. Creative third. This means that: 1. The selection of media what newspapers you advertise in/what mailing lists you rent/what time slots you run your…
READ MOREProfiting From What You Love
“Work is much more fun than fun.” -Noel Coward I had a conversation the other day with OP who converted his love of flying airplanes into a business. OP used to be in the wallpaper business. It made money, but left him uninspired. There must be something better and more…
READ MORE