How to Find the Big Money Idea
Everyone has plenty of ‘ideas’. In fact, you may have a great idea right now that you’ve been itching to get started on. But, wait! The real problem isn’t coming up with a great idea. It is recognizing when you have a good one. My friend, Joe Polish, calls these…
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Top 5 Real Estate Investment Mistakes
I’ve been a real estate investor my entire adult life. I love it. I’ve made lots of money investing in real estate using every strategy you can think of. Did every deal work out? No, and some didn’t do well at all. Sometimes you can’t do anything about it, and…
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How to Get People to Do Things for You
What do you open first when you get the mail? The handwritten envelope or the computer generated envelope? Of course you open the handwritten envelope first. After all, how many handwritten envelopes do you see each week? Not too many. Because you receive fewer handwritten envelopes than you do computer generated, whether you know it or…
READ MORE9 Hot Startup Cities That Aren’t San Francisco or New York
msn money 9 HOT STARTUP CITIES THAT AREN’T SAN FRANCISCO OR NEW YORK Ask someone to name cities with thriving tech, media, fashion or food scenes, and you’ll hear the usual suspects: San Francisco; New York; Portland, Ore. But there’s a slew of other metro areas with established infrastructure and…
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Paying To Play – The Payoff of Live Events
There I was, sitting in the back corner of this big conference room trying to hide from everyone. “What the heck did I get myself into”, I murmured out loud. “I don’t belong here. Maybe I should leave and ask for my money back. Nobody will even know I am…
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Four Things You Must Know About Selling
Who doesn’t want to make money doing what they love? There’s nothing wrong with that. But, is starting your own business that simple? It can be if you have the drive, dedication, and passion…AND…you know how to sell. I don’t mean the car salesmen type who is in your face the second…
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10 Things You Need to Know Before Buying Your First Rental Home
Ready to jump into real estate investment and buy your first rental home? The gyrations of the stock market in August 2015 certainly is bringing other forms of investing to the top of people’s minds. Investing isn’t an “all-in” thing, or it shouldn’t be. Diversification is the advice most stock…
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The Big Idea Formula (new story)
Big lesson today. A big IDEA lesson. It starts with the story going around the Internet these days about a young man who ate at Chipotle 150 days in a row. How this is “news” is beyond me, but there is a big marketing lesson buried in this tabloid journalism. One of…
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Why You Should Give Up Trying to Get Clients
In just a few moments, you’ll understand why you should “give up” trying to get clients. The secret is to make a shift from focusing on outcomes to focusing on process. Please read that again, because you really want that to sink in. It’s completely the opposite of what we’ve…
READ MOREConnecting With Your Prospects’ Dominant Emotions
When you set out to create a sales message that connects with your prospects’ dominant emotions, you have no choice. You have to begin with the prospect. You begin by considering his most intense feelings about … Himself relative to the subject at hand … The benefits your product and…
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Investing As a Limited Partner Outside of Wall Street
It was 1985. Our direct marketing business was growing rapidly. For the first time in my life, I was making much more money than I could spend. Most of those extra dollars were invested in stocks and bonds. I was comfortable with the bonds but I was skeptical about the…
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