Colors Do More Than Just Decorate—They Define Brand Identity. Discover How Powerful a Signature Hue Can Be and How to Choose One for Your Own Business.
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I was reading an article the week after Christmas that referenced “Boomerang Thursday”. I was aware of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but not Boomerang Thursday. It turns out that this is the day that people return unwanted Christmas presents. Doing further research, I discovered several important business lessons related to Boomerang Thursday. First, the
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Inspirational Quote from Confucius: I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
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Bill Bowerman was a very successful track and field coach at the University of Oregon. Runners at the University often suffered from shin splints, leg cramps, knee, and back issues as they trained. Bill was obsessed with designing solutions to solve these problems. One morning he was in his kitchen watching his wife Barbara make
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With today’s 24/7 news cycle, there is no excuse for an absence of information. There is only the eroding sense of duty felt by Americans to remain informed. If you are reading this post today, share it with your friends and make a commitment to talk to your children tonight and instill in them the value that we as Americans have to remain actively engaged in the news and public issues affecting us all.
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As you might imagine I have the occasion to speak to lots of successful business people and spend much of my time trying to understand what attributes make for a successful entrepreneur. One difference I see is how non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs approach education. The vast majority of my friends that have successful jobs working for
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Discover how Zappos uses a simple yet brilliant method to build a loyal team—and learn how you can create your own loyalty test for new employees.
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One of the goals of this blog is to help entrepreneurs think about common problems in totally new ways. To that end, I would like to introduce you to Takeru Kobayashi, who as a rookie in 2001 smashed the world hotdog eating record simply by rethinking the problem. Up to that time, the record for
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My middle son lives in Bentonville, Arkansas: the headquarters of Walmart. This fact made me want to learn more about Sam Walton, Walmart’s founder. As with many biographical stories, Sam Walton’s life provides several lessons for the entrepreneur. Sam Walton began his career in retail when he bought into a 5&10 franchise known as Ben
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Sometimes You Need More Than Trust—You Need Proof. Discover How A Rock Band’s Outrageous Snack Request Became A Genius Test For Truth And Compliance.
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Seattle’s Pike Place Market Isn’t Just a Tourist Attraction—It’s a Masterclass in Understanding Business Location Strategy. Learn How Human Traffic Patterns Can Make or Break Your Success.
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By Leveraging the Powerful Endowment Effect Cognitive Bias, You Can Design Marketing Strategies That Drive Loyalty, Reduce Churn, and Boost Sales Conversions.
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Flipping through the channels the other night I stopped to watch a Jackie Chan movie on TV. As I watched one of the fight sequences I could not help but see many correlations between fighting and operating a small business. First, my attention was drawn to the speed of his movement, which I equate to
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Good marketers also use primacy and recency in their messaging to make sure that potential customers will be able to recall the most important elements of their message.
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People Make Decisions Based on Emotion First, Then Justify Them With Logic. Learn How to Craft Marketing Messages That Tap Into Feelings and Drive Action.
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How to employ a three-page website to test the market’s readiness and verify that a product or service will sell before you make an investment.
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You Can Have the Most Brilliant Ideas in the World, but if You Can’t Sell Them, Someone Else Will. Discover the Timeless Business Lesson Buried in Tesla’s Story.
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Use Your 401(k) Plan to Fund Your Startup—With Help From Your Employer. Discover How Strategic Contributions and a Smart Loan Could Launch Your Dream Business.
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What You Drive Speaks Volumes Before You Ever Speak a Word. Discover How to Read Into Vehicles, Stickers, and Status Symbols to Build Rapport and Close More Deals.
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When a Bakery Cashier Gave My Wife a Surprise Double Stamp on Her Loyalty Card, It Created More Than a Discount—It Built a Customer for Life. Learn How Your Small Business Can Use Similar Gestures to Create Moments That Turn Customers Into Raving Fans.
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Smart entrepreneurs know that getting paid once isn’t enough. Learn how shifting from one-time sales to a subscription model can transform your business into a recurring revenue powerhouse—while spreading out customer acquisition costs and increasing long-term profitability.
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Ever notice that on the trunk of most vehicles, there’s a decal or emblem identifying the dealership where the car was originally purchased? It’s almost like a badge of honor—except most people don’t even think about it. Whether it’s a small, discreet sticker in the corner of the trunk or a bold chrome emblem, that
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Fred Bear is known as one of the pioneers of the modern archery industry but did you know that he was also a remarkable businessman. Fred is best known for being an avid bow hunter and popular writer for various outdoor and hunting magazines, as well as a film producer. As a kid growing up
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There is a bit of an injustice in the way entrepreneurs are told about the business planning process. First, new entrepreneurs are told that to get money from a bank they need a business plan. While there is some truth to this, a major missing piece is that they will likely not get any funds
Increases in the cost of living affect low-income households much more than higher-income households. Therefore, the effects of our government’s monetary policies to control the cost of living are most visible at locations where low-income households shop, such as McDonald’s. If low-income households have less discretionary income to buy a burger, it is an indicator
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In Sales, the Best Pitch Isn’t a Pitch at All—It’s a Conversation. Learn How Asking Thoughtful Questions and Truly Listening Can Close More Deals Than Talking Ever Will.
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Fear Of Failure Is Real, But Today’s Entrepreneurs No Longer Need To Quit Their Jobs Or Risk Their Families’ Financial Security To Start A Successful Business.
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Are You Too Experienced to See New Opportunities in Your Industry? Discover How Fresh Eyes and a Little Ignorance Might Be the Key to Entrepreneurial Success.
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How Do You Get People to Engage When No One Wants to Go First? Discover How the Psychology of Priming Can Help You Fill Dance Floors, Poker Tables, and Sales Funnels.
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Timing Is Everything When Selling to Businesses. If You Overlook Their Budget Cycle, You Might Miss Out on the Sale. Here’s How to Align Your Outreach.
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We experience life through our five senses. Each of these senses is connected through our unconscious mind to various emotions. When a message touches more than one sense it has multiplying effect to create a stronger memory or help in our recall. Therefore, when selling your product or service, try to incorporate as many senses
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Fishing and hunting have lessons for the business owner. Being a hunter and fisherman I often read articles about hunting and fishing strategies. I recently watched a documentary about the whitetail deer population in the US. In 1700 there were approximately one million whitetail deer living in the US. By contrast, today’s estimates exceed thirty
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Discover Why Humor Is a Powerful Sales Tool That Breaks Down Barriers, Builds Trust, and Boosts Conversion Rates. Learn How to Use It the Right Way.
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Operational Excellence – Why Quality Pays: Discover Why Competing on Price Alone Can Backfire and How a Focus on Quality Can Drive Higher Profits and Loyalty.
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When you send a package through the US Postal Service (USPS), you can buy insurance in case they lose your package, or you can save the cost and not purchase the insurance. If you do not buy the insurance it does not mean that the USPS will treat your package any differently. However, with insurance,
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I recently read an article talking about the school voucher program and how it would force schools to be more competitive. While I think there is some merit to the school voucher program there is a much more important business lesson here. A school voucher program would mean that parents could send their children to
Why MPG Is Misleading: Discover How Swapping Abstract Stats for Tangible Costs Can Dramatically Change Buying Decisions and Drive Real Business Growth.
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What Can a 200-Year-Old Battle Teach Us About Modern Business? Quite a Bit, Actually. Discover How Fast Access to Information Can Make or Break Your Success.
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URINAL AD – Public restrooms for men have urinals affixed to the wall. When in use the man is forced to look straight ahead at a blank wall. With a captive audience for a minute or so, some establishments display advertisements positioned at eye level. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION – Many buses, light rail, and taxi companies
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WALL PAINTING – Contact the owner of an old barn or blank-walled building to see if you can hang or paint your message. Or use a variant of wall painting, and utilize a projector to display your lighted message on a blank wall for even greater impact at night. AIR DANCER – You have seen
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MAGNETIC CAR TOP SIGN – Pizza delivery vehicles often employ a magnetically mounted roof or window mounted sign. In most cases, these signs include an internal light that plugs into the vehicle’s cigarette lighter, which draws even more attention to the sign after dark. The signs are visible across a sea of cars and in
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BANNERS – The other day I went to the bank and passed a car parked in a dirt lot next to the roadway selling bonsai trees. He displayed a banner that ran the full length of his car, attached by bungee cords, to alert people to the fact that he had something to sell. A
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BUSINESS CARDS – If you have a business to consumer (B2C) business, you can use tools like SimplyAnalytics (often available at public libraries) to identify the ideal market demographic, known as a Groups and Types in SimplyAnalyticsSimplyAnalytics, for your product or service. Within the text of each “Type”, the segment is a description of the
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Brand awareness often is not directly responsible for making sales, but aids in the conversion rates of more direct marketing and sales efforts. The brand’s message has to be constantly repeated to cross the divide from the unconscious mind to the conscious mind before it becomes effective. Therefore, brand awareness is a constant effort. It
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Many Government-Issued Licenses Still Exist Long After Their Original Purpose Has Faded. Are You Guilty of Doing the Same in Your Business? Let’s Explore the Parallels.
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When you have a company that sells Business to Consumer (B2C), canvassing a neighborhood in the early stages of the business when you have more time then money can often be an effective way to gain customers. When ringing a stranger’s doorbell, it is best to start out with a few non-business questions/statements to build
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Discover How A Simple Sequence Of Roadside Signs Can Create A Lasting Marketing Impact. Learn Why This Old-School Strategy Still Works In Today’s Digital Age.
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Discover the golden rules of outdoor advertising that make billboards effective for building brand awareness and driving customers to your business. Learn how a few well-chosen words and a smart location can make all the difference.
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Every Customer, Regardless of Your Industry, Wants the Same Nine Things. Learn How to Recognize and Deliver What Truly Matters to Your Customers—Before Your Competitors Do.
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Rethink Everything You Know About Job Security. In Today’s Economy, Starting a Micro Business May Actually Offer More Stability Than a Traditional Job.
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How To Make Every Call Count: Savvy Entrepreneurs Don’t Do Cold Outreach. With The Right Tools, You Can Warm Up Any Call And Gain A Competitive Edge.
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Social Security is a major component of payroll in any business. Social Security is essentially a federally administered fixed annuity. A fixed annuity is a readily available commercial insurance product where a person makes periodic deposits in return for fixed future payouts. With a fixed annuity the issuer (the insurance company or the government) assumes
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Longhorn Cattle were introduced to the Americas by the Spanish between the 16th and 18th centuries. The cattle industry back then was primarily a small-scale industry. Beef was not very popular, so cattle were raised primarily for the value of their hides. Because there was no refrigeration, any cattle used for beef had to be
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Understanding How Emotional Life Events Influence Luxury Buying Behavior Can Help Businesses Ethically Connect With Customers Seeking to Restore Their Self-Esteem.
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Is Illegal Immigration Actually Better for the U.S.? This post explores how social welfare programs, legal status, and economic incentives shape the modern immigration debate. Discover why the economic benefits of illegal immigration might outweigh the costs of legal pathways.
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That got me thinking about the role licensing plays in business. A common belief is that state licensing is necessary to protect the public from bad actors. The reality could not be further from the truth. Can you imagine a group of people getting together and spending their time and money to create a petition
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I recently read an article about Uber Taxi that got me thinking about the role the government plays in creating monopolies. For those not familiar, taxis are licensed and are given a medallion to prove they are licensed. Uber Taxi is a ride-sharing mobile application where any car owner can list their location and make
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Most Decisions Have Tangible and Intangible Impacts. Savvy Entrepreneurs Know That Success Depends on Weighing Both—Not Just What You Can Easily Measure.
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Retirement accounts qualify for special tax treatment by the IRS. A common retirement account is a 401k, where pretax dollars from you, which are often matched by your employer, are deposited into an account and allowed to grow tax-deferred. These funds are designed to create income during retirement and are subject to premature distribution penalties
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By transferring a traditional IRA into a self-directed IRA, the IRA owner can invest in private businesses and in real estate as well as traditional sources
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Many would-be entrepreneurs have money tied up in retirement plans like IRAs or 401ks that could be used to fund their businesses. Many simply believe they can’t access these funds until they reach the age of 59.5 without being subject to a premature distribution penalty. That being said, there are a few ways that you
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Discover Why the Graduated Income Tax May Be Doing the Opposite of What It’s Intended to Do—Keeping the Poor From Ever Becoming Wealthy.
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Excessive Company Profit Is Not Inherently Unfair. The Profits from Success Business Ventures Offset the High Number of Business Failures. If High Profit Was Not Possible Nobody Would Invest. Moreover, When A Business Sees Success, It Is Often Fleeting and Requiring Investors to Demand a Return-To-Exit.
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Discover How Local Economic Developers Are Giving Small Businesses Access to Powerful Benchmarking Tools Like SizeUp. See How Your Business Measures Up Today.
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Income tax is paid on a company’s Net Profit which is the amount that is left over after you subtract your COGS, business operating expenses and allocations.
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I think we would all agree that making a profit is the incentive to take risk through investments. Moreover, it takes investments to stimulate innovation. But innovation creates productivity gains, which in turn eat into profit. For example, a tractor that costs as much as the labor cost for 150 workers, but which can do
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Sometimes we need to know when to quit, but sometimes we need to hang on to obtain our dreams. There are several times when a business’s prospects might look pretty grim. At these times, if the owner was offered a fraction of the money they had invested in the business, they would gladly take it
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Sometimes Entrepreneurs Can’t See The Warning Signs That Their Business Is Failing. A Second Opinion From An Outside Expert Could Make All The Difference.
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The sustainability of your business revenue is important to understand if you want to keep your business solvent.
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China keeps its currency low to stay competitive—and that can benefit American entrepreneurs, but only if tariffs don’t erase the cost advantage.
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A trade deficient or a trade surplus unto themselves are not necessarily bad things. A trade deficit simply means that you buy more from your trading partner than he buys from you. The opposite is true with a trade surplus. You have a trade deficit with Wal-Mart, but a trade surplus with your employer. If
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Most Debt Gets a Bad Rap, but Not All Debt Is Created Equal. Learn How Entrepreneurs Use Strategic Borrowing to Fuel Growth While Avoiding Costly Pitfalls.
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Labor is a major component cost of any product or service. The lower the labor costs, either the wider the margin or the cheaper the price of the product or service. Cheap labor can be had by either opening our borders to immigrants who are willing to work for less, or by outsourcing. I contend
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Want to Know How Fast Your Money Can Double With a Specific Interest Rate? The Rule of 72 Makes It Incredibly Easy to Estimate Investment Growth Timeframes, Empowering You to Compare Options and Make Smarter Financial Decisions.
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Working More Hours Won’t Make You Rich—But Understanding How to Leverage Free Cash Might. Learn Why Investing, Not Hustling, Is the True Wealth Strategy.
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When rewards get big—like a soaring lottery jackpot—rationality often takes a back seat. Learn how this seductive force influences both consumer behavior and entrepreneurial decision-making, and discover how you can ethically use it to boost your sales.
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Discover How Leveraging Global Labor—From Virtual Assistants to Developers—Combined With Smart Cost Strategies (Even With Tariffs in Play), Can Help Grow Your Business and Boost Personal Wealth.
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Investments made in your own business or in the stock market have investment risks that can be broken down into seven distinct types of risk.
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Taxing the rich reduces the relative incentives and encourages more coasters. In school, smarter people should not get a harder test simply by the virtue that they work harder than the slackers that do not study. We should reward people for risking their personal capital to start a business that creates employment. Rewarding lucky risk
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3 types of Investment risk. Greater risk = great rewards. Range = Inventory, least risk/reward, thru production equipment, to innovation most risk/reward.
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Harness The Power Of Extremes To Spark Motivation In Yourself, Your Team, Or Your Customers. Discover Why The Middle Of The Pack Is Often The Dead Zone For Growth.
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Stop Trying To Be the Best and Start Focusing on Being Better Than the Alternatives. Learn Why Relative Value Matters More Than Absolute Greatness in Business.
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Understanding the True Motivator Behind Human Behavior Can Revolutionize How You Lead, Market, and Sell. This Post Explores Why Status—Not Salary—Is the Real Carrot and How You Can Use That Insight to Connect More Powerfully With Others.
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Pro-business policies fuel innovation, while pro-labor rules can hinder it. Discover why I turned down a German expansion—and what it means for economic growth.
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When I hear politicians say that we need to bring more offshore manufacturing jobs back to the US, to me it is like saying that we need to move more employment back to the farms. Often the dialog related to manufacturing jobs includes references to more skilled jobs with higher wages. There is one very
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People at the top of the wage scale are mostly employed in “thought” oriented jobs. The productivity of thought oriented jobs has been increasing at a greater pace than the productivity of workers at the bottom of the wage scale, who are mostly employed in “manual labor” oriented jobs. With increasing productivity comes larger margins,
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Learn How Choosing Between Expensing or Amortizing Your Research and Development (R&D) Costs Can Shape Your Business’s Financial Story—And Influence Investor Decisions.
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People don’t buy a radar detector until after they get a speeding ticket, and they don’t buy life insurance until after a bad doctor visit or the sudden death of a friend. Let’s face it: people fear change. They avoid action until an external event, like getting a speeding ticket or a bad report from
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Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, uses a model he calls the Cash Flow Quadrant to explain different ways income is generated. The last quadrant is Investor. As an investor, it is all about having your money work for you. As an investor, you can spread your investment money around to achieve
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Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, uses a model he calls the Cash Flow Quadrant to explain different ways income is generated. Being a business owner is different from being self-employed in that as a business owner you hire employees to do the work. That is not to say that the business
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Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, uses a model he calls the Cash Flow Quadrant to explain different ways income is generated. When you are self-employed, you own a job. The government also refers to this group as non-employer businesses, where the owner is the only employee. When you are self-employed you
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Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, uses a model he calls the Cash Flow Quadrant to explain different ways income is generated. When you are an employee you know you will get a paycheck as long as you continue to work for the business, even if the business is not profitable. Earning
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Discover How Indirect Marketing Strategies Can Powerfully Attract Customers. Learn From Political Campaigns and Fast-Food Giants to Boost Your Business Success.
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How can you get employees to think like owners? Learn how compensation structure, company culture, and incentives can shape behavior that boosts long-term success.
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Regardless of whether you are selling a product or selling your business it is important to make sure you understand what the customer is buying. An early mentor of mine by the name of Ron Muns had a business that developed software to track a company’s assets. After sales began to ramp up to unexpected
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Small Businesses Often Undervalue Their Role When Partnering With Larger Companies. Learn How a Simple Hotdog Vendor Can Teach Us to Rethink Our Negotiation Power.
Understanding the real difference between assets and liabilities can reshape how you view personal wealth and business opportunities. Learn how a $32 million revenue stream was seen as a burden, and why your house might not be the asset you think it is.
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Just Because You Hear Something Repeated Often Doesn’t Make It True. Learn Why Critical Thinking Is a Superpower in Business and How to Start Using It Today.
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Three-quarters of all firms in the United States are categorized as “non-employers”. Non-employers are business that provides work for only a single or part-time owner. While small businesses which employ many people are usually started in response to marketplace opportunities, non-employer business is often started as occupational decisions. They can be a way to deal
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Being totally committed and all in on the success of a business can be the difference between having a successful business and quitting before the business has had a chance to takes off. A few years ago I planted a garden for the first time in several years. The first few weeks were brutal. I
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