Business To Investment

Success Self-Sabotage

Have you ever experienced a win or two, stopped to celebrate and then never seemed to get going again? That’s a Success Self-Sabotage. Have you followed through on your plans, created a business and then experienced boredom?  You keep tweaking the model until it’s broken. That’s a Success Self-Sabotage. Or maybe you’ve envisioned clearly your goal and your paths, [...]

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The 90 Day Plan

I have a challenge for you!  As part of Diane’s Mastermind - the quarterly meetings that are a bonus as part of being a private client of mine- we have 90 day plans.  Our first meeting was 1-16 & 1-17.  It’s amazing to think that it hasn’t even been 2 weeks.   I’ve started a business, [...]

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The Next Best Path

I spent some time talking to another writer friend this week.  He was a successful screenwriter (yes, he actually sold movie scripts!), turned musician and now has reinvented himself as an Internet marketer.  We haven’t talked about business for a year and I’d heard rumblings that he had immersed himself in the Internet world, but [...]

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Do This And You’ll Never Have to Sell Again

Do you hate selling?   Maybe you have a business that you love, work that you love to do, but the only thing that you hate is when it comes time to talk to someone about your business.   Or maybe it’s the fear of actually having to close a sale that keeps you from starting your [...]

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Marketing Means Planning

One of the lessons that I’ve gotten hammered into my head recently by the marketing gurus (and I mean this in a GOOD way) that I’m hanging out with is that you have to plan your marketing.  Oh, that and test.  I swear, these guys all went to the same school and if you ask [...]

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Building a Company Without You

I got an email challenge from a friend yesterday that still has me thinking.  Let me pose it to you. Let’s say you have a business that is built around your name.  You’re John Jones and you have services and products all based and selling because of a connection with you somehow.  You’re semi-famous and semi-known [...]

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Information Wants to Be Free

I remember years ago when a marketing guy told me “Information wants to be free.”  I remember at the time thinking, how could “information” want anything?  It’s not a sentient being.  But that aside, how can you make money on giving free things?  It didn’t make any sense at all from a business standpoint. Still, all [...]

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Choking on Opportunity

A saying I use a lot is “The problem isn’t lack of opportunity, it’s choking on opportunity.”  Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve been working on a business plan with a friend of mine.  We both conservatively estimate that we could make $1 mill each over 2 -3 years with it.  So, would you do [...]

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5 Myths of Passive Income

This is a crazy time of the year for many of us.  As you take some time to slow down from the regular day-to-day rush to set goals/resolutions for the year, you might find that your number one goal is to find a way to create some passive income.  Or you could be in the [...]

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Opportunities Exist When People Have Needs

When somebody wants something and you can give it to them, you can make money.  If you find a way to serve more and more, you’ll make more and more.   That’s the real secret of making money, find out what people want and give it to them. That’s why so many people say there are [...]

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