Business To Investment

Why Your Business Doesn’t Work Anymore

The economy didn’t change your business, it revealed your business.  More specifically, it revealed your business’s position.  There were a lot of us that were riding the wave of real estate appreciation.  For me, I took my eye off my core businesses and when a partnership failed, followed by real estate collapse, I had to [...]

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Are You Changing Your Environment or is it Changing You?

The higher you go up the food chain, the more control there is on the environment. Consider a rock.  A rock doesn’t have a lot of control over anything.  If a flood comes, it can sweep it downstream.  If a volcano shoots out lava, the rock is stuck.  For that matter, a plant can’t do much [...]

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Businesses That Will Make Millions in the Next Two Years

The economy isn’t getting any better, or at least where I’m at.  But I don’t see as many shell-shocked, stunned people.  It’s like people have woken up and said, “Well, that sucks.  So, what do we do now?”   We have a lively forum over at TaxLoopholes First Class Lounge (www.TaxLoopholes.com) and the business owners there [...]

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Working Both Sides of the Information Age Graph

In the past, the Bell Curve graph ruled businesses.  I can remember pricing items in 3’s and then making sure that the middle item sold the highest.  So, if I had three forms of tax coaching programs at $1,500, $2,500 and $3,500, I’d expect to sell the most of $2,500.   In the past, I’d [...]

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