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Win Friends. Influence People. Achieve What You Want
You have heard over and over again that in order to succeed, you just need to work hard, study hard, learn a lot, etc. But there’s a lot more to it than just that. One very important element which rarely gets mentioned is to surround yourself with people that you admire. Yes, it takes people [...]
Want to Succeed? Business Lessons From Abercrombie & Fitch
Since early 2008 businesses have been in a battle to keep the consumer spending. The easiest way to do this is lower the price of goods. As I walked around the shopping mall I could see a constant sea of redness in the windows indicating a sale. This created an expectation in the consumers mind [...]
Building a Business You Love with Joe Knoernschild, Founder of Hurley
Matt Wilson: When you started Hurley you were 26. Can you tell us a story from the early days living the surf entrepreneur lifestyle? Joe K: 1980, 26 years old, happily married with Cindy and our young son Joel, teaching Junior High 4 years, waiting tables, exporting surfboards to Japan and managing Hurley Surfboards. And, I [...]
Money Tips: 10 Best Personal Finance Books of All-Time
Money management is one of the most important skills a young person can develop. Unfortunately, many people lack even the most basic money management skills for one reason or another. It’s why we see so many problems with credit card debt, loans and lack of retirement planning. In most cases the skills needed to fix [...]
The Best Apps to Boost Your Productivity
We have come to that age when most of us wish to have 50 hours a day, because there is so much to do with so little a time. Everyone is stuck in between managing work and other aspects of life. Here comes the involvement of technology, particularly smart phones and gadgets. There are some [...]
Want “Eureka!” Moments? Napping and Relaxing May be the Answer
There’s a reason inspiration often strikes in the shower or on your drive to work: “Eureka!” moments happen when your mind is relaxed. Special relativity occurred to Albert Einstein while riding a streetcar home one day. Philo Farnsworth realized how an electrical television could work when he was plowing a potato field. These moments of [...]
An Unconventional Path to Better Business: Raise Your Rates & Turn Clients Away
“We waste time looking for the perfect business, instead of creating the perfect business.” – Tom Robbins When I started out my own business, I made so many mistakes. Terrible mistakes. The type you wish you could sweep under the rug and hide forever. A year and a half later, the company’s revenue has increased [...]
5 Factors That Affect Your Search Engine Ranking
When creating their website or blog, people tend to think about what they’re going to post on it, thus ignoring the search engine ranking aspect of it. And even if some people realize the importance of quality SEO, because of the huge number of webpages on the internet and due to the different obstacles which [...]
Go Mobile or Go Home
Today’s modern consumers are changing the way they interact with brands. They are changing the way they do business, and they are changing the way they obtain and process information. Is your company hearing what they are saying? The Modern Consumer As a business owner, understanding who your target audience is may only be half [...]
How to Get Yourself to Do the Things That Scare the Sh*t Out of You
Often, it’s doing the things that scare us that can make the biggest differences in our lives. Unfortunately, these very same things are also the tasks that we procrastinate on the most. We put off doing them and cover up our fears with excuses like, “I don’t have the time to do that right now” [...]
12 Strategies for Becoming a Sought-After Speaker
Question: How do you break into the world of speaking engagements to grow your brand? Question by: Ashley Make the Pitch “Draw up a list of all the professional organizations in your industry, and make note of when and where their annual conferences occur. If it makes sense for you, draw up a proposal for [...]
A Practical Guide to Task Management for Small Businesses
Are you worried about your accounting or keep forgetting those good ideas that come up from time to time? You’re probably one of the countless entrepreneurs lacking a solid routine for information storage and project processing. By applying a simple process-based approach to managing your projects on all levels, your productivity level is likely to [...]
6 Tips to Overcome Obstacles and Take Your Business to the Next Level
“I love to compete I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.” By Mark Cuban, Owner, Dallas Mavericks Are you struggling with your business? Is your business taking too much of your time? Are you becoming perplexed because you’re giving so much time and [...]
The Key Components of a Successful Website, Part 2
Designing a website for your new business and don’t know where to start? This is the second part of a series intended to help you with website basics. Custom 404 page A 404 page is the page that a site visitor sees when trying to reach a page that does not exist on your website. [...]
Five Ways to Market Your Business With Social Media
Social Media – a way different media than conventional print or electronic media. It has emerged as a key point in promoting the products online, during the course of the time. Businesses are scrambling to crack the social media code. Most businesses know social media has the power to reach millions of customers, but a [...]
