A good deal can bring you a lot of money and multiple opportunities. But, good deals can be toppled by bad deals before the good deals pay off and reach their full potential.
Bad deals come in myriad ways, but I want to point out things that bad deals typically have in common.
If you’re looking to leverage social media and technology in your business contests and sweepstakes may just be the best thing that happened to your marketing strategy. Sure, contests and sweepstakes have been around for decades, and, yet, they are being used in a totally different way with the growth of the social web. Although they may not solve every small business marketing challenge, they should be implemented as part of every social media marketer’s strategy. Here’s why.
Here’s why…
1. Three years ago, I said we should take our medicine and face reality – we are living way beyond our means and continue to do so.
2. The stimulus as I predicted did not work because government borrowing and investment does not have a real solid multiplier effect.
3. Government spending as a percentage of GNP has averaged 20%, but we are spending 25%.
4. Taxing the rich does not work. Statistics show over time tax revenues will adjust to a certain level and not increase where there are tax disincentives.
Get Rich Click by Marc Ostrofsky blows away any idea that all the opportunities on the internet have already been mined. Marc brilliantly shows that the internet is full of mines ready to be discovered and claimed.
Get Rich Click outlines endless possibilities to build income and net worth with the combination of the internet, mobile and social media. Instead of being overwhelmed, Get Rich Click takes you by the hand, explaining chapter by chapter how each piece of the internet puzzle…
Unfortunately I have found many times that people and companies exaggerate who and what they are. So many times I have seen people and companies try to impress me with their offices, cars, expensive lunches, name-dropping. Many times, beneath the exaggeration…
If you trace most people who became successful, contrary to what may have been said, they bet most of their resources on one business, one specific career, one type of investment. They…
We are social beings. Many people want to make money s they can achieve a certain group status and belong. This drives many entrepreneurs. Some entrepreneurs…
As peculiar as this may sound, almost anything I can conceive, however brief, involves a story…
It has always amazed me how some people are so willing to believe the worst about some person or company based on someone’s comments…
I found that better communicators are able to elicit personal details from others and truly enjoy the exchange…
Commitment. The ability to make a commitment is critical to success…
Empathy is listening and questioning skills. If I find myself in a meeting where I’m viewed as just a money provider, I’m not interested in…
Flexibility of mind is key to understanding oneself and others…
One of the main challenges that I find with a number of people who come in to me or others is they have an idea, but they really don’t break it into steps that they can implement in business…
High energy level. Life is energy. The key is how…
Some people are not honest with themselves. They are in conflict with what money means to them. They are “sensitive” to…
The intuitive (gut feel) separates the great investors, the great business builders…
so don’t emphasize, tell, or sell people on all your good intent unless motive is at issue. Sell them results: intent plus effort. It’s that extra…
Too many people are manipulative. They try to guess at what…
The resourcefulness corollary is the principle that probably separates the successful from non-successful people: The ability to handle the negative…
Don’t invest in a salesman without an experienced operator…
Today, software, entertainment, media properties’ value rests more on intellectual assets…
The Entrepreneurial Mindset – resourcefulness – is a key to achievement in life and business…
Without understanding the concepts of leverage – compound interest multiples, business and relationship fundamentals – you will be doomed to hard work but not the full rewards…
Do you awaken early and twist and turn about money, your company, who to believe and what to do next? For many today, money has dried up and people doing what they say they will do is rare. When you get up and have these thoughts, you should realize that this is very common. You [...]
Your company has a great idea. You also have a problem called the execution gap. It is a perceived gap between your company’s strategies and expectations and its ability to meet those goals and put ideas into action.
Red. It had that Apple iPhone red with which you are so familiar. But, there were no Macs or iPhones or iPads then.
It was a cold pewter gray wintry day in Woodmere, NY where my Grandpa Eddie and my Grandma Teresa, more Tillie to her friends, lived.
The Holiday dinner filled the smallest 50′s ranch house nestled on a side street among other quaint nondescript homes.
The computer virus is mightier than the sword.
According to Live Shots, the Stuxnet computer virus may have done more harm to Iran’s nuclear program than the worse of Israeli air strikes could have done.
You spent your resources being their R&D guinea pig.
Google is no different. Monoply-like distributors have done the same with energy, telephones, television, radio and computer operating systems.
A friend sent me this uplifting story story, written by a Metro Denver Hospice Physician…My hope is that you too share it with those you know and care for:
‘Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.’
Uncertainty, fear, lack of opportunity are just some of the reasons today’s WSJ headline points out that corporations are clinging to cash.
This could affect your financial health. Today’s Wall Street Journal headline is another reminder of how bad the Washington dynamics have gotten. Like a bunch of sharks in a feeding frenzy, there is a “scramble by lawmakers and industry lobbyists to get favored provisions into the bill.” Whatever the outcome, you are witnessing the world [...]
Beware: Do not rejoice so quickly. Obama has little choice in making a political gesture to the center to save his Presidency.
The Problem Remains:
The problem for entrepreneurs, small businesses and the country is that they need private equity to get off the ground and create the needed jobs. Two thirds of job creation comes from small businesses.
“The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditures, but in its wise application.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
Your first instinct is to get the money as quickly as possible.
The Irony Of Business And Life
The irony of business and life is that instant gratification or going for the money upfront often gives you the opposite – no money, or some money. Rarely, do you get or make the most money.
You might be wondering how to start a new business that would guarantee you a continuous cash flow. The answer is to create a continuity program. If you have a niche for a business, for sure a continuity program would best work for it.
I will be sharing my 7 Step System and other models and frameworks that will structure, organize, integrate and give you the specific steps that ties up all these ways to get the money online and offline. Whether you are a consultant, small or large business, author, speaker, executive, manager, professional or entrepreneur, you will be shown what I and the very best do to get the money online and offline.
Lately, CNN and other media have been addressing high school and college suicides precipitated by classmates and cyber bullies. This is a growing problem since local shaming and aggressiveness can now be elevated to national and international humiliation using the Internet and smart phones…
Dating, business and the economy have more and more in common: computers, cell phones, delete buttons and instant gratification.
In the online dating world, you can browse thousands of prospects, send messages of interest, get replies and even meet. But, just as fast as you can move your scroll bar and click, you have another choice and another – an endless array of prospects…
True financial success is where money never sleeps but works for you 24/7/365 year in and year out.
Fortunes are made when money compounds. For example, many people offered 1 million dollars today or the sum of a penny doubling every day for just 30 days would take the million dollars and run. Right move?…
There is a huge breakup in the works in America similar to the process of a divorce between two people.
Having gone through a divorce myself, it takes time to sort things out. That is what Americans are doing.
It’s hard to face the facts because:
1. Change is painful
2. Uncertainty yields tremendous anxiety
3. The familiar gives a sense of security…
At some point in your life, you need to make a decision to start up and go for your dream.
That means you have to quit the familiar, the safe, the so-called secure. Life is about the experience and the adventure.
It’s about dreaming the dream and going for it…
The Wall Street Journal’s front page article “College Grads Expand Lead in Job Security” (Monday, September 20, 2010) is juxtaposed against another head line “Bond Markets Get Riskier.” The issues are fundamental: security versus Risk and education versus unemployment. But, even more basic is my belief that all life is an investment of your time, [...]
As I wrote in 2008 on the financial crash, I was in the small minority that would have let the marketing crash.
Now, you may be wondering what I meant then and mean now:
The market has been artificially propped up for years with overborrowing by the government, low interest…
The Right Steps To Grow Your Business – Like Championship Points – Make All The Difference A recent Wall Street Journal article points out that tennis players’ skill level has dramatically improved. A match for 3 or 4 hours can be decided by just 2 or 3 key points. Like in business, it all comes [...]
Here’s what the country faces: The confusion of do gooding and fairness with achievement and success. What ails the US economy and its education system is the constant desire to rationalize the idea of equal outcome. By the nature of being human, you will always have a pecking order. Some will succeed more than others. [...]
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Wow. Author 101 University was a blast. Rick Frishman outdid himself in bringing together over 300 people – entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, agents, publishers, and top-notch speakers.
Yours truly – meaning I – received a standing ovation for relating what it takes to build a real business in today’s environment.
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