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The Easiest Way I Know of to Make a Ton of Money
A joint venture is a business deal in which you and one or more other people join forces to make some bucks. Usually, joint ventures are for a specified purpose and period of time. Sometimes, they have broader purposes and last for years. Let me give you an example. KY and I wanted to sell…
Read MoreSo How’s Your Stock Portfolio Doing?
“Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton SH and her husband are looking toward a stronger stock market because they’ve seen their retirement funds decimated. What they have left is still enough to afford them a “nice” lifestyle, as SH put it. But how — I wondered — would…
Read MoreHow Hard Do You Have To Work…Really?
I grew up in a family of 10 people in a small house across the street from the railroad tracks. Every night for several years, I had the same dream: coming back to the schoolyard I played in, chauffeured in a stretch limousine, dressed in a white tuxedo, and carrying a gold-tipped cane. As I…
Read MoreReal Estate Investments As Wealth Builders
Dear Early to Rise Reader: As an ETR reader, you know that MMF is a great believer in real estate investments as wealth builders. In fact, since ETR began, he has been encouraging his readers to invest in real estate as a proven way to make money…potentially a great deal of money. My name is…
Read MoreLet Your Great People Make Mistakes
CL and I were talking about GN. I had said that I thought he had great potential and could play a major role in her company. “Yes, but he’s got a lot to learn about marketing,” she said. “We are always arguing about how to price and position products.” She gave me an example. GN…
Read MoreHow to Stay Motivated About Achieving Your Long-Term Goals
“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes.” – John Ruskin Your most important goals — becoming rich, famous, etc. — can take time to accomplish. Sometimes years and years. How do you stick with them? How do you avoid distractions? How do you…
Read MoreA One-Hour, Six-Month Plan That Will Make Superstars of Your Better-Than-Average Workers
If you want to get the most out of your employees, challenge the best of them to do even better. Focusing energy and time on the bad apples is a waste of time. The middling group will improve when they see the star performers improve. That’s the ETR philosophy. Here’s one exception/addendum: Every so often…
Read MoreHow Bad For Business Is A Negative Employee?
Can one rotten apple spoil your barrel? The answer depends on two things: how good that employee is at his job, and how good the rest of your group is. If the employee with the bad attitude is a weak performer, you should get rid of him right away. If he’s very good at what…
Read MoreSometimes, You’ve Got To Give Up On A Goal — Even Though It’s Easier To Keep On Going
If you really want to be successful in life, you must work long and hard in pursuit of your goals — but you must also be prepared to abandon a path in an instant the moment you discover it is leading you the wrong way. This is one of the hardest lessons to learn. After…
Read MoreHow To Take A Relaxing Vacation
Three things will make any vacation stressful: 1. worrying about your job while you are gone 2. having to handle crises on the phone 3. fearing the inbox when you return Here?s how to solve those problems and enjoy your time off worry-free. * Block out the vacation days on your calendar. Add an extra…
Read MoreDon’t Be A Self-Improvement Junkie — Improve Yourself Instead
When it comes to self-improvement and success, there are two kinds of readers: 1. the perennial student 2. the future superstar Which are you? It’s an important question, and you need to give yourself an honest answer. If you read a lot about success but have not yet made progress toward your goals, chances are…
Read MoreHow to Increase Your Direct-Response Sales 1000% Almost Immediately
“Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer.” – Macy’s motto You can double, triple, or even quintuple your sales by using an age-old technique that’s easy to understand and relatively simple to employ. It was responsible for one direct-mail publisher I know going from a circulation of 100,000 to more…
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