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Triple Your Chances of Accomplishing Your Greatest Goal
“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.” – Henry Ford If you want to triple or perhaps even quadruple your chances of success, partner up with someone who will work with you toward your goal. Two heads are generally better than one — not just twice as good,…
Read MoreMake Your New Project or Business A Big Winner by Focusing on the Highest-Margin Sales
Every business (or business project) has a unique potential for success that is realized when all the key elements are put together in just the right way. Once you understand this recipe, profits come to you reliably and regularly. The challenge for new ventures is to keep the cash flow positive while the recipe is…
Read MoreProductivity Secrets from the NBA: How To Do Everything Better and Quicker — And Make A Lot More Money in the Process
Did you ever notice how many professional basketball games are decided in the last 10 minutes? Plenty. It’s a curious thing. Ten guys jump around like madmen for 50 minutes, the score seesawing a few points this way and a few points that way. Then — halfway through the last quarter — everyone’s attitude changes.…
Read MoreWhy You Should Never Wrestle With a Pig
“Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world.” – Joseph Joubert (Pensées, 1842) I like Mark H. McCormack’s new book, “Never Wrestle with a Pig,” not only because of its intriguing title but also because he admits on Page 1 that he doesn’t have a computer and has managed to successfully run…
Read MoreThe Hooker’s Conundrum: What to Do When Business Falls Off
“It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.” – Homer (The Odyssey, ninth century B.C.) MN, who has recently taken over my role as head butt-kicker for a $90 million business, is — despite his best efforts to the contrary — starting to act more and more like me. He’s getting…
Read MoreGet Thin And Stay That Way By Ending Ritualistic Eating Patterns
To lose weight and stay thin, you must change the way you eat. Changing your eating pattern temporarily is easy. You go on a diet. But to stay thin, you’ve got to do more: You must change the way you think about eating. For many of us, eating is a pleasurable ritual performed more often…
Read MoreIn Your Business Dealings, Remember That “Fair” Is Not An Exact Point Where Two Parties Meet But A Range They Can Wander Within
When two people want to do business, both sides must agree to a set of terms within which they can work together fairly. That is easy to accept, but understand that “fairness” is not an exact point but a range of acceptable considerations. If you think of it otherwise — as something too precise —…
Read MoreBuy Into an Existing Franchise – Or Turn Your Business Into One
“How sweet an emotion is possession! What charm is inherent in ownership!” – David Grayson (Adventures in Contentment, 1907) It’s an interesting problem er opportunity. Investing in a franchise — as this person correctly guesses — isa very different ball of wax than owning your own business. Have you ever considered buying a…
Read MoreSpiritual Success Secrets: Law 2 – The Power of Karmic Freedom
“You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.” – Richard Bach (Running from Safety, 1994) In Chapter 3 of his book titled “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success,” Deepak Chopra argues that we are all free, all the time, to make our own choices.…
Read MoreWhy You Don’t Want Your Employee-Turnover Rate at Zero
“Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain Employment experts will sometimes tell you that the lower your employee turnover is, the stronger your company is. If you accept this claim, you are going to be attracted to all kinds of schemes that aim at making employees happy.…
Read MoreWhat Do You Do When a Friend Asks You for Money?
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” – Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics, fourth century B.C.) They say you shouldn’t mix business with either friendship or family. And they may be right. But I’ve done a lot of both and have mostly good things to say about it.…
Read MoreThree Steps To Making Your Direct-Mail Copy Super-Strong
I’ve been directly or indirectly responsible for more than a billion dollars’ worth of direct-mail copy over a span of more than 20 years. During that time, I’ve never stopped trying to find new and better ways to make the copy stronger. What follows is a simple but (for me, so far) extremely effective and…
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