How to Live as Well as a Billionaire
When you think about the rich — the really rich — you may find yourself marveling at their… well, their money. Take Bill Gates. If you think $10 million is a fortune, consider this: He has 5,000 of them. If he put his money in $1,000 bills, he’d have 50…
READ MORERiding the Trend Wave
Early to Riser Mark Fitzpatrick sent me an e-mail with some questions about Central American real estate. He has owned some ocean-view property in Nicaragua’s Brito foothills for about six years. (It sounds like it’s near the development I have an interest in, Rancho Santana.)
READ MOREThe Language Perfectionist: A Chrestomathy of Misuses
Whenever I encounter an interesting linguistic error, I toss it into a folder. When the collection becomes large enough — which doesn’t take long — I have the raw material for a column like this one.
Review the following mistakes, and you’ll avoid committing them.
- “We’re in the halcyon days of smartphone growth, and it won’t last forever.” READ MORE
What “Type” of Investor Are You?
In the world of pop psychology, people are often divided into Type A and Type B personalities. An oversimplification, of course. Still, your “type” label says a lot about your approach to life. And guess what? It also says a lot about the way you approach investing. Type A personalities…
READ MORESometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own
“You’re crazy! Why would you schedule meetings that early in the morning?” Ted asked. “You’re the president of the company… Why don’t you make it easy on yourself?”
Ted’s reaction was not unusual when I mentioned to colleagues that I had a standing phone meeting with my top copywriter/marketing strategist at 7:30 a.m. every day, Monday through Friday. The two of us had those conversations for about three years straight.
READ MORELeveraging Social Media for Leads, Sales, and More!
Although many marketers still don’t understand how to take advantage of social media, I’m here to tell you that it’s a crucial strategy.
It’s a key element of my marketing plans. And it deserves a lot of credit for the six figures in revenue that my consulting business was bringing in — only 10 months after I got started.
READ MOREHow to Double Any Company’s Revenues in 12 Months
Pretentious headline, right? A little “hypey,” no? Actually, no. Not at all. See, all you have to do to double your revenues is… (1) Bring in more new customers… (2) Compel customers to come back to you more often…
READ MOREThe Best Way to Make Money
Can you imagine turning a few hundred bucks into $900 in just three days? Or turning $360 into $720 in just seven days? Fantasy? Hardly. Some investors have found a way to book triple-digit gains without spending hours in front of a computer screen. Today, I’m going to show you…
READ MOREHow to Make Difficult Business Challenges Easier
My friend Bernard opened a furniture shop shortly after he immigrated to Boca Raton, Florida from Manchester, England in the early 1980s. That’s when I met him. I was shopping for an armoire for our bedroom. Most of the nice ones I’d seen were priced above $500. He had a half dozen of the same quality for only $195. I asked him how he was able to do it. With a twinkle in his eye, he said, “It’s not that my prices are good. It’s the other prices that are bad.”
READ MOREFuel Your Business Growth With the Power of Thought
It’s no big secret that I’ve coached more “up-and-comer” Internet entrepreneurs to guru status than anyone else. Heck, that’s why I’m often referred to as “the guru to the gurus.” So it’s no big surprise that I’m often asked… What single trait separates the winners from the losers? My answer:…
READ MOREThe Language Perfectionist: Unintended Double Meanings
Not long ago, an editor e-mailed a document to me, but it somehow went astray. When I told her that it hadn’t arrived, she responded with the words: “I resent it.” I wrote back, jokingly, “What do you resent?”
This is a case of a linguistic ambiguity. Because English is filled with double meanings and puns, such confusions can easily occur. The results can be amusing or tragic — or both.
Here are some classic ambiguous headlines, all alleged to be genuine mistakes. (The first became the title of a book that immortalized such errors.)
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