An Ideal Business for First-Time Entrepreneurs
There is a website that is used by 8 million qualified and screened members from almost every country on the planet. They aren’t just browsing. They are entrepreneurs. And they consider the site to be an indispensable business tool. It’s a clearinghouse and meeting point for the import-export industry. And…
READ MOREFeeling Wealthy — Easier Than It Sounds
One of the tasks that is always on my to-do list: “Come up with some original new essay ideas for ETR.”
Not an easy job.
READ MOREThe Language Perfectionist: A Bad Spell
Long before the Internet, jokes, lists, fun facts, and the like were circulated on old-fashioned paper. This sort of material was wryly dubbed “photocopier folklore” by Alan Dundes, a scholar who specialized in the phenomenon and compiled his discoveries into a series of books. One such item I recall was…
READ MOREProfit Opportunity, Part 2: The “Smart” Play
Yesterday, I discussed the dramatic rise in the “smartphone” and tablet PC markets around the world. In the third quarter of last year, shipments of smartphones rose 95% to an estimated 81 million units. And tablet PC sales are expected to increase by 57% a year for the next four…
READ MOREProfit Opportunity, Part 1: Playing the Smartphone Craze
Every time I am out with my friends and take out my cell phone, they laugh at me. It’s not because I have an obnoxious ringtone or a funny plastic cover on it. It’s because of the phone itself. It’s old. In the 3 years I have had the phone,…
READ MOREThe Comedy and Tragedy of Spontaneity
My approach to life is to plan carefully, then relentlessly focus on execution. I don’t mean to sound stuffy, but to me impulsiveness is a sign of irresponsible behavior. That’s why those who know me best would lay 100-to-1 odds that I would never make a spur-of-the-moment decision to hop…
READ MOREJumpstarting Your New Life Part 2
When you start an info-publishing business — or any business, for that matter — there are many things you don’t know. And that includes plenty of things you don’t know you don’t know. Many new entrepreneurs even miss the “obvious” strategies that would propel their ventures forward. The speakers at…
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Andrew Lock was a recent immigrant to the United States (he and his wife brought only two suitcases with them) when he went to his first Internet marketing conference. He wasn’t an attendee. He was working at the back of the room as the AV guy. But out of the…
READ MOREThe Language Perfectionist: An Army of Ambiguities
Ambiguous sentences can be unintentionally amusing, though they do no favors for readers, who are likely to be miscued and confused. Here’s a new batch, all of which I spotted recently in major newspapers: “Huge budget shortfalls are prompting a handful of states to begin discussing a once unthinkable scenario:…
READ MOREWorld’s Least Expensive Investment Portfolio
In this week’s Insider, I’d like to try something a little different. I want to give you a second chance…
Let me explain.
READ MOREProfit Opportunity: The Next Global Growth Story
Yesterday, we talked about the huge demand for infrastructure in India and the opportunity this gives you to make triple-digit gains in the next 18 months. As a result of chronic underinvestment in infrastructure and 290 million people moving into its urban areas by 2030, India will be spending $1.5…
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