How Often Should You Change Things?
You know how bad I think most small-business periodicals are. Fortune Small Business might be the worst. Staffed by a boatload of (I’m sure) very smart and capable (mostly) young women, it is full of feel-good stories and equal opportunity reporting. There is also an inexcusable level of innocence when…
READ MOREGood Manners Are Critical At Business-Related Social Functions
When you are attending a business dinner (or some other business-related social function) with your customers and colleagues, you have an opportunity to improve or degrade the opinion others have of you. Only a foolish person would ignore this fact. Here are a few recommendations, all based on very recent…
READ MORELiving Rich: Becoming A Collector
Last week (in Message #291), we talked about how important it is to reward yourself whenever you’ve taken a significant step toward your wealth-building goals. If you secure a new line of income, get a new account, get paid for a freelance consulting assignment, or even get a big raise…
READ MOREDon’t Betray Your Partner/Boss
What do you do when someone who works for you walks into your office and says, “I have something I want to tell you, but you must promise you wont tell your partner/boss?” If you agree to listen, you have made a serious mistake. You have betrayed the fundamental relationship…
READ MORELiving Rich: PS’s Story
On the subject of how much of your income you can realistically save, PS writes, “It’s not very hard to make $100,000 and save $50,000 a year. I’ve been saving half of my income above $50,000 and it’s really easy. This year, I’ll make around $75,000 and I’ve saved over…
READ MOREWhat To Do When Your Marketing Fails
Sooner or later, every business reaches a point at which it has a hard time marketing its product or service. The promotional and advertising campaigns that worked so well in the past work poorly or not at all. The first response of most entrepreneurs is to do what they’ve been…
READ MOREThe Best Way to Surpass Your Peers and Rise To The Top Of Any Business
What’s the best way to surpass your peers and outdo your competitors? Work harder than they do. If that sounds daunting, consider this: Most people dont work very hard. Some people spend their time doing as little as they possibly can. Most do stay busy, but they are not always…
READ MOREDear Early To Rise Reader
Are you in debt? Have you had enough of working hard to make money… just to find that your paycheck comes in one day and goes out the next to pay your mortgage, your car, your loans, your credit card bills? How much disposable income do you have left over…
READ MOREWhat Role Should Fun Play In Your Business?
I’ve been thinking about fun lately. (Like money, its something we never seem to get enough of.) If you read the business press, you know that fun — having it, creating it, and promoting it — has been one of the primary business concerns of young dot-com entrepreneurs. Some of…
READ MORETwo More Ways To Invest With Experience
How can you invest in something new if you follow the Golden Rule of investing only in things you know about? This is a fundamental wealth-building problem, a problem that I suggested two solutions to in the past: (1) that before you invest in a business, you get to know it…
READ MOREWhy You Should Read The Daily Reckoning
“Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest than to think and consider.” – Thomas Carlyle Instead of making the world smarter, the information revolution is making people dumber. Thats the argument Bill Bonner is making every day in his daily investment commentary,…
READ MORESpeak More Powerfully By Saying Less
If brevity is the soul of wit, taciturnity is the backbone of conversational power. How many times have you found yourself in a situation in which, not being entirely confident about the point you are making, you speak too long in supporting it? Each added statement sinks you deeper in…
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