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Can You Make It Happen - 06/29/07 08:05 AM
"People mix up entrepreneurship with risk-taking... An entrepreneur is a risk-minimizer, an opportunity seeker."
- Peter Farrell
Do You Have What It Takes?
By Michael Masterson
Many ETR readers are entrepreneurial wannabes - stuck in jobs they hate and dreaming of having their own exciting businesses. According to best-selling business author Seth Godin, entrepreneurial wannabes come in a number of varieties:
"The middle manager who believes he can go out and make it on his own "The career-changer who is going to open a pet store because she loves dogs "The restaurant chef who is going to open up his own restaurant "The accountant leaving a … (0 comments)
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How Wealthy Are You Looking To Be - 06/27/07 06:23 AM
"Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewerpossibilities by the narrowness of their vision."
- V. S. Naipaul
Become Better at Your Niche by Learning From Pros in Other Areas
By Justin Ford
There are 33 real estate billionaires in the U.S. today. The one thing most have in common - besides 10-digit net worths - is that they've developed massive portfolios in more than one kind of real estate.
Quite a few of these entrepreneurs started with a few rentals or by flipping homes. But you … (1 comments)
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Consolidate Your Incoming Messages - 06/26/07 06:51 AM
"I must create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's."
- William Blake
How to Do the Impossible: Create a Paperless Life, Never Check Voice Mail Again, Never Return Another Phone Call
By Timothy Ferriss
Forget the paperless office - that's aiming too low.
Let's take a look at the bigger picture: a paperless life. While we're at it, let's also eliminate three other nuisances: answering the phone, checking voice mail, and returning phone calls.
Is this possible? It is. The key to finding means to accomplish the "impossible" is asking the right question: "How would you do ____ for a week if your life … (0 comments)
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Driving Traffic To Your Website - 06/21/07 06:05 AM
"The power of a website comes from the people using it, not the people making it."
- Chris Edwards
How to Bring the Right Customers to Your Website
By Paul Smithson
Whether you already have an Internet business or you're thinking of starting one, you should have one major thing on your mind: driving traffic to your website. Learning how to do this is crucial to your success. After all, if you don't have people browsing through your products or services, how can you sell them anything?
Let's say you give tap dancing lessons in Orlando, FL, and you've set up a website to help … (0 comments)
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The Art Of Deal Making - 06/21/07 05:59 AM
"People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line."
- Donald Trump
Dealmaking Empire Builders
By Robert Ringer
If you look at the great entrepreneurs of our era - Kirk Kerkorian, Donald Trump, and Rupert Murdoch, to name but a few - the one thing they all have in common is that they are great dealmakers. … (0 comments)
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Governement Money For Rehabbing - 06/19/07 12:21 PM
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
- George Bernard Shaw
Let the Government Pay You for a Change!
By Reggie Brooks
Politicians know that the best way to keep their jobs is by funneling government money into the communities they represent. That is how the government ends up with hundreds of different programs to distribute billions of dollars to us in the form of grants, low-interest loans, and subsidies. And that's where you can step up and reclaim some of your hard-earned tax dollars.
The government only gives that money to the people who know how to get it. You have to learn … (1 comments)
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What every agent should be doing - 06/12/07 05:56 AM
"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Abandoned Properties - One of the Best-Kept Money-Making Secrets in Real Estate
By Reggie Brooks
When I began my career as a real estate investor in 1985, I stumbled across a tremendous opportunity that most people still don't know about to this day. Yet it has given my family and me a lifestyle we never dared dream we'd have.
I'm talking about investing in abandoned properties - a highly lucrative, yet little-known, segment of the market.
Abandoned properties are just that - abandoned. No one lives or works there anymore. Weeds … (0 comments)
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Utilize the 9 P's of business startup - 06/11/07 05:56 AM
"It's almost like a management report card. By getting a valuation done on some periodic basis, it can give a business owner a sense of how much their business increased or decreased during some certain time period."
- Alex Kindler
The 9 P's of a Money-Making Business
By Michael Masterson
BB, the legendary copywriter and one of my biggest clients, is a constant articulator of powerful, business-building ideas. Recently, in a memo to his senior executives, he discussed the difficulty of starting and growing new businesses, and offered a brilliant synopsis of "what it takes to make (such) businesses work."
"You have heard about the Four … (0 comments)
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Change Is Good - 06/09/07 07:43 AM
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
- Robert C. Gallagher
Things Change
By Robert Ringer
Whenever you find yourself anxious or upset about a business or personal situation, it will be remarkably helpful to think about a reality of life that seems to escape people who are under stress: Things change!
This reality began to hit home with me in the late 70s, following a meeting with about a half-dozen of the top brass at Harper & Row Publishers (forerunner of today's Harper Collins). Harper was a mainstream, 150-year-old company at the time, and neck-and-neck with other publishing giants such as Simon … (0 comments)
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Motivational speakers - 06/04/07 06:07 PM
Anticipation of a large upcoming event has been the motivation for me to learn a new strategy to real estate. I am a member of the REIA of Macomb and we have been looking forward to the event of Kris Kirshner coming to speak on the topic of subject to lease options. Having mildly studied his course for the past months I was excited to talk to Kris about his program and applying it to the Michigan marketplace.
Since many of our homes in Michigan are overfinanced and in the foreclosure process, it goes to show that not just one tool in the box … (0 comments)
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Boom Your Business - 06/04/07 07:21 AM
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
How to Get Your Business to the "Next Level"
By Michael Masterson
This past April, 30 experienced businesspeople joined me in the Palm Beach Ritz-Carlton Hotel for five days of intensive business-building discussions. Although they had each achieved a great deal, all of their situations were different. Some were beginning new ventures. Many were growing modest-sized companies. And some had well-established $10 million to $25 million enterprises.
To make matters more challenging, their businesses ranged from professional services to publishing to … (0 comments)
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