Career Development
You Can Increase Your Profits Without Raising Your Prices (Here's How...)
September 18, 2014









Decide If You NEED To Read This Article (Take A Quick Quiz!): This article features my Layman's Business Variable Costs Control Systems Awareness Quiz™ below. If you answer NO to even ONE of its seventeen (17) questions, there is a good chance the information contained in this article can help you. Layman's Business Variable Costs […]







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Career Development
To Perpetually Achieve Noteworthy Success, You May Need To Be Moderate In Your Humility
September 17, 2014









I once read the following quote in a magazine, and it really hit home with me: “In all things, apply moderation - including moderation” - Anon There is, in some societies, this issue of “humility" and how important it is for a person not to appear “proud” or “arrogant”. I believe it is sometimes taken […]







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Entrepreneurship
You Need to Know Your REAL Friends - Accepting Help Indiscriminately Can get you Exploited
September 16, 2014









When you first begin your business, you will likely be often short on cash. Those periods might force you to have to depend on others. If you accept unsolicited offers of help from just about anyone who makes them, you can set yourself up to be ripped-off or exploited causing you major suffering/setbacks. Read this […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 159: 5 Key Reasons Competent Experts Struggle to Make Profits!
September 15, 2014









Many competent experts struggle to find/win clients. To make matters worse - in serving few clients they win - these experts often fail to demand adequate remuneration! I used to be like that ...years ago...but NOT anymore. I used my suffering to drive myself to find a PERMANENT SOLUTION...which is what I now share below. […]







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Entrepreneurship
How to Avoid Wasting Money You Spend On Adverts
September 13, 2014









I sent huge amounts of my working capital down "newspaper advertising drainpipes", when I first started out, because I did not have a proper understanding of the important considerations for deciding on how and where to place my ads. My thinking about advertisements, and how to use them to attract business for myself was terribly […]







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Career Development
Defeat Traitors Using Compassion (Hint: Welcome a Judas into Your Life!)
September 12, 2014









FACT: You can be a genius and still fail due to a "close friend's" betrayal. This week, I'm teaching my kids about this. "Et tu Brutus?!" Caesar's famous exclamation is one of the classic examples of how great people responded to discovery of acts of betrayal by those closest to them. In my personal opinion, […]







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Career Development
To Succeed More, You Need a Real World Understanding of the Meaning of Intelligence
September 11, 2014









We often hear (or read) this word - "intelligence" - being used in different situations by different people e.g an intelligent "writer", intelligent "student", intelligent "speaker", intelligent "artist", PLUS on a less approving note, an intelligent THIEF ! 🙂 In this article, I advocate the adoption of what I consider ONE all embracing,and real-world relevant […]







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Entrepreneurship
Email to a Farm CEO About Powerful Reasons For Using a Blog
September 10, 2014









Today I sent an email message to a new Farm CEO client, who'd purchased my Monthly Poultry Farm Manager app. The email was however NOT about the app or his farm. Instead it was about a blog I discovered he created in 2012, then later abandoned, which I wanted him to know could be VERY […]







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Entrepreneurship
Get the Excel-VB driven Cash Inflow and Outflow Tracker app(Featuring Screenshot Images & Video Demonstration)
September 9, 2014









In yesterday's issue of my newsletter, I mentioned that I would publish a blog featuring my Excel-VB driven Cash Inflow and Outflow Tracker (BCCT) app: THIS is IT. I built the BCCT app within 48 hours, in late 2007 during a dark period following a major setback. From late September through November that year, I […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 158: To Achieve Sustainable Selling Success, NEVER Stop Marketing!
September 8, 2014









In late 2007, I had a setback when I broke a fundamental rule which I've summed up as: "Never stop marketing. Not even when business is so good that you’re over booked!” Ignoring this is often what causes the feast-famine cycle many people pass through! In this issue of my newsletter, I use a true […]







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