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Forex trading with extra benefits  Trading in forex markets can be extremely risky. Especially if you have no idea what you are doing. And the truth is, most of the small players don't. So before you even consider playing in foreign exchange markets, be sure to educate yourself enough to know about the different types of trading (one mainly based on news, the other mainly based on technical analysis) and don't think you know enough without going deeply into the subject and learning about it all for months. Successful traders have learned Forex trading and financial markets for years and ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Actuate ? business intelligence with style Successful business owners, such as possibly you, are always looking for ways to improve their business. Topics like hiring the right staff, paying them their satisfactory wage, evolving together with the market or why not evolving ahead of the market, are always on their minds. Money & income are important as well, of course, but if other sides of your business aren’t working then the $$$ side is usually problematic as well.
Another thing your business can definitely take some good advantage of is some kind of Business Intelligence Solution. If you have... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (1) or add your own Max Gunther on planning ahead Long range plans, not yours, not anyone else’s, should be taken seriously. Long range plans NEED to have the flexibility to change or you should be ready to wipe them out completely. I personally feel long range plans are extremely difficult to make, too exact plans anyhow. Thus – if anyone asks me about plans, my most regular answer during the past 5 or 10 years has been – you mean something in the longer term than 3 hours? No idea. I can’t put myself to do such plans. Of course I know that I’m interested in learning about business and marketing. I’m doing that, most likely 3 more hours. But ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Max Gunther: ?All things come to him who waits? ? really? Max Gunther says that the old Chinese proverb „All things come to him who waits” can’t be taken too seriously. You shouldn’t believe it as it’s total nonsense. If you wait for your bad ventures to improve you will be very disappointed very often. And just to bring in a personal thought - have you ever achieved anything in your life by waiting instead of taking action?
I could write a lot of more here, but I think these couple of sentences really said it all.
... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Internet Entrepreneurs - PC Super Warehouse Working as an internet entrepreneur can be a very satisfying job. You are free to set your own hours and income-wise only the sky is the limit. But to enjoy your work, there are two requirements. Firstly, you need to like what you do and secondly, you need to have the right equipment for it. That’s where Super Warehouse comes to play – they offer Laptops, cameras, scanners and anything else you might need to do your job.
Super Warehouse offers you over 50 000 products by a wide range of different brands including but not limited to Ap... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Max Gunther: "When the ship starts to sink, don't pray. Jump." Let’s continue with Max Gunther’s book. One of the axioms he brought out is hope. He has a rather good saying about that – „When the ship starts to sink, don't pray. Jump.”. The words „starts to sink” are important here. You have to be ready to take the fact that half of what you do in your life will go wrong, maybe more than half. But this isn’t as terrible as it may sound – if something goes bad, just get out in a good time.
So if you make a bad decision that costs you money, the best idea is to jump out of the investment in order NOT to lose any more money. And admit it! Many people ha... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Truths of life ? based on The Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther I’m a keen supporter of the idea that one should not depend on emotions when making business decisions. I’m also a firm believer that life doesn’t neccessarily need to be difficult nor bad. It’s the way you want it to be. Life’s the way you make it to be.
I’m going to talk about a book I recently read – „The Zurich Axioms” by Max Gunther. Many of the things talked about there do contradict my current thoughts and views on life, but we need to keep our minds open towards everything. And I must say that I didn’t just pick up this books from scratch, it was suggested to me by a friend of mine... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Four-hour project? Why not. And the professor asks the auditorium filled with hundreds of eager business students „My dear young minds, future millionaires, billionairs and yes, when to think about it, most of you will definitely fail as well, what is the most important part of any business?”
And the fearful voices inside the crowd start to offer ideas, one more silent than the other. „I don’t hear you,” says the professor. „Great idea!” shouts a man with pink t-shirt from the last row. „That’s important too, but what makes the idea work?” the professor still wants to know.
After answers such as a great business p... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Don?t throw away money! Yes, I know, it sounds stupid, nobody throws his or her money away. At least not on purpose...or...ermm, actually they do, but nobody throws their money away if they win in a lottery (then they just waste it), nobody throws a hundred-dollar bill away if they find it on the street (they buy some beer). But there’s actually very many people who throw away good and simple opportunities to make some money.
In the internet business there’s a saying that take from whereever you can take and take as much as you can. And that’s usually what you should do. If someone offers you a job which might ta... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Need a fast loan? Get one from Payday One! New companies offering you fast cash are coming to the market pretty much every day. Most of them crash and burn, others manage to do some superb marketing and get the most money out of their clients, ending the misery of their customers via bankcruptcy of either the customer or the company. Payday One does not belong to that group.
Payday One is a lending company based and licensed in the United States. Many of the companies I mentioned above are offshore payday lending companies. PayDay One offers you State Licensed Payday Loans<... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Self-help Success books III: Your Path to billions? Reading and learning is great – it makes you smarter and gives you new ideas, often you can find the ideas not in the books themselves but from between the lines when two wires just happen to get together in your brain. But like I mentioned in my previous post, in my case (I bet in case of many of you as well) reading all those books changed something, and the change wasn’t really positive.
While I still believed that I believed in the same things that I believed in during my high school years, I actually didn’t. My motto, my main belief, the me, used to be the guy who believed in EIP. Who ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Self-help Success books II: Your Path to billions? In my last post I mentioned you two types of business books. Both of them have their benefits, both of them have their ugly sides.
And there come me. I have always had different opinions about things than most my mates. I have always believed in the possibility of the impossible things. Impossible according to the general audience I mean. During high school I thought I could sing and have my own band. Well, actually I couldn’t. Once someone invited me to submit my music to one artist site and it was time to admit the truth – yes, I did post myself somewhere as a musician but no, I’m not a ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Self-help Success books: Your Path to billions? Internationally known business men and women have written a number of books on how to become successful. Books by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the Rich Dad and Poor Dad) have been read by many, loved by many as well as hated. Hated mostly for the fact that they don’t contain any specific know-how most of us would love to see. General information – that’s all what they are offering, nothing useful, just a combination of their personal opinions about something they think now that they are rich. Or is it?
Another wave of books on how to become rich are extremely specific know-h... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Emergency Cash for a trip to Timbuktu Timbuktu, it’s a beautiful city in Tombouctou region in Mali (West Africa). It was an intellectual and spiritual capital and centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Imagine you really want to see the place whose name really sounds kind of like it was made up. You need cash, fast. That’s where you might start to consider taking some personal loans.
Think CASH! Or actually ThinkCash.com, company that offers you short term loans in amounts from $250 to $2500. That might just be my personal estimation, but I ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Your powerful marketing message ? what is it? In simple words, it is the longer version of your USP (Unique Selling Proposal). Your marketing message is used to grab the potential customer’s attention. Tell them what’s unique about you or what problem(s) you can solve for them. I don’t know you, thus I don’t trust you, why should I? That’s what you should explain – why should the prospect trust you? Why should they choose you instead of anyone else?
Should you speak to people’s brain or emotions? I think you know that the answer is emotions. People don’t buy what they need but what they WANT.
When you start putting together your m... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own USP ? your unique selling proposal Like I mentioned in my last post, you need to be unique and so does your selling proposal. And this selling proposal is your promise to your existing or potential customer. Make sure it’s specific and make sure you can fulfill your promise.
How to choose you USP? In every market there is at least some needs that haven’t yet been satisfied. If you can find those gaps and then base your USP on these needs, you have great potential to become successful. While we can’t always call such needs "a problem", businesses that solve problems that haven’t been solved by others, are he ones that end up... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own To be unique or to be best, that is the question We all want to be best at something, yet to be best is often the most difficult thing to achieve. And by the end of the day, that’s not what matters at all.
Instead of striving for the best, strive to be unique. In order to be heard and noticed, you need to do something differently, you don’t want to be a ‘me too’ business as at least in case of small businesses you can’t survive this way. You don’t have any additional value compared to the big guys.
What people are interested in is something unique, something new that they can be part of. So do something differently, give extra benefi... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own The Money Comparison Experts that help with your decisions Money. That’s something most of us wish we would have, yet only a few can actually say they have it. Most of us require direct or indirect loans to keep us happy and money.co.uk is the portal that helps you make the right choices when you need to apply for credit cards or mortgages.
The Money Comparison Experts aim to save you money and by doing that, actually help make you money. They offer you comparison tables on a number of different money related services – credit cards, mortgages, different kind of insurances, investing, banking, saving. As an ex... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Hire people with know-why not know-how Looking for great people with the right know-how can be a very tedious task. Often you might find yourself in a situation where you have the great person without the know-how or the person with the know-how but not the “people-skill” (or simply put, a proper asshole you don’t really want to know…or just a boring slug). Who should you choose?
My answer is simple – skills can be taught, but they way a person looks at life, the way a person works, the way they are is a lot more difficult to change in case of ANYBODY because often they are not even interested in it.
So go for people with the... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Quality product comes before a brand While the thought of a brand should or at least could be in your mind already from the beginning, you don’t need or even shouldn’t start with creating a brand, rather start with creating a quality product.
One good example of it is Starbucks, they just started educating their customers on how to appreciate better, stronger coffee. They didn’t think about branding, now see where they are.
You need to start with building your business. You can not create a brand before that. By building your business you are building your brand, not vice versa.
People don’t really care about brands, a... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Learn to take control of your mind Do you remember the last time when you really needed to do something, but you just couldn’t because you were constantly thinking of something else? Remember? I do. There are ways to fix that. And no, I’m not going to talk about the waves in the air or about some other mambo-jambo. And I’m not even going to use the word autosuggestion (The term autosuggestion is used for positive or negative physical symptoms explained by the thoughts and beliefs of a person.), even though it is part of the game. I’ll try to do it in a bit more humane & practical manner.
Theory: In order to do something, you... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Day-planning how & why Some of us plan
some of us don't
some of us succeed
and some of us won't.
(.anon [me-no-poet])
Well, no, planning and succeeding definitely don't have a IF/THEN relationship, at least not necessarily. But depending on who you are, how you function, why you function, what's your environment like, what's your work like, planning or no planning can make a huge difference.
I don't have an office, neither do I need one. I can usually get everything done at home or in some cafeteria with wireless internet. I have pretty flexible schedule as well as I can pretty much decide daily ba... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own All eggs in one basket? We have all heard the saying "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" but how many of us actually act on that saying?
Without a doubt it's a smart idea not to depend on one certain thing too much. Like me an my online magazine - I got steady and pretty nice traffic from Google & Google News. In June they changed something in their algorithm and I my online magazine lost about 90% of its traffic. Not great, is it? Of course I blame Google. It's always easier to blame others, especially if it's such a big giant. But the truth is I'm myself to blame here.
As a business owner it's always goo... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Believe in yourself - and no, it's not lame Without a doubt I have talked about this topic, directly or indirectly, before. Most likely the idea has been on those pages a lot. But that's because it's important. It IS part of the business. It DOES influence whether you will be successful or not.
How do you create self-confidence? There's no one possibility but the possibilities are endless. And that's only great. Success all by itself gives you self-confidence. Success in what? It doesn't matter! Success in life! Success in small details! Success in one part of your life gives you confidence about achieving success in another part of ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Sponsored Post: Outsource your work and get done more Outsourcing has become more and more popular among successful businesses because it helps you to get more done and you don't have to worry about finding the people to work for you yourself.
I'm myself more of a self-doer and I can honestly say that this has, in big part, slowed down the growth in all of my projects. The reason being that I try to be the mother, the father and the baby all at once. And if you're doing all yourself, you can't really commit 100% to anything, thus all parts of your work suffer. But if you leave some things to companies with the know-how you might not have or d... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Do you know what your advantages are? Knowing the advantages will get you ahead, you knew that, right? Whatever your company is about, whatever your products do, usually there are at least something that your product does better than your competitors.
Yesterday I needed some glue to fix a tiny piece of by boots. I went to the shop and there was a variety of super glues available. And to my surprise the price differences were huge. The 3g Super Glue cost 10x less than Super Attack. And as far as I have understood they do pretty much the same thing, no big difference in the quality of the glue itself except for the brand. So of c... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own The Secret? There is NO secret I think many of you have heard about or seen the movie The Secret. I agree that there's a few good points in it, but overally...huh, oh well. Here's what I have to say about it -
The Secret - there is no secret. There's only one main thing you should think about. Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe you can do something? The belief is important. That's true without a question. But it's not about the law of attraction (if you believe in such things), it's not about any waves going through the thin air. It's something a lot more reasonable and more easily understandable.
IF you beli... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Thoughts on motivation, negative influences and ... Criticism is something that often disturbs us the most. In some cases we could also call it negative influences. People, who don’t believe in you, people who say you will never get anywhere. Get over it. Don’t pay attention to them. Rather, if someone is very negative towards your ideas, use it to motivate you. And rather look company from more positive people.
Think of what you want to become not what you are nor what you don’t want to become. The more you think of what you don’t want to become or what situation you definitely don’t like, the more chance there is of becoming like this. It... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own The River & Stephen King ? value points Often, different spots in the same business have different values. Eg take a river – it’s always the same river, but the value varies in different locations, locations like ford, bridges, and nice beaches. Or take producing books – the publishing agency without Stephen King is not that good. Stephen King is important, not definitely the publishing agency.
Every business consists of a number of people – leaders, employees, why not consultants and clients. They all play a different role in your organization. Everyone are important, but how the money flows is totally different story. How much... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Change? Huh! The funny thing about change is that it’s our greatest ally for accomplishment, still most of us resist change. Some of us are explicitly running away from change. When you have been doing something the same way for days, months, years, decades and then feel like doing something completely different, then at first it looks like a good idea. But then you start thinking about it. It’s a 180 degrees different life you are thinking about. And that scares the hell out of you. That’s the moment you’re actually afraid of – the actual moment of making the change. Everything you’ve done this way so far... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Advertising with style? We all have seen very stylish and great looking ads, ads that are interesting to watch and that win awards. But do they sell? Do they make you remember the product they are promoting or do you remember the great ad but you don’t remember for what it was? I have really seen a lot of great ads but when I’m telling about them to someone, I seldom can remember what the ad actually promoted. That’s often the problem with stylish ads. Stylish & great looking ads do NOT equal most selling ads, these are two totally different things. You might notice the fancy ad more, but does it actually make you wa... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Doubble-up on your money, not enough? When you think of doubling up your money then it doesn’t really sound like anything special, right?
Especially if you consider you have something like 5000 EUROs (or dollars for that matter). Let’s say you have 5000 and you are capable of turning it into 10 000 in a month. Generally speaking, the 100% growth is great here, but it didn’t make you that much richer, did it?
It’s the same with smaller sums, well, especially with smaller sums.. Eg. Take 1000 dollars. You turn it into 2000, but so what? If you’re after some serious money, it doesn’t often even make sense to spend tim... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Selling something that doesn?t exist (yet) Entrepreneurs spend days, weeks, months in order to come up with new products which, very often, might not even sell. But what if you could see its selling power before you create the product?
This would mean you don’t spend the time nor money to create products or services that won’t sell. In a very broad view, it might look like I’m suggesting you to become a scam artist, but just think about it. You are not selling air. You are actually selling a product which you don’t have yet. But if you see the product would actually sell, you make it happen, you create the product.
Ho... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Failures are good as long as... Failures are good. Mistakes you have made, bad decisions, failures are there to teach you something, teach you what does not work, what you should not do in the future. And if you really do learn from your mistakes, then how the hell can they be bad, they gave you a lesson and you learned from them. And learning is always good.
While at first, after making a mistake, depending on what it was, you might feel pretty down, but think of it this way – how does that help you? Yes, you might have done something very wrong, but usually you can’t change what you have already done, you can, h... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Keep the consumer attached Before making the first purchase, the consumer has the power, but when making the second buy, the company has the power – because the buyer is involved with the product he bought from the company and now needs to buy add-ons from the same company. Eg phone companies – you buy internet, but now you also need to add phone, digital TV etc via the same company. Be sure to remember it and use the same idea to attach your customers to you.... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Keeping your goals in mind I must warn you, what follows, was totally unacceptable for me for years. Mainly for one reason, I didn’t understand why. It’s writing down your goals with specific deadlines, writing down your goals like you have already achieved it all. And then rewriting them twice a day, or even if not rewriting them then at least reading them again twice a day with thought.
Why? You’re a 9-5 worker or you’re not doing very well. It’s very hard to imagine and actually start believing that you can earn a million dollars a year. It is, I know. So somehow you need to put that thought to your unconsciousne... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own What if you were your client? This is another good WHAT IF questions to ask from yourself. You have a business, you have ideas how to make your business successful, you have your own problems, you have your clients to worry about. But forget about it all for a moment.
Put yoursel in your client’s shoes. Imagine you’re your client who needs your service, productt or anything else. Only now you will start to see what problems your clients have or may have with your service or product. Only now you can see what you’d need more, what you’d need changing, what you’d need improved. What you would need to make your life... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own What if you only had a year to live? Imagine you only have one year to live. Each of us would act differently on this event. Most likely the first day or two we would be sort of depressed and spend the time thinking. But what follows is important...
It doesn’t matter whether it’s one week, one month or one year, each of us would make changes to our lives one way or another. But one week or one month would be a bit too short time to even think about money and business, thus our chosen time frame is one year.
We would want to do things, things we haven’t done before, do things differently, more, with other people or in other... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Your job is people Get your employees talk about the company they are working with – your company. Now this is already a thought on marketing but I thought I’d bring it out here as well. And note – I deliberately said “working with” not “working for”. Make your own conclusions. If your employees don’t talk about you, why would your customers/clients/readers talk about you? So go ahead and give your employees something to talk about, something great, something interesting, something weird, something unusual, give them something unusual to talk about your company.
As a leader, your job is people – period. Hire... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Business mindset Firstly, I think both you and I are tired of people saying you need think right, you need to be positive, you need to believe in things, blah blah blah. Always the same old story. Why can’t anyone tell you something worthwhile? Something you could actually use? Well, until a short time ago I felt the same. Not anymore. Because I wanted to figure out why are many successful people saying that. Often, they say that you need to believe and so on, but they don’t say why. But the why part here is the most important one for us to start thinking differently.
The easiest way to put it – If you thi... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Life, work and everything else Many of you have noticed my recent inactivity in posting. Not to worry, this blog isn't dead, neither is going to be dead and it's not even the problem of not having enough to write about. There is, there's lots of ideas, knowledge and advice to be shared. The reason for my recent inactivity is somewhat different.
I write on the same days when I work. And I work on my own schedule which means that sometimes I might work 18 hours a day, but then again, sometimes I might not work for a week. Thus the inactivity sometimes. And you can usually track my 18-hour days when you see 4 posts per day.... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own The game of probabilities While this is mainly a business blog, I discovered one fine post from my old blog about investing and I thought I'd share it with you. At the time of publishing this post I felt it might be good idea to talk about the game of probabilities and stock markets (well, I still do). I have no intention to dive deep into this topic. However, I think it would be interesting to look at the market as a game of probabilities. Good poker players use the probability theory all the time. They know what is the % probability that one or another starting hand has won in the past, they know the probablilty of m... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own What about fresh perspective? What’s the highly unusual way you’d never expect anyone to advertise something with? Never stop looking for a fresh a perspective. To open up your creativity you need to start asking the right questions. Good question is a question for which you don’t know an answer for, where you need to be creative and come up with new, not known, ideas. When you ask the right kind of question, it triggers curiosity. “How do birds fly?”, “How much does a house weigh?”, ”How many columns of people walking into water might it require to stop China’s increasing birth rate?”
When you were young you were extre... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Feeding the journalists I’m usually working in cafeterias. Why? Well, like I have mentioned in my previous posts, that’s where I feel I’m most motivated to work and have the least distractions. Today, after registering in a driving school (yes, have postponed it for years, enough is enough), I went to a cafeteria again (well, I’m still here) and a journalist approached me.
It turned out he was writing an article to a local business newspaper about people working in cafeterias (not as employees but people using the cafeterias as their office), about what they are doing there, about how the workers of the pubs, bars... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own Hire the right people I would say there’s 4 phases in everyone’s life. And more, I would say there’s 4 phases in all areas of everyone’s lives. The first is knowing everything – this is where you’re really stupid and you think you know everything. The second is knowing nothing. That’s when you have realized there’s really a lot to know about and you really don’t know anything. And that’s a good thing because this makes you learn. The third one is learning, the pursuit of knowledge. And the fourth one is…for a lack of better word for it, it’s identification. That’s where you really know about a subject but you also ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own (Why) sharing your know-how does not hurt you It’s not uncommon that when someone learns about something new, he or she is not willing to share his or her knowledge. If everyone knew about it and acted on it, it would be too common knowledge, strategy or whatever else to actually work anymore. And you wouldn’t have an edge anymore. Because now everyone knows about it and everyone uses the knowledge.
Or a company is not willing to say how it does things. Being afraid that they will be copied and this copycat starts to hurt you. Taking away your advantage.
There are exceptions of course, but I would say that these worries are ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own What can you learn from movies? I bet you’ve seen some movie where the guy playing the main role gets into some serious trouble. Now to get out of it he makes a phone call to everyone involved, he calls them all to invite them to the same place at the same time ... on different reasons course. And then the series of events start rolling open. Usually it has been greatly done, great cinema I would say.
But what can you learn from it? For one thing, do your homework and learn to know the people involved. Or people who are not yet involved but who could help you. People are predictable, but only if you know them and ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own What problems does your product solve? Many of us already have products that we want to market. When it’s usual that you find a problem and then create a product to solve this problem, you could easily do it the other way around as well.
Imagine you have a product but you’re not sure yet how to promote it. What’s different about your product? Why is it good? What facts can we use to promote it? What problems does your product solve? Lets take an online magazine, we could use one of my own publications – The Cheers magazine (thecheers.org). It’s a volunteer based magazine with basically no foc... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own How would you solve a problem if money was no obstacle? We often tend to tell ourselves that „if only we had” that much money or possibilities, oh then we could own the world and do the things the way we want to. Well, sometimes money is not an obstacle, even if you don’t have it, your mind is.
I’m sure you have some sort of defined problem to take from the back of your head when reading it. Or if you don’t, think of some. Imagine how you would solve it if you had all the resources you’d ever need, all the money, unlimited amounts of money to use. How would you solve your problem then?
[here’s supposed to be at least one empty A4 paper for y... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own What can we learn from con artists Marketing your new ventures might be a difficult task. But in order to make something successful you need to find all the possible ways of getting the most of your efforts. That's where some lessons from con artists might come handy.
I was just watching a documentary about a swedish...I think he was swedish, con artist...Richard smth. He was pretty much able to do anything - sell fake information to Syrian embassy, pretend to be an airplane pilot with engine problems causing an evacuation of an oil platform or just getting people's personal data using just a phone. Or to make a phone call, ... read more If you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own |
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