It's What You Do With What Happens

I have come to believe that the events we experience as entrepreneurs are the same for us all. The founders of Google and the founder of Spanx, experienced the same...

Make New Rules

Google changed the search engine rules established by Yahoo, MSN and AOL (remember them?) from tons of news and ads on a search page, to a simple box. Then Google...

Place What You Want To Sell On The Right

The left side of the human brain performs, among other things, story telling. Not just story telling to others, but story telling to ourselves. When you look at that pretty...

The Danger Of Quoting Price Ranges

In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz explains how quoting price ranges set both the vendor and the client up for disappointment. Instead of quoting price ranges, quote...

Know More, No More

I don't care how many books you have read (I can suggest a couple, if you like) or how much business experience you have - there is always more to...

Twist & Turn Your Ideas

You're an entrepreneur. You're a relentless fountain of ideas. Ideas are good. But it is the great ideas that you need. Instead of yet another good idea, take an existing...

A Lesson From Wild Life

Any life, no matter how big or how small, will defend itself. Fighting a bear is ridiculously dangerous. But so is fighting a raccoon. If the animal is injured, it...

You Need An Enemy

Walmart has an enemy - inflated prices. Nirvana has (had) an enemy - hair bands. Google has an enemy - wasted search time. To build your following, you must have...

It's Not Trivial To Your Customers

I was intending to share this card (picture below) as an example of exemplary customer service. But I can't My name was messed up, and I am (mildly) pissed. I...

Stop Doing $10/Hour Work

The success of your company is not determined by what you do, as much as it is by what you don't do. You are the entrepreneur. You have the vision....

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