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Opportunity Knocks

If you believe that opportunity has never knocked on your door, you're wrong, it has. You had a pillow over your head. Opportunity isn't a once in a life time...

Question The Assumption

Business is full of assumptions. It's just the way it is, I assume. The term "bankers hours" came about because of the limited, unaccommodating hours they kept. Banks were open...

Every Entrepreneurial Success Starts With A Belief It Can Be Done

There is one common ingredient in every successful business venture, in every life changing invention and every extraordinary entrepreneurial endeavor: Every success started with a belief that it could be...

5 Ways An Entrepreneur Can Handle An Unsupportive Spouse

Being an entrepreneur is hard - the relentless questions, the insane demands, and the occasional hate mail. And I am not talking about your clients, I am talking about your...

Is It Worth Your Life?

What do you feel your life is worth (in dollars)? Millions? Billions? Everything? Now consider the work you have dedicated your life to. Consider how much you earn. Consider how...

The World's Most Unsuccessful Entrepreneur

He owns the biggest house. He has the nicest cars. He has all the material things you can imagine. He's earned it. His family doesn't know him. He's never there....

The Way To Sequence Pricing In Proposals

I am on a little bit of a pricing strategy kick this week. In addition to removing decimals and dollar signs, consider changing the sequence of your proposal to include...

A More Persuasive Way To Display Prices

Buyers have a negative association to dollar signs and decimals. Even if it is for a fraction of a second, $39.00 feels more negative to consumers than 39 does. That's...

The 8 Best Ways To Give Employee Recognition

Happy employees - motivated employees - energetic employees. For your business to be the best in the industry, its great employees that will make a difference. The first step is...

Hero Defined

As I walked the Pepperdine University campus before my keynote, I came upon a September 11th memorial.  Deena Burnett is the wife of alumnus Tom Burnett, one of the heroes...

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