Startup Skills: “Small one and two-man companies often get cocky and will talk back to customers. It’s a huge mistake. Your biggest critics are engaged in your company, and assuming they aren’t actually your competitors, they can often be turned into your most loyal customers… if you give them reason to believe in you.”
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Sydney Johnston: “It seems logical that a business so easily created ought to be easily successful. But it isn’t. I receive constant email from folks who’ve bought a $29.95 ebook or a $49.95 piece of software and can’t understand why they aren’t rich yet. This total misunderstanding results in massive pain, disillusion and bitterness. Because
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About.com: Explore your network: distant relatives, friends of the family, former bosses or professors, people you meet through professional associations or networking groups, or even online social networks. Who do you admire and respect? Who has already been a role model for you? Is there someone who has already been helpful to you on a
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Dan Sherman, always the idea man, shared his two newest business ideas yesterday: raising money for Republicans for a commission and starting a short run color printing service. The post about the printing service contains this extra gem: Xerox will give you a free color laser printer if you agree to purchase the toner from
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Starting It: “Have you ever noticed that vacuum cleaner companies and cutlery companies (as well as many other industries) often hire kids right out of school to sell their products? Why? Well, they know that even if the individual isn’t any good at sales, they will sell at least a couple of vacuum cleaners –
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Strategize: “Working Smart has a great post on how to create a template for your voicemail so that you can update your outgoing message every day. ” Though the voicemail template sounds more like that of a corporate drone, hopefully it’ll inspire you to create your own daily greeting. Here’s the template: Hi, you’ve reached
Dr. Jeffey Cornwall: “Certainly one can over analyze a business or a golf swing. But neither can completely take care of themselves. Even golfers with ‘natural swings’ have to focus on what they are doing. And even the best business opportunity requires careful implementation and management. They really both come down to one thing: execution”
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Don Boudreaux writing on Cafe Hayek: Almost every one of the goods and services that are routine in modern, commercial society is the result of a long series of mostly small, individual, creative efforts to improve an existing situation — to build a better mousetrap, to find materials that make a more comfortable mattress, to
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→ nature-technologies.com Nature Technologies International LLC produces a non-toxic biological alternative to pesticides and synthetic chemical fertilizers. They’re now offering the opportunity for you to become a regional Nature Technologies service center in your area. Each Center provides professional soil and plant products and services to the landscape, agriculture and retail market — a safe,
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Ida May Fuller, the first recepient of a retirement check from the Social Security Administration, received a total of $22,888.92 in benefits from 1940 until her death in 1975. Not bad for someone who only paid $24.75 in social security taxes during the three years she worked under the program. How’s that not a ponzi
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