What’s the No. 1 key ingredient to business success? Some might say sales. Others might say marketing, technology or access to capital.
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“Free Crab Tomorrow”
Joe’s Crab Shack offers free crab tomorrow. That’s because it’s never tomorrow. All we have is today. I’ve talked to thousands of distributors in this industry who will never get wealthy because they’re postponing success. Here are the three things that most people are doing to postpone success
Read MoreHasn’t Wall Street Done Enough? American Businesses Suffer Due to Lack of Lending
Today in an article on the Fox News, Small Business Center website there was a fascinating article titled, “Does Made in the U.S.A. Spell R.I.P?”
Read MoreIn the Eye of the Beholder
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch, author/ philosopher (1919-1999)
Read MoreIt’s Real. It’s How People Feel.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. « Vannevar Bush, American scientist (1890 – 1974)
Like many Americans, I have been watching the national news a lot lately. On CNN recently, there was an interview with Suze Orman,
personal finance expert. In this interview, she answered the question: Is the financial fear and panic occurring on Wall Street and throughout the nation counterproductive? Her answer, “It is not counterproductive, it’s real. It’s how people feel and the markets are made up of how people feel. They buy or they sell
A Room of Her own
“A woman must have money and a room of her own.” – VIRGINIA WOOLF
Now it’s time to get creative, economically speaking. When living inside a sliding economy, one where the media delivers more bad news with every passing day, it is impossible not to feel a responsibility to tighten up on spending.
So one day in the not-so-distant past, while I was driving home from work in my gas-guzzling SUV, I was challenged by an economic strategist on the radio. He explained that we care for our bodies through exercise, so why wouldn’t we do the same for our wallets. I decided