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I’ve got friends who live near Nashville, TN. They talk about the music business and everybody dreams of writing a song or the lyrics of a hit single. You write one good song and before you know it, you can go out to the road and open your mail box and find what they call [...]

A friend of mine told me the story once about a man who for a short time literally lived on the five dollar bills and checks he received in the mail. Now he wasn’t a bum or anything. He had known the heights and the depths of the “professional network marketer lifestyle”… a kind of [...]

They say if you want to be successful online, you have to give away stuff for free. Is that really true? If you’re not careful, not charging for your stuff is a surefire way to bankrupt yourself. Today on my weekly talkcast called Stump Markus, I’m going to give you my take on the free [...]

As people are looking for any way possible to generate a significant income from home, they are looking to Online Trading as a home based business. This isn’t exactly new. In fact, people were selling these information courses before the internet had really “taken off” ten years ago. What’s changed in the last decade are [...]

If you’re in a major corporation and want to nip unjust criticisms in the bud, it’s wise to use Twitter. You can of course use other tools like Google Alerts. In fact, one CEO I know personally monitors Google Alerts for comments about his company Thomas Nelson Publishers and if they say anything negative, he [...]

I’ve already mentioned some ideas to help you sell more in a recession. Adrian Ling has a good post on Opportunities in Recession. He mentions a variety of opportunities that exist online and off line. You may agree with them, or may not. But one thing he suggests is worth building on … learning a [...]

Here’s more on the NON Credit Crisis. NFIB’s monthly member survey says there’s very negligible damage thus far. Other data indicate the economy’s in better shape than during a similar crunch in 2001. According to the NFIB’s survey, the No. 1 issue among small business owners is inflation. Of those surveyed, 18 percent said rising [...]

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The number of work at home call center agents continues to rise. The trick is how to manage them appropriately… for company profitability and to attract and keep the best agents. That’s no easy task. You can get lots of agents easily enough. You can keep things profitable easy enough. But doing the above while [...]

I just got done reading a well written, very “conspiratorial” sales letter for a new piece of software. It was for something under $20 but you’d have thought they were selling the original plates from the US Treasury so people could print their own money. After I was done reading the “you’ve got to scroll [...]