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An Unusual Opportunity to Participate in a Free 6-Week Business Bootcamp
My fellow online entrepreneur Danny Iny contacted me earlier this month about an unusual business idea. He told me he wanted to offer a 6-week business bootcamp to help 200 entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses. And he told me he was going to do it for free. At first I was skeptical about […]
Continue reading3 Types of Lies: The Government Wants You to Go Shopping
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” And nowhere is this truer than with government reports. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Labor reported 146,000 new jobs created in November. But is this actually good news? The government would like you to think so. They want you to see the number, […]
Continue readingKill Your Darlings (in Writing and Business)
Editing can be quite painful because it requires you to delete portions of your writing that you may particularly like — but may not be pertinent to making the sale or telling your story. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch said it this way in his 1916 publication “On the Art of Writing”: Whenever you feel an impulse […]
Continue readingHow Taxes Kill Business
I’ve got government on the brain since my corporate taxes are due January 15th. And, once again, Uncle Sam is digging deep into my pockets to take all he can get. Scratch that. It’s actually more like grabbing me by the ankles and shaking out every last nickel he possibly can, leaving me dizzy, disoriented, […]
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