Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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Alicia Shaffer, Frank Dilullio, Brad Deal, Maureen Kelly: Your Map To Finding Hidden Millions
Getting Started:
1. Pay attention to your everyday life to spot the ideas.
Making Mistakes:
1. Ineffective marketing.
2. Expanding too quickly.
First Step to Get Businnes Off the Ground
1. Web Site
2. Discounts
3. Samples
Todd Davis: The Outrageous Million Dollar Pitch
1. Be disruptive.
2. Do what you should, not what you can.
3. Nice guys don’t always finish last.
4. Stir up their passion.
Gloria Mayfield: Millionaire Secrets
1. Become a people magnet.
2. Have short-term, clear, strategic goals backed by big thinking.
3. Create a powerful circle of influence.
4. Work the numbers.
5. Study hard to become skill-based.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

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Nely Galan, Marilu Henner, Nadia Comaneci, Omarosa: Adapt and Make Milions
1. Approach each day as if you know nothing at all.
2. Figure out what you bring to the table.
3. Imagine your competitor is out to destroy you.

Jason Arasheben: Write Your Rulebook to Millions
1. Follow your gut.
2. Think big.
3. Do whatever it takes to get in the door.
4. Adapt to your customer.

Michael Kopko: Make Your Millions Fast
1. Your idea is worth a penny.
2. Be offensive.
3. You manage things. You lead people.
5. Invent the parachute after you jump.

David Hyde Pierce: Adapt and Make Millions
1. You have to find success in your failures.
2. Sometimes you have to leap before you look.

Sam Silverstein: Millionaire Secrets
1. Don’t make or accept excuses.
2. Think and plan strategically. Do the right things consistently.
3. Be patient but not complacent.
4. Lose your fear of failure and focus on success.

Friday, February 8, 2008

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Matthew McConaughey: Seize Your Million Dollar Moment
Book: “The Greatest Salesman in the World”
The book preaches not waiting another day to follow your passion.
Approaches For Life:
1. There is no tomorrow
2. Have no unfinished business
3. Get your hands dirty in life

Stephan Pastis: Take Your First Step To Millions
1. Find a mentor (But watch the stalking).
2. Get book smart.
3. One man’s success is another man’s education.
4. Don’t jump ship until the water’s right.

Tyler Dikman: Make Your Millions Fast
1. Under-promise and over-deliver.
2. Get a mentor. Be the kid they wish they had.
3. Having too much business can be a bad thing. Scale you self properly
4. Adapt to your clients. People do business with their friends.
5. Ideas don’t usually make you successful. Execution does.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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GO FROM ZERO TO MILLIONS

John Assaraf: Entrepreneur and Motivational Speaker, Laura Rowley: Yahoo! Finance Columnist
Kalie Warren: Founder, Rent-A-Husband

Business Myths: It takes money to make money.
It always starts with passion.
Focus on sales.
Build good money habits.

Dawn Barnes: Founder, Dawn Barnes Karate Kids
Business Myths: You need experience to make millions.
Fake it ‘til you make it.
Focus on the customer.
Hire experienced people.

Cameron Johnson: Auther, “You Call The Shots”
Business Myths: Making millions takes a long time.
Put yourself out there.
Write down your goals.
Use the Internet – emails.

Janet Attwood: Millionaire Secrets
Push the passion button.
Follow the breadcrumbs.
Write your 100th birthday speech.
Stop stepping on your own hose.
You be you.

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Joy Behar: Make Millions Your Way
There’s no way to say the wrong thing.
Don’t do what’s expected.
Embrace your own failure.
Jealousy can be useful.

Troy: How to Raise A Future Millionaire
Myths
A college education os the key to business success.
A job with a good corp. will secure your child’s finacial future.
Children shouldn’t have to worry about when there young.

Get out of your kid’s way.
You don’t have to be a millionaire.
Identify your child’s business talents.
Light the learn-to-earn fire.
Start the start-up.

Dani Johnson: Millionaire Secrets
Prepare for a marathon, not a sprint.
Weigh your ego with your bank account.
Prosper where you’re planted.
The marketplace pays for value.
Create results.

Angie and David Porter: Step-by-Step to Millions
Build a prototype.
Get a patent attorney.
Come up with the right name.
Find manufactures. Hone in on the right market.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

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Phoebe Cates: Movie Star Turns Entrepreneur
7 Steps to Millions
Step 1: Big Idea
Dream Journal – Cutting out pictures, drawing out, write down ideas
Step 2: Dealing with naysayers
Step 3: Immerse yourself in the business.
Step 4: Financing the idea.
Put it on the line.
Step 5: The store’s name.
Step 6: Getting the customers.
Know your customers and open at the times they need your product.
Step 7: Location, Location, Location.

Beth Horn and Valerie Wauagman: Gladiator Mindset to Millions
Set seemingly unrealistic goals and write them down.
Write values, motivational quotes.
Plan your attack and attack your plan. Charge!
Adapt to what’s given to you.
Don’t take no for an answer. Why not me.
Failure can be a good thing.
You have to fail to rise above.
Confident in your own abilities.

Larry Winget: Millionaire Secrets
Clearly define your expectations in advance.
Passion, love, excitement can be your enemies.
Study, Study, Study. Read books and look at competition.
Don’t forget your obligations.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Be ok when it doesn’t work and try the next idea.

Kristen Haglund: Miss America’s Winning Secrets
Be yourself. Know who you are.
Think outside of the box.

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Mark Ecko: I’m Outta Here!
Go for it now while you have a parachute of youth.
Find you passion and learn around that.
Don’t take no for an answer.
Pursue your dreams.
Gotta have passion in what your doing.

Matt Friedman and Adam Scott: Hidden Millions
Keep getting turned away at banks for loans.
Went to family members to borrow money.

Jess Weiner: Millionaire Secrets
Fill the tingle. Your body will let you know when you have the big idea. Trust your gut.
Push through the doubts. Walk up and talk.
Ask for what you need. No one can read your mind and no one is going to provide it for you.
No is not final. No is an opportunity for you to refocus.
Value the moment. Fill obligations and you have to deliver.

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Cathy Smith
Take one lap at a time.
Look for new ways to find your audience

Alan Corey: Secrets to Saving Money
Author: A Million Bucks by 30.
Never buy an umbrella
Never buy bottle water
Never pay full price for bread
Fill out comment cards
Never pay for guy membership
Eat Roman Noodles

Cynthia Kersey: millionaire Secrets
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Don’t fight a problem, solve it.
Don’t mistake success for failure.
Develop your inner circle.
Awaken your inner optimist.

Ryan Black: 8 Steps to Millions
Makers of Sambazon
Step 1: Birth of the Idea
Step 2: Dealing with Foreign Entities
Step 3: Financing the Business
Step 4: Forming Repeatable Systems
Step 5: Importing the Product
Step 6: Making First Sale – Door to door
Step 7: Marketing the Product – Samples
Step 8: Expanding the Business