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Success Begins After 40 – Why it’s not too late to build your business
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I’ve been listening to an audio version of the updated for the 21st Century edition of Napoleon Hill’s classic book Think and Grow Rich
. For some reason I resisted reading this book for many years but about a year ago I decided I needed to focus on making money so I bought the audio book. I’m glad I did.
A bright spot in the book is Hill`s assertion that most people don’t become a success until after 40 or even 50. In fact, he says “For the average person the greatest capacity to create is between 40 and 60”. I suspect that if Hill were alive today he’d expand that upper end.
Why are people not able to achieve before their 40s or 50s? According to Hill, Read More→
What you need to know about Facebook Timeline
Posted by: | CommentsAs a Facebook user you’ve probably noticed some changes in people’s profiles. This is the new Facebook “Timeline”. It is a major revamp of how profiles will look and function on Facebook. Initially it was in limited roll-out but soon it will be mandatory.
Here's why my Cover looks like today
The most noticeable change is Read More→
Ready, Set, Go Market
Posted by: | CommentsHow’s your marketing going so far in 2012? If you’re not getting the best results possible, list to this radio interview I did with business coach Yvonne McCoy on her BlogTalkRadio show SOS 4 Your Business where we talk about marketing and creating a marketing plan.
A new spin on Automated Direct Messages on Twitter
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve written a few times about automated direct messages on Twitter (Should You Send an Automated DM to New Twitter Followers? and Using Twitter: Another Look at Sending Automated Direct Messages)
An automated DM in Twitter is when you use software to automatically send a direct message to new followers. I was (and still am) against them because everyone knows they’re automated and are often annoying to the receiver. They do nothing to help the receiver get to know, like and trust you better. Getting people to know, like and trust you is your main purpose with marketing.
However, I recently received this automated DM and this is the exception to my no auto-DM rule. Why? Because it made me laugh – which is clearly the goal. It is poking fun at how most people craft these types of messages and instantly made me like the sender a little more. Therefore, it did the job.
What do you think? Leave a comment please.
Andrea J. Stenberg
Don’t wait for perfection
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Do you have a project or a new product in mind but you’re not quite ready to get started on it? Perhaps you’re waiting for a particular resource, or a chunk of free time to work on it. Or perhaps you need some extra money to put your plan into action.
I know because I’ve done this too – waited for the time/situation to be just perfect before getting started.
But then last week I was reading Prince Charming Isnt Coming
: How Women Get Smart About Money by Barbara Stanny. In this book, Stanny talks about how women often wait for a man to look after their finances for them. There is one particular passage that jumped out at me.
“Please note: “Mr. Right” or “Prince Charming” need not be a man, or even a person. Our prince could be an ideal job, an insurance settlement, the lottery jackpot, or just an amorphous “something” – anything that we fantasize will save us financially. To become genuinely smart with money, we must get to the point where we can say with total conviction, I can do it myself.
This passage really grabbed me by the throat and made me realize that there are a number of projects I’ve had on hold because I didn’t have everything perfect. Read More→
