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Skyrocket Your Sales And Destroy Your Competitors With “The Risk Reversal Strategy”
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It’s natural to always try and present your business in the most favourable light possible when marketing yourself. However this often leads to one of the most common marketing blunders – discussing only the positive aspects of doing business with you. Avoiding the elephant in the room – the risks ...

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Can An Ordinary Business Be Innovative?
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Peter Drucker is famously quoted as saying that the two basic functions of every business are marketing and innovation. The word innovation often conjures up thoughts of high tech startups in Silicon Valley, biotech companies or engineering firms. The question often arises – can an ordinary business, that sells ordinary ...

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The Formula For Rapid Business Growth
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Einstein’s famous definition of insanity, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”, is well known but rarely acted upon. At the start of every new year people talk about “resolutions” with the hope that as the last digit of the date increments that things will ...

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Becoming A Voice Of Value
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With so many people and so many things competing for our attention, just keeping up with all that’s coming in can feel overwhelming. We may feel the need to keep up with it all to be properly informed and up-to-date. Certainly there’s a satisfaction in feeling like you’re across everything. ...

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What Is A Minimum Viable Product?
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As an angel investor, I get to see many pitches, product prototypes and startups. One of the most difficult things I see is startups who have spent enormous amounts of money on product development, only to find out that there is no demand for their product – or that their ...

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How To Get Things Done – Part 2
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Last week’s article began a two-part series on how to get things done. In this article we conclude our “best of” list for high performance and productivity. Combined, this two-part series of articles can be thought of as a blueprint for how high performance people think and work. I’ve always ...

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How To Get Things Done – Part 1
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It amazes me how some people just have a knack for getting things done – they have an amazing bias for action. While others are still compiling a pros and cons list, they’ve already finished or are well on their way to finishing the task at hand. A wise man ...

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The Science Of Goal Management
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There’s no end of articles, books and blogs on goal setting. It’s certainly a worthy topic and any entrepreneur worth their salt has spent a lot of time and energy on setting both personal and business goals. However rarely do I see much written about “goal management” i.e. what to ...

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The Best Kept Secret Of The Rich – Leverage
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My wife was recently subtly pointing out little things around the house that needed doing, as wives often do on Saturday afternoons when they sense you’re about to reach for a cool drink and a bit of downtime. “Maybe you should get someone to come out and fix the silicon ...

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Start With The End In Mind
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Neil Armstrong once said, “You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don’t leave until you have solved both problems.” In the excitement of starting a business, it’s common to spend a ...

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