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Investment Whiz Kid: Buffett Amasses a Fortune
With $100 of his own money and $105,000 from friends and family, Buffett created Buffett Associates, Ltd. in 1956. By the end of the year, he was managing over $300,000 in capital from a small office out of his new home. It was a lot of money, but for Buffett, it wasn’t enough.

The King of the Skies: Herb Kelleher Gets His Start
Almost 40 years ago, Herb Kelleher came up with a radical idea: He wanted to start a no-frills airline that not only ensured people got to where they wanted to go and at low prices, but that they had fun doing it. Today, the small Texas airline he founded in 1971 has become the second largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. Southwest Airlines carries over 100 million passengers to 63 cities across the U.S. each year.

The Knockout Entrepreneur: The Early Years of George Foreman
He went from being a lean, mean fighting machine to selling lean, mean grilling machines. At 6 foot 3.5 inches, George Foreman stands tall as a leader in the boxing world and business world alike. And, in both, he has risen to unprecedented heights of success. Considered one of the top ten greatest boxers of all time, and having sold almost 100 million George Foreman Grills, this is one entrepreneur who refuses to get knocked down.

Lesson #4: Play On Perception
“If you want to sell a car and you spend five dollars to wash and polish it and then apply a little extra elbow grease, suddenly you find you can charge an extra four hundred dollars,” says Trump, “and get it.”
Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul
She is one of the most recognized pop singers and choreographers in the modern music industry. He is an award-winning executive with Sony/BMG Records who has helped shaped artists that together have achieved sales of more than 100 million. Together, Simon Cowell and Paul Abdul make up two thirds of the judging panel on the hugely successful “American Idol” television show.

Lesson #1: “I learned to make people love me to get my message across.”
As a boxer, Foreman was known as a mean and ruthless fighter. He fought with fury rather than grace; he stormed around the ring with rage while his opponents danced around him. He even showed up to fight Muhammad Ali with a fierce German Shepherd at his side. It was not so much a persona as his actual personality. He was unpopular both in the ring and out, and unless he was willing to make some changes, Foreman knew that nobody would want to listen to him talk, let along buy anything from him.

Uncle No Name
His name was Wally Amos and he built a $100 million business selling his "Famous Amos Cookies." Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, he lost his business. He went from fame and fortune to a debt level of one million dollars.

Elephant Math
Darwin pointed out that if you take one pair of breeding elephants and make some conservative estimates about their fertility, you would have more than 15 million elephants in less than 500 years (if none of them died an early death.)
Teleworking
Among the business trends for 2008 is an even greater increase in teleworking.
Does Video Marketing really produce results for free?
If you want to know the answer to the question if anyone is making money from free videos, the answer is absolutely yes! Personally, some of my best traffic and quality leads have come from video marketing. It is the one to one contact with the person through the camera is the key to this success.

Reference Requests for Salespeople
For the first time in months, I was recently asked for references. No problem! But it got me thinking about who asks for references, why they ask for references and when they ask for references...and what salespeople do when they're asked for references, and whether those references lead to closed business. As I thought this through, quite surprisingly, my three largest personal clients - all multi-billion dollar corporations, never asked. Three medium sized companies - over $100 million - never asked. I am personally working with only a handful of smaller companies and only one of them asked. Those insights tie directly to why people ask for references:
WHAT MAKES A QUALIFIED PROSPECT, QUALIFIED?
Have you ever asked yourself, what are the specific characteristics of a qualified prospect? What are the minimum pieces of information I need to know to determine if the potential for a sale exists? What pieces of information are required before you consider a prospect qualified? Am I using a consistent sales system or process to successfully obtain the information needed? Here are 17 areas with questions you may want to ask yourself so you can create a qualified prospect profile also known as an Account Sales Profile™.

The Difference between AIG Small Businesses
Random thoughts on life and entrepreneurship.
Game Developer's Conference - Day 2
Catching what is new, what is hot and what the trends are in social and mobile gaming. All spell opportunities.
Do you know what your Junk Mail is Doing?
My recent poll results were very similar to the recent surveys on the topic “what people do with the promotional inserts which accompany your bills and statements in the mail”. Do you know what your junk mail is doing?
The Vatican embraces YouTube
Creating an online video channel to broaden your brand
Seek and ye shall find – the right information
Good information is all around you
Powerful Sales & Marketing Ideas of $100 Million Dollar Companies
The hardest thing we need to do today is grab the attention of the potential buyer and keep the attention long enough to help them buy your product. This approach of offering some education of value to them gives you a significant opportunity to attract more buyers and build more credibility. I call this “educational based marketing” and here’s a line you should write down: You will attract way more buyers if you are offering to teach them something of value to them than you will ever attract by simply trying to sell them your product or service.

Ready, Fire, Aim To Improve Your Sales Strategies and Selling Techniques
If you are not talking about sales and revenues 80% of the time, you are not doing your job as an entrepreneur. Sales and growth are the ultimate measurement. You cannot build your company or your business without achieving those goals. Focusing on sales is not bad; it is not evil – it is almost required. Michael Masterson says it very clearly: if you’re not even selling it yet – don’t think about making it better! Think about how to sell more of it. As a perfectionist, I know how it feels to have 10 ideas to make something better even before it’s released to the market, but sometimes you have to realize that it’s the last thing you should be doing. It’s not about making something better, but about selling something, selling a lot more of it, making the sales process better, and then improving it based on what your customers say
Why Facebook and LinkedIn are Good for Your Business
Have you been hearing all of the buzz about social networking? Feeling confused? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. The great news is that it isn’t as complicated or time consuming as it may seem.

From Rhetoric to Action: The African Investment Climate Facility
The Investment Climate Facility (ICF) for Africa, an innovative public private partnership aimed at making Africa a better place in which to do business, was launched. The Commission for Africa, convened by the United Kingdom government, had proposed the initiative, which was endorsed at last year's World Economic Forum Africa Economic Summit and by the leaders of the G 8 industrialized nations at their summit in Scotland. According to ICF Co Chair and session Chair Niall FitzGerald, Chairman, Reuters, United Kingdom; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the facility had already received US$ 90 million in commitments. Additional unspecified pledges made by the European Union and the African Development Bank during the session were likely to push the total above US$ 100 million.
Introduction - Microfinance:A Platform for Social Change
The phrase “Customer is King” may be an oversimplified cliché in business, but – stripped of all its bells and whistles – this phrase represents the essence of a consumer business.
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AfriCap Microfinance Fund Attracts Notable Investors Including Nordic MicroCap, BlueOrchard and Gray Ghost, Raises Capital to $50m
AfriCap Microfinance Fund, established in 2001 as the first African private equity fund dedicated to the microfinance industry, has closed a second round of investment, raising its capital from USD 14 million (Sh 910 million) to USD 50 million (Sh 3.25 billion).
What Is Leadership - What Is Management?
Two absolutely necessary things needed for the survival of any organization are leadership and management. Roles described in a million ways, in a million places. But what's the difference - and, why are both important, in their own way?
Earning Money On eBay - 3 Important Tips
eBay is probably one of the most successful online auction houses on the internet today. And why wouldn't it be? Take a look at some of the numbers. One of the most important numbers is the amount of people who have an eBay profile, 242 Million plus the 5 million shoppers that visit each day. When you really stop and think about it, that is a lot of people that you could be marketing your product or services to. Every day there are trades to the tune of $141 Million dollars. Wouldn't you like part of that large amount of money to be in your checking count? Sure you would.
Consider an Internet Marketing Business Plan as the U.S. Unemployment Rate Remains High
If you step back and look at the overall unemployment picture, the numbers aren't quite so good. There are still 15.4 million Americans looking for work. There are another 11.5 million who are underemployed - those employed but making less than before they were laid off.

They Keep Saying The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share
These are facts: the top one percent of wage earners in America carry a full 40% of the tax burden. That's only about 1.4 million of us, carrying 40% of the load for the other approximately 300 million. And if the tax rates go back to pre-2001 levels, those 1.4 million who have all that money to invest (and with which to employ vast numbers of other wage earners) will certainly keep that money in their pockets... and that means it'll be sheltered from taxation.

Joint Venture Equity
Since institutional equity providers prefer larger deals, developers looking for $3 million in equity, for example, have a hard time getting their attention. But if an organization has the capacity to do seven deals a year, for instance, then the amount of equity inches up in the aggregate of $20 million to $30 million over 12 months, and it hits the threshold where it makes sense.
Internet Marketing is Popular and Inexpensive Way to Market Your Business
Do you want to hear my answer to why Internet Marketing is so popular? It’s simple, really – 250 million. You’re probably thinking – what the heck?! Ok, ok, let me explain – 250 million is approximately the number of Internet users in North America, according to Word Internet Usage Statistics website. But really, it gets better and my answer now is 750 million. Because you know, the average time spent on browsing Internet each day is 3 hours per person.
GLOBAL TRENDS OF ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MIGRATION-Impacts on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Human movement before the establishment of political boundaries or within one state, is termed migration. There are many reasons why people might choose to emigrate. Emigration is the act of leaving one's native country or region to settle in another. It is the same as immigration but from the perspective of the country of origin. According to the International Organization for Migration there are more than 200 million migrants around the world today. Europe hosted the largest number of immigrants, with 70.6 million people in 2005, the latest year for which figures are available. North America, with over 45.1 million immigrants, is second, followed by Asia, which hosts nearly 25.3 million.

Legal Marketing: Location is important
Social Media is not going away. In the past year alone, the number of companies using social media – your clients – has increased to 65 percent. Over 550 million people are using Facebook. There are over 100 million company pages on Facebook now and over a million company profiles on LinkedIn. Could one of those companies be your next client? LinkedIn has 85+ million users. A new member joins every second. Are they your next client?
2 Parts of a Facebook Marketing Strategy for Your Business
You know that Facebook has been all the rage for quite a while now! A lot of people are creating content, interacting in social space (commenting, contributing, etc). Indeed, Facebook now has over 500 million active users. If you're in business online or brick and mortar, those numbers probably have you drooling right now. Just think - 500 million users all gathered in one place. And best of all, they tend to be organized according to their interests (i.e., by niche). What good is that to you? Well, if you don't know, we really need get you some sales and marketing training! Which brings us to the million-dollar question: How do you tap into this pool of prospects for maximum profits
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