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Lesson #5: Know Your Enemy
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything,” Morgan believed. “A good reason and the real reason.” Morgan was a mastermind when it came to knowing and being able to read his enemy. He knew his limits but he was able to sense theirs as well. He was thus able to navigate himself through the competition to end up on top.

Lesson #4: Learn From Your Mistakes and Make Less
“The hardest lesson I’ve learned has been to not repeat the dumb mistakes I’ve made over the years,” says Schwartz, “which are too numerous to list.”

Lesson #2: Do Not Try to Please Everyone All the Time
“Your vision is very important. You should know whom you’re selling to, what your marketing and advertising says about you, and whom it’s speaking to,” says Lauren. “Me personally, I don’t try to please everyone. I understand who I am selling to and I work towards that vision all the time.”
The Designated Guerrilla
Reality in running a small business means knowing exactly what you've got to do but not having enough time to do it. If you understand how guerrilla marketing can propel you into hyperprofitability but can't take the steps to activate and maintain the process, your understanding is wasted.

Build a Cohesive Marketing Strategy to Create the Perfect Storm for Your Internet Biz
Online marketing, like every other marketing program built in the brick-and-mortar world, must utilize multiple tactics that work together to form a single, comprehensive view of the company.
How to Evaluate Recruitment Consultants
Would your recruitment consultant advise you to hire a candidate whom they had not presented for your role, waiving their fee goodbye? If not you should fire them immediately, especially given current market conditions.
Life’s Problem Solvers: Duct Tape and WD40
“All of life’s problems can be solved with two things—duct tape and WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, you need duct tape. And if it doesn’t move and it should, you need WD40.”—Unknown
Stick to Your Guns and Understand That Failure is Natural
Stick to your guns. Outside advice should be welcomed but the vision should come from the entrepreneur and you should stick to your guns. Just because nobody has done it before doesn’t mean that you can’t; I urge entrepreneurs to maintain their vision, and the payoff will come.

Here Is A Method That Is Helping Managers Deal With Difficult Staff
The majority of new managers waste around 57% of their time dealing with difficult staff? Why? It is because they don’t know the secrets of how to easily deal with these problem staff that every business has. You cannot just end the employees’ contract anymore, like you could in the old days due to the new employment laws, so you as a manager have the challenge of handling and rectifying the situation, so ...

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Lesson #5: Stick To Your Guns
Rare is the entrepreneur who has achieved success by simply following the advice of others. Being willing to make unpopular decisions and having the resolve to stick to his decisions even in the face of doubt and criticism was what propelled Hershey to success. His choices were often questioned for their business sense and were thus not always popular with everyone from his wife to his advisors. But, in true entrepreneurial fashion, Hershey stuck to his guns.

Stick to Your Guns and Understand That Failure is Natural
Stick to your guns. Outside advice should be welcomed but the vision should come from the entrepreneur and you should stick to your guns. Just because nobody has done it before doesn’t mean that you can’t; I urge entrepreneurs to maintain their vision, and the payoff will come.

Interview With Jon Fox of Intense Debate
Allen Stern has a great interview up with Jon Fox, the co-founder of Intense Debate. Jon and Intense Debate were part of the first year's crop of companies from TechStars and are going great guns right now. They create the comment replacement system that I use on my blog - if you are a blogger and haven't tried it yet, wander on over to Intense Debate and take a look.
The 9 Most-Deadly Sins in Sales & Marketing
If business can be described as "war without guns" then Sales & Marketing are the military arm * Salespeople are the ground forces: Infantry, Cavalry, Armored * Marketing is Intelligence (Research & Market Data), Strategy, Planning, Artillery & Air (ads & promotion) Because most companies don't think of Business Development in these terms, they continually repeat the 9 Most-Deadly Sins listed below:
Young Guns: TheFearless Entrepreneur’s Guide too Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own by Robert Tuchman
Part of the American Dream is to own your own business. Millions of people have done this – but we also know that many people fail in business every year, many in the first years. So, is there a secret to succeeding as a new entrepreneur? There are a number of factors and Young Guns by Robert Tuchman is a very good place to get started.

Entrepreneur Spirit
• You have to believe in yourself, and become the entrepreneur that is inside. We all have it we just choose to use it when it suits us. Well you have to stick to you guns and work with the systems or methodologies that are in place and do what individuals have done before and proven it.
The C Factor!
Assembling a 'dream team' sales force is not as difficult as you may first think. I've known of businesses reaching great heights through the salesmanship of only a few sales-guns! Before creating a 'dream team' you need to have at least one exceptional salesperson you can model. Someone has to go there first! Whether this person is the company founder, (if sales savvy,) or a senior leader, there must be a working best-practice sales-process you can model and replicate. Once you have a high performing salesperson to model; their core characteristics, behaviours, and activities, then form the blueprint (DNA) of your 'dream team'. Keeping in-mind, that it's ok to have varying personalities in the same team, this enables your team to demonstrate versatility and engage a diverse customer base. You don't need to 'literally' clone sales

Cash for Clunkers -- Was It Worth It
The cash for clunkers program is over; at least for now. My initial thought was --- what about the cash for doors, refrigerators, guns, forklifts --- you name it? Why can't every business get a boost? Of course, I am being facetious simply because I believe we were only kidding ourselves by thinking the Government can actually "create demand". That is simply not true. Only the free market can create demand.
Modern Bank Robbers Wear Suits and Ties
Modern day bank robbers no longer wear masks nor do they carry guns, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz and that you need to learn to be savvy with your money, like the insiders, to take back your financial future.

How to Recruit Top Sales Guns
Companies have systems and processes for accounting, shipping, and marketing. It’s time to get a system in place for hiring top guns. These high flying sales folks will make you money, regardless of the economy. Stop using the excuse that it’s hard to hire good salespeople because they interview well and are charming. Sharpen your hiring process, become even better at interviewing and take the first step in making your life easier as a business owner or sales manager.

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