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Lesson #4: Give People More Than Their Money’s Worth
Much like the hoaxes for which he became famous, so too was the widely held belief that Barnum was the first to ever say, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”. He never did say those words. In fact, quite the opposite was true. More than any of his competitors, Barnum believed in giving his customers more their money’s worth. It was for this reason that people stayed loyal to him, keeping his business afloat when others were sinking around him.

Lesson #3: Give Back
“I don’t want to be a Russell Simmons, greedy-ass entrepreneur,” he exclaims. “I would like to be a Russell Simmons, philanthropist/activist.”
Lesson #2: Chase Your Dreams
“Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true,” Disney said. “This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence.”
The Online Auction King: Pierre Omidyar is Born
“I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job,” recalls Pierre Omidyar. An unexpected success, that side hobby has today become the world’s largest personal online trading community. The website hosts nearly four million auctions every day, with almost half a million new items being added for sale every 24 hours. Omidyar’s personal net worth is estimated to be roughly $10 billion.

Liquid Gold: How Candler Turned a Drink into an Empire
“Every human life is made to fit some place, and there is a place for every life,” Candler once said. “The lives and the places are made for each other that they may serve the purposes of the God who made them.” In creating his billion dollar empire, Candler seemed to have found his fit in life. Today, it is estimated that nearly half a million times every minute of every day, someone consumes a Coca-Cola product. How did a young man with less than $2 to his name go on to create one of the most successful companies in America?

Lesson #5: Learn The Fundamentals of Franchising
Joyce was Tim Hortons’ original franchisee, but it would not be for long. After working under Horton for a few short weeks, Joyce immediately realized that he was on his own. “It was clear that he didn’t know the business all that well and couldn’t help me with any of the problems we were having,” says Joyce. “Tim had no expertise whatsoever, so the burden fell squarely on me.” As a franchisee who had little support from Horton, Joyce began to understand exactly what it would take to run a successful franchise. And, that is exactly what he set out to do after Horton’s death.

Taking a Bet on BET: Johnson Jumps onto the Small Screen
Johnson was in a business meeting at the NCTA when he met a businessman who wanted to start a television station for the elderly. “I said, hmmm, let me see that,” recalls Johnson. “So I looked at it, and I said, wherever he had elderly I crossed out and put black people. Black people are a certain demographic, black people are poorly depicted on television, so on, and so forth.”

Why We Want You to Be Rich
My friend, Robert Kiyosaki, and I recently came out with a new book -- Why We Want You to Be Rich - and it's already a huge bestseller.
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.

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO INCREASE YOUR DIRECT MAIL EFFECTIVENESS
Innovative approaches to increase your direct mail effectiveness by getting creative.
An Enterprising Initiative
National Enterprise Week becomes Global Entrepreneurship Week as the UK's scheme to encourage enterprising youngsters takes hold around the world
Getting the Best Out of Your Franchise Agreement
You’re at that crucial point which will start your franchising career, that moment when you put your signature down on the dotted line of the franchise agreement. Signing isn’t as easy at it sounds, though. Reading the terms and clauses in the agreement may send you into a whirlwind of second thoughts. By the time you actually get to the dotted line at the bottom of the contract, you’ll be wondering what you’re getting yourself into.

Financing Your Franchise Business
So you’ve come to the conclusion that you’d rather buy into a franchise and get the benefit of a tried and true business model instead of figuring out everything yourself. Well, that makes perfect sense and you’re certainly not alone in this mode of thinking.
Defining Public Relations Success
Don't start a media campaign expecting a grand slam, go for the steady, slow-but constant built, yet, be prepared because grand slams do happen.
What Are The Results of A Recent Poll?
In a recent poll eighty-eight percent of the people surveyed reported that they would rather win a travel incentive then a cash incentive. One possible reason for this is that once money is spent (normally it is used to pay outstanding bills) it’s gone. A trip is something that the whole family can enjoy. The stories of a memorable trip are stories that get told years later at family gatherings.

Buying Financing a Franchise
This article touches base briefly on the best way to find a franchise and gives in depth information about best ways to finance your new franchise. The articles shows you how to weigh some options and gives suggestions to some questions you should ask yourself and institutions dealing with business loans. Provides information on how to get in touch with the author and for services to assist.
A retirement plan for African leaders, Mo Ibrahim
African leaders, Ibrahim (says), look to retirement as they would to the edge of a cliff, beyond which lies a dizzying fall towards retribution and relative poverty.
Take Your Stand… with Courage and Humility
Taking a stand, for anything, requires courage. Courageous leadership is knowing what's right and then acting on it.

2.3 Women workers and the work of women: Working Out of Poverty
Today’s girl child is tomorrow’s older woman worker, and it is her opportunities and experiences now that will shape her ability to obtain and maintain decent work throughout her adult life, and enjoy security and protection in her old age. If girls, compared to boys, face negative cultural attitudes and practices and discrimination from birth, they will grow up to be women with greater constraints and few choices and opportunities. In turn, they will be less able to influence positively the lives of their daughters and sons, so that poverty is likely to be passed on from one generation to the next.

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The Online Auction King: Pierre Omidyar is Born
“I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job,” recalls Pierre Omidyar. An unexpected success, that side hobby has today become the world’s largest personal online trading community. The website hosts nearly four million auctions every day, with almost half a million new items being added for sale every 24 hours. Omidyar’s personal net worth is estimated to be roughly $10 billion.

African Countries Focus on Microfinance: Twelve African Nations Engaged in the International Year of Microcredit to Date
Half of the population in Africa lives on less than one dollar a day. More than half the population has no access to safe drinking water. More than two million infants die annually before reaching their first birthday.[1] Such is the harsh reality of the scale of poverty in Africa. The Millennium Development Goals and the objective to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 has driven a number of regional and national initiatives focused on poverty eradication in Africa based on local needs and priorities.

THE Housing Solution
Well the numbers are in and it looks like home foreclosures are up a whopping 15% in the first half of 2009, affecting more than 1.5 million households. This problem does not appear to be getting any better as unemployment is nearing 10% and could go even higher, if you believe like me that government forecasts are about as accurate as throwing darts in the dark.
THE Housing Solution
Well the numbers are in and it looks like home foreclosures are up a whopping 15% in the first half of 2009, affecting more than 1.5 million households. This problem does not appear to be getting any better as unemployment is nearing 10% and could go even higher, if you believe like me that government forecasts are about as accurate as throwing darts in the dark.
The Stuff That Creates Growth In Your Franchise Biz
I recently read that there are approximately 13.7 million people unemployed as of April 2009. 3.7 million of those have been jobless for half a year or better (27 weeks or more). It is no wonder why so many have begun to turn to franchising or small business ownership as an alternative. We all have grown weary in the workplace of the lack of security and even-handedness in the career market.

Kraft Buys Into the Mirage of Vendor Rationalization
In yet another example of the "when will they ever learn" category, About.com's Martin Murray's article "Kraft To Rationalize Vendors" reported that the company "announced that it is planning to cut its supplier base in half, affecting more than 30,000 businesses, but possibly saving Kraft more than $300 million a year." Putting aside for a moment that enterprise-wide rationalization strategies rarely deliver the sustainable savings that are expected - it would be interesting to see how the $300 million per year number was actually calculated - history has shown that the "sifting" process usually results in a supply base composed of the least desirable vendors.
There's no more appropriate name
As soon as you die, the feds demand nearly half or more of everything you have. Like it or not – it's a tax for dying. On the other hand, you could call it a living tax that is paid when you die. Just think, if your house is valued at more than $1 million, you'll owe the feds 55 percent of everything else!
Analytics – The Key to Profitable Marketing
There is an old advertising saying attributed to John Wanamaker that goes “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, the trouble is I don’t know which half”. Today you may still think that half of your advertising may be wasted, but shame on you if you don’t know which half.
Is Your Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
We often hear people talking about whether someone's glass is half full or half empty, which is really a metaphor for how someone views their life or the world around them. If someone is negative or pessimistic, people might regard them as seeing their glass half empty. When people view their glass as half empty, they are looking at what they don't have instead of what they do. If someone is positive and optimistic, people would say they see their glass as being half full. Half of their glass may be empty, but they choose to look at it as half full. They are seeing what they have instead of what they don't. Which type of person are you? Do you see your glass as half full or half empty?
Invest In Real Estate - And Worry?
See the news today? Standing out in a sea of bad news, experts now estimate over one million American homes will be foreclosed this year. More than half a million have already been lost to foreclosure since 2010 began. In a "normal" year, the U.S. sees only a tenth as many foreclosures. Yikes! House foreclosures up ten times?

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