Category: Money

The acquisition, finalized for an undisclosed sum, marks a pivotal moment in Kallisti Publishing’s dedication to expanding its publishing footprint.

This content was parsed from Chapter One of the e-Book, Beginners Marketing Class, Provision Your Ship.

​There's an important lesson here. Namely, you can't accurately and reliably evaluate marketing by your subjective judgment. The only way you can know whether something works is to test it.

Jim DeGaetano is the President of Diamond Wealth Advisors.

Focus On The Few!

Fred Gleeck, a marketing consultant, offers yet another solution: creating information products based on your expertise and earning income unrelated to your time.

Business Leader Dan Peña - How To Make Your First Billion Dollars

The founder of LinkedIn says too many of us are using the site all wrong.

In today’s episode of the Tremendous Leadership podcast, Dr. Tracey Jones interviews Chad Hyams of the Win Make Give podcast.

Their Yak-King Video and audio series of Podcasts have been featuring very interesting people. I suggest you subscribe to their YouTube Channel 

In the interview we cover bootstrapping, getting customers, finding product market fit, what role a CEO should fill, and how a companies should get customers and be grown right in the SaaS and tech space.

Anthony discussed the many varieties of publishing while also giving potential authors and writers valuable advice about the publishing process, books, and marketing.

Many would argue being able to talk to anyone on earth is a superpower.

The story of a man, a lie, a video game handheld, and a business empire.

Although her focus is on the marketing of books, the principles are relevant to all venues.

The best negotiator I knew always acted like an idiot. He acted so well that I thought he was really stupid. I also thought at the time that he was my best friend.

No joke. This is going to be a bullet FAQ on starting a business.

I catalogued all the reasons I would fail to make or keep $1 million. The reasons were never on the outside world. The reasons were always inside of me.

Very few of us sit down to create art or work they hope will disappear.

If you do these 3 things CORRECTLY it's almost impossible if for you not to make a substantial amount of money. They are borderline unfair to anyone NOT using them, and most people do not use them.

I was a poor high school student with mediocre grades. I didn’t play any sports. I had few friends.

"I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35." -- Jim Rohn.

Conrad Leslie (d. 12/25/18) has been described as the nation's leading private crop/harvest forecaster. His numbers moved markets and were, in many cases, more accurate than those of the USDA.

I was fascinated. He was my hero. But I knew the truth about him wasn’t so simple.

I get into why I think 99% of entrepreneurs should not be on social media and why I cut out Youtube/Instagram and most of my businesses.

Unless you’re Jeff Bezos, there will always be someone with more disposable income.

With the tables turned, Rachelle quickly answers the question himself: “$34,950.”

Every millionaire found their own way to earn money and reach success, however, if we compare the habits of rich people to our own, it’s easy to see they have something in common.

In 1994, Jeff Bezos co-founded the future e-commerce behemoth Amazon in a Seattle garage. Previously employed by a Wall Street hedge fund, he quit his job to try his hand at building an online business before most people even know what the internet was.

In an interview with Time, the Amazon CEO revealed he gave himself a 30 percent chance that Amazon would succeed. "That's actually a very liberating expectation, expecting to fail," Bezos said.

Related: How Rich Was Warren Buffett at Your Age?

Now the richest person on any continent, Bezos is the first person to obtain a net worth surpassing $150 billion in the 30 years Forbes has been tracking the richest Americans. His fortune is estimated at $157.1 billion as of August 14, 2018. Amazon's market capitalization is nearing the $1 trillion mark -- $933 billion -- as of August 14, 2018. So, Bezos is clearly doing something very right, but he's made plenty of mistakes along the way.

Here are the failures Bezos endured before he convinced millions of people that Amazon Prime is worth the money.

From the beginning, Red Bull, the belief system, and Red Bull, the product, were inextricably interwined.

Since we just passed the ninth anniversary of the idea of Uber (originally UberCab, in Aug 2008), I thought it would be interesting to share the very first pitch deck we created in late 2008.

$70 million was a lot of money for me at the time. And I couldn’t sleep at night until I gave back every dollar to the people who gave it to me.

So to set the best, clearest goals, here are four pitfalls to avoid, according to the 69-year-old hedge fund magnate.

Most of the advice you’re getting about blogging is DEAD WRONG.

Marketing is pretty simple: Find your potential customers and tell them why they should buy what you’re selling. Of course, just because something is simple doesn’t mean it’s easy.

Here are ten fantastic — and often funny — quotes from J. Paul Getty that, while they won’t make you rich in and of themselves, will definitely point you in the right direction.

As James Altucher says, "Billions is the first show that gets Wall Street right."

When I was stationed in Germany I heard the word Über for the first time.

The law of attraction has a bad rep, and it’s not surprising.

More than money or fame or any other kind of recognition is the fact that a book is permanent. A successful book becomes a part of the world’s library — a milestone in history that the human race carries with it forward to territories unknown.

Believe it or don’t, I just flunked another test for “entrepreneurial” traits!

A memoir of (a) renovating, (b) repairing, (c) cleaning up, (d) dickering over, (e) painting, (f) repainting, (g) and taking the best care possible of a rental property—and the people inside it.

Having an idea is so close to nothing that nobody who has actually done anything cares about your idea.

The co-founder of Paul Mitchell hair products and founder of Patrón tequila shares his best advice for business owners.

A seven-figure nest egg may feel far off, but these millionaires—and millionaires in the making—have figured out the keys to financial success.

The youngest person ever to win the lottery in Britain wants to sue the jackpot honchos who made her wealthy because the dough “ruined her life,” according to a report.

I’m invested in about 28 private companies. I’ve advised probably another 50 private companies. I’m on the board of several private companies and one public company. The companies ranging from $0 in revenues to a billion in revenues.

Having started more than 400 businesses, it should come as no surprise that I was always trying to get new ventures off the ground, even as a teenager.