Category: Money

Motivating ourselves to go to the gym, eat healthier, or wake up earlier can be difficult. But motivating someone else to do better can sometimes feel impossible.

But don’t strain your brain trying to remember how many pixels go where or scour each site’s help section for the information — instead, bookmark this page and use the infographic below as a cheat sheet for creating all your social media images.

Because I devoted myself to this simple idea, it made me a millionaire by age 24. In my personal life, I've found that there were 10 strange secrets about millionaires. Once you see these common trends, you'll be able to leverage all your current opportunities.

We have sold millions of books and spoken to thousands of audiences, but none of it would have happened without the help of our tremendous friends and customers.

Here are 8 websites that as an entrepreneur or not you are certain to find useful, no matter what your line of business.

Larry Ellison, founder and chairman of international mega-giant Oracle, is one of the most interesting figures in tech.

Please welcome to the podcast James Kahn, author of the novelizations for The Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Poltergeist, and Return of the Jedi, writer/producer for television series Star Trek: Voyager and Melrose Place, as well as his new crowdfunded independent film project, Wrongside Bob. James discusses with us in his words what it takes to conquer the white whale and reinvent yourself with creative career changes shifting between emergency room medicine and creative writing.

While the infographic below is satirical, the basic idea behind some of the silly suggestions really hits the nail on the head: Sometimes, proving yourself is more about appearances than it is about substance.

These rags-to-riches stories remind us that through determination, grit, and a bit of luck anyone can overcome their circumstances and achieve extraordinary success.

To ensure your new product or service will succeed, says Flynn, you need to validate whether your audience wants it and also whether you’re the right person to do it, or what Flynn refers to as the “idea-to-self fit.”

Small helpers that allow you to create social media images fast and easy are in high demand.

Here are 11 important facts that I learned in my many years in business that allowed me to make over $500 million.

As Steve Jobs said in the 2005 Stanford commencement address: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

When you’re sending an email, there are a lot of little details to remember — and those details can make or break the success of your email campaign.

“Baking is a billion-dollar industry that has not been modernized,” says Sarah Michelle Gellar, cofounder of subscription-based baking kit startup Foodstirs.

Meticulous preparation, an even temperament and a genuine love of the game are all factors I attribute to my success in this arena. If you’re working on your own skills, there are several tips I consider crucial when it comes to sealing the deal and (graciously) getting what you want:

Many of us work more productively when we’re at home compared to working in an office environment. But working from home is not without its own challenges. Become more effective when working at home with these top 10 tips.

Be determined to succeed when negotiating and in life!

2015 was a big year for me professionally. I transitioned from coding to product management. While I’m constantly learning and have a long way to go, I want to share a list of 19 things that I’ve learned last year:

Nearly a quarter, 23 percent, of Americans worked from home in 2014, according to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics survey. If you’re one of the lucky few that enjoys the ability to work from anywhere you like, the following tools will help keep you productive — no matter where you are:

Feeding yourself and your family can be really expensive. A tight budget shouldn’t mean that you can’t eat well though. There are many things you can do that will help save some money on food. The more you do these things, the more you will reap the results. Some things cost more money upfront but save over the long run and some are instant money savers.

From Amazon and Apple to Harley Davidson and toy-maker Mattel, these garage startups have turned into multinational powerhouses.

While your best bet to accumulate wealth is to curb your spending, start investing, and develop "rich habits," there are some less conventional ways to make millions relatively quickly. No guarantees these strategies will work for you, but here are seven creative ways regular people achieved millionaire status:

Yes, it’s tempting to gravitate towards those get-rich-quick and make-money-overnight offers, but unless you’re willing to risk becoming the victim of a scam, you’ll need to think of more creative ways to earn money.

With that in mind, here are 23 ideas to help you pad your wallet...

When I have an important unfinished work task, it inevitably clangs around the inside of my head when I'm trying to sleep. This is pointless — there's nothing to be gained by obsessing over how I'm going to report out a story when it's 1 a.m. and I need sleep. A study in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology highlighted by the British Psychological Society's Research Digest offers one potential way out of this self-induced brain trap.

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

After reinventing the wheel for myself time and time again I’ve come to realize that the secret to millennial success in the business world is a combination of grit and creative thinking. Here are the seven mental shifts I implemented to turbo-charge my growth.

Procrastination is fueled by excuses. We cannot expect to overcome procrastination and improve our health and productivity until we’re able to overcome the negative mental habits that lead us to procrastinate in the first place.

The answer from Jim McIntyre was this: "Most people think that when they get their paycheck, the first thing they should do is pay all their bills--and then, if there is anything left over, they can save a few dollars."

Do you want to get rich? I mean, do you really want to get rich? Here are 11 important facts that I learned in my many years in business that allowed me to make over $500 million.

Here are 10 ways to build a renowned personal brand.

My "10-minute rule" is pretty straightforward: Every task on your to-do list should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. If it takes longer than 10 minutes, then you should have broken it down into smaller tasks or delegated it to someone else. The key to this rule is in enforcing it, which means setting the timer on your phone to go off at the 10-minute mark. The level of speed and focus that this brings to your day is nothing short of astounding.

The Idea of leaving traditional employment and seeking the entrepreneurial or freelance lifestyle is a choice that many have decided to make for this year. Maybe you want to quit your job and start that bakery business you always dreamed of, or maybe you want to follow a life long passion such as writing or doing tasks that you are qualified to do. Knowing the commitment you will have to make and how it will fit into your life is very important.  Entrepreneurs and freelancers play different roles in society, but make no mistake, they are both key in our economy and to its growth. How do you decide if you want to be an entrepreneur or freelancer?

Here’s how to grow your business without a lot of money and resources.

Do you really think Steve Jobs paused several times a day to look upon a task list and asked himself, “What’s my next action?”. Do you really think Mark Cuban has a long list of to-dos that he sorts by A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, C1, and so on?

Success is not a part time thing, it’s not a full time thing, it’s an all the time thing.

In the office, your desk is your command center. And experts said how well it's organized can help set the tone and productivity level at work.

There are many arguments for and against flat design, so in this article I wanted to take a quick look at how flat design can actually affect your bottom line. When it comes to arguments, nothing speaks louder than actual dollars. I examine three case studies where flat design has increased conversion rates (and in some cases sales!) and how you can apply these to your next project.

It isn't enough simply to sign a bunch of papers establishing an estate plan and other end-of-life instructions. You also have to make your heirs aware of them and leave the documents where they can find them.

Whether you play weekly, join the office pool, or swear off gambling entirely, everyone can learn a little something from those hapless souls whose lives took a turn for the worse when their lottery dreams came true.

You’ve done all the hard work to create a stellar LinkedIn profile. You have a professional headshot, a compelling headline and a complete, authentic summary (if you are still working on this, read this post for guidance). When LinkedIn says your profile is “all-star,” it’s time to turn your hard work into a tool that will advance your career. Here are seven actions to take (in four categories) to maximize the value of your perfect profile:

If you throw a frog into boiling water, it’ll jump straight out. However, if it’s placed in cold water and the temperature gradually increased, it’ll be found dead without any attempt to escape. We’ve all experienced that subtle death. Neuromarketing takes advantage of that vast blind-spot beyond our conscious awareness; leveraging psychological phenomenons in subtle ways to lead us into certain decisions. Here are 10 subtle neuromarketing strategies to start leveraging:

I have spent the last 16 years advising some of the most amazing, successful, and yes, wealthy families in the US. These enterprising families have worked most of their lives to be the best at what they do and bring the same talent to managing their wealth. Wealth does not build itself, but it can be built, nurtured, and preserved. Based on that understanding and my experience, here is my list of the top 10 strategies for building and growing wealth.

When it comes to B2B businesses and corporate YouTube pages–and why you might want to optimize them to take full advantage of all SEO benefits–consider this: YouTube is the second largest search engine on the Internet. The only larger search engine (today anyway), is The Google, YouTube’s parent company. In fact, according to Alexa and SimilarWeb, YouTube attracts the third highest amount of traffic of all websites in the world.

Let’s face it: You have competition. There are other companies that provide an offering similar to yours. Chances are, you’re not the only one who can offer the benefits you provide. In the world of entrepreneurship, success depends greatly on your ability to stand out from the crowd. Achieving your goals requires you to differentiate yourself from the others who are vying to achieve the same objectives.

Here are some techniques and tips I’ve learned from sending out successful cold emails as well as tricks of the trade I’ve learned from receiving great cold emails.

What’s driving their success? One factor is the growth of the internet, which has enabled individual entrepreneurs to plunge into a vast, global marketplace cheaply and quickly. “It’s provided a whole set of capabilities and tools these entrepreneurs can access,” says Andrew Karpie, a principal analyst at the Research Platform in San Francisco, who studies online platforms used in the labor area.

If you run a one-person business, you know how hard it is to get everything done, even if you’re super-efficient. To help you amp up your personal productivity, I asked owners of some of the million-dollar, one- and two-person businesses I’ve profiled in this blog to share some of the tools and hacks they use to automate their work and extend their reach. Here are some of their favorites:

Instead of following a similar futile pattern for your focus in 2016, make this the year you are going to be more intentional about where you spend your time, your energy and your resources. Follow these 12 habits that successful leaders adopt to create explosive growth in their business:

These are the 8 key factors that made my book a best seller. If you’re a current or prospective self-published author, you’ll want to bookmark this one. This is what made my book a mini-phenomenon… one which continues to grow.