Category: Money

In a negotiation, you can use theatrics to appear stronger or project the appropriate image of a secretpersona. The theatrics you engage in will determine the flow of the negotiation. Continue reading to discover how you can project the image of different characters to enhance your negotiation efforts and outcomes … action!

President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” If you’re starting a business, you should have a business plan regardless of whether you’re bootstrapping it or looking for outside funding.

The 1 percent didn't become wealthy trading time for money, and neither will you. It's tolerable for a start, but at some point, you have to intensely focus on scaling and leverage. Enter the Internet.

Here’s the REAL reasons entrepreneurs fail. Its not because of a bad programmer. Fire him and get a new one. Its not because a client pulled out at the last minute. Get a new client, or anticipate. It not because your girlfriend cheated on you. Kick her to the curb. Its not because some guy sued you or your employees delivered an unfinished product. We already know its your fault. Every failure (EVERY) failure boils down to these core reasons that come from the INSIDE. Some might seem obvious but they really are the ONLY reasons for failure. They are the CORE FOUNDATIONS of every failure. Pay attention to them please:

Kazuo Inamori, the Japanese entrepreneur who founded two multi-billion dollar companies and rescued another, is known for his management philosophy. Here are five of his ideas.

We see it all the time in our workplaces where supervisors or managers create toxic environments because of their need to exert authority and control. The only one who wins in this type of culture is the boss. The people and the organization as a whole suffer. So how do you know if you’re a boss or a leader? Here are seven simple ways to tell:

If you want to improve in this fast and furious world, surround yourself with like-minded people further along the road than you. It’s as simple as that. Each time I chat with these wonderful individuals, I gobble up their wisdom. They’ve taught me a lot, and productivity is high on the list.

I hear thousands of speakers every year and I am consistently amazed at how few tell stories. They think a powerpoint slide, or their intelligence, or that fact that people have no choice but to be there will make their presentation worth listening to. This is straight up WRONG!

As I've been driving through the fog for over a decade now, I thought I would take today's post and boil down 15 of the biggest lessons I've learned over the past decade of building and growing businesses. Consider these tips "stuff I wish I had known when I was young and stupid." Let's get to them.

Gabelli, the highest paid chief executive of a publicly traded Wall Street firm, then offered two pieces of sage advice to recent graduates hoping to make their fortune:

Jobs turned the product launch into an art form. He also leaves a legacy by which entrepreneurs can learn to dazzle their audiences. The following five keynotes will help anyone give the presentation of a lifetime.

Some billionaires grab headline attention, but one is happy to share how he has made money from stocks for decades and decades.

There's a common misconception that trust is something that builds gradually — that the only person you could possibly reveal personal information to is a close friend or family member you've known for years.

They may seem absurd but these five crazy ideas, proved the nay-sayers wrong and went on to achieve phenomenal success.

Your children aren't going to learn what they need to know about money in school, so it's up to you.

Negotiator’s Personality Styles and Traits...

When working with an outside company, there are only so many factors you can control. But based on their behavior, you should know when it’s time to back out.

Using all of this data enabled me to reach the front page of BuzzFeed on two separate occasions, bringing through over 10,000 visits to my blog, a ton of social engagement and a few hundred new newsletter subscribers. Alongside this, the links that I was able to gain from BuzzFeed had a seriously positive impact on my search engine rankings (it’s a DA92 site).

"Free" is the most awesome price of all. "Free" gets you started when you have nothing. "Free" took me from 0 to the first 1,000,000 visitors to my blog.

Landing pages are pages that are designed specifically to accomplish conversion goals. Occasionally, a home page functions as a landing page (though some would argue that a home page can never truly be a landing page), but in many other cases, special pages are created for specific marketing campaigns.

Dan Peña probably isn’t a man you’ve heard of before, but there are literally a gazillion reasons why anyone seeking success should pay attention to him. For one, he grew up in a small “barrio” in Los Angeles and was thrown in jail five times for crimes that were “alcohol-related,” but he managed to turn his life around by taking $820 and building it into a $450 million fortune in eight years’ time after taking his oil company public.

Whether you are leaving your job because you are experiencing a layoff, leaving for a new job, or something else, the tips below should help you leave on better terms. You never know when you may need a positive reference, a recommendation letter, if you may ever work with anyone at the company again, or whether you may even want your old job back.

The following video shows excerpts of a company retreat that Jobs orchestrated during the first three months of the company. And it's fascinating. The lessons for entrepreneurs are plentiful. I've picked out eight that I feel are noteworthy. (I've also included the time frame from the video in parentheses.)

For introverts, attending a conference can feel exhausting. But if you avoid conferences — or just avoid talking to anyone while attending them — it can hurt your career and your business. The good news is that you don’t have to go against the grain of your own personality to get value from conferences and other networking events. For some practical advice on the best ways to handle conferences as an introvert, we turned to Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking and co-founder of Quiet Revolution.

With all the controversy surrounding the new Steve Jobs movie and its portrayal of him as a difficult person, it's sort of interesting to see videos of the real Steve Jobs from his early days.

Economist Sam Wilkin explains why it takes more than a billion-dollar idea to become a billionaire.

Local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 2015 provides tips and strategies for small, local businesses to rank better on Google. Content looks at leading Local SEO ranking factors, display changes, importance of business reviews to win customers, and more. Presentation by Kristopher B. Jones at PubCon Las Vegas, October 2015.

Longtime toy industry expert Mike Marra shares his insights.

We all do it sometimes. We undermine ourselves by using less-effective language, verbal tics, and other oral miscues. That means there's always room for improvement to help your messages get through effectively. We can all also use a little reminder now and then, so here are 17 of the worst offenses. (Got a few I forgot? Let us know in the comments or contact me directly. )

Shock! Horror!  That’s what Stephen King’s name calls to mind. But it’s not all he writes. In my opinion, Stephen King has written one of the best books around about writing. It’s about the development of his writing career and writing tips and it’s called On Writing. And I reckon, it’s not just good for learning about writing in general, but about conversion-centered copywriting. See if you agree with me.

His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing.

If you truly have a great idea, then not only will no one try to steal it, but you’ll have to force it down peoples’ throats to even have them look at it, let alone buy it or invest in it.

Justine Musk, first wife of billionaire Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX (who already made a huge announcement today) has learned a few things about wealth and hard work from her ex-husband, who has an estimated net worth of $12.1 billion.

If your partnership or sole proprietorship business is sued or can’t pay its bills, your personal assets can be on the hook. That is why both the Limited Liability Company (LLC) and C corporation, or just corporation, are popular business structures, as they minimize the owner’s personal liability. Yet, they have vastly different approaches to taxation.

Welcome to August’s online income report where I show you how I made money online last month. It’s time to look at this month’s update and track how I did.

Long before he became a fashion icon, he was Ralph Lipschitz, the youngest son of Jewish immigrant parents living in the Bronx.

For many people, it’s surprisingly easy to dismiss “The Donald” as a moronic blowhard. From his bombastic remarks to his over-the-top lifestyle, he often comes off as little more than a rich bully pandering for attention. But is he really?

Want to show up higher in LinkedIn search results, get more visitors (a.k.a., hiring managers) to your profile, and have a more impressive personal brand?

"Most of the people I met on 'Dirty Jobs' and 'Somebody's Gotta Do It,' their level of job satisfaction is very high, but it's not because they're doing the thing they always dreamed of doing," Rowe said. "It's because they've figured out how to do it in a way that pleased them."

Make a list of your outstanding loans balances, interest rates and interest-rate reset da tes, if any. Then, develop an action plan. Here are some points to consider.

You can emerge as an effective trailblazer in your office by being true to yourself and constantly learning. Start by watching these short lectures and embodying their lessons.

The above video is one of my favorite presentations I’ve given in 2009, an opening keynote at the last San Francisco WordCamp, titled “How to Blog without Killing Yourself”. More than 700 people from 32 countries were in attendance, which made for a wonderful experience.

Guy Kawasaki is well known for his support of innovation and entrepreneurship, having been an early employee of Apple, then going on to start, advise, and assist a number of successful technology companies.

The book is full of inspirational, propaganda-style quotes about Facebook's history and values. Until very recently, its contents — even its existence — were largely unknown to outsiders.

A boy grows up poor in Poland, drops out of high school and moves to the U.S. at age 17 without speaking one word of English, becomes a millionaire, loses it all and rebuilds over and over again, each time with more success.

We’ve all heard nuggets of business wisdom from real world geniuses like Mark Zuckerberg and the late Steve Jobs. But, could we also learn a thing or two from the hit BBC series, Sherlock Holmes?

Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor-in-chief and Condé Nast artistic director, should be known for many qualities: fierce intelligence, indomitable leadership, and political power, among them. But perhaps because The Devil Wears Prada was such a memorable movie—or perhaps because she is a woman—Wintour is best known as, well, a bitch.

This is my 3,000th column. I've learned a tremendous amount in writing about investing and the economy. Here are a few of the big lessons.

In this post we’ll take a close look at each of the four emotions, how they form in the brain and the way they can motivate us to surprising actions.

Growth hacks are clever marketing tricks used by startups in order to get more users (often for free or very little cost). Sometimes they are simple, sometimes they are quite technical – but what they have in common is that they can be highly effective. Here are five of the most famous growth hacks of all time.