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| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People This is my summary of the book. The book has been written almost 2 decades ago and has been sold 150 million copies worldwide. Whenever I read books like this (the others are books from Kiyosaki e.g... |
| Lessons from 1 Million Euro Lamborghinis That Sell Like Hotcakes International Herald Tribune reported a news about how Lamborghini sold their luxury car like hot cakes when they set an easy-to-remember-price for their new car. Lesson for the rest of us Sometime a.. |
| Facebook - The Difficulty of Monetising the Web Visitors (1) CNN Money ran an article about the Social Network website, Facebook and the difficulty in turning web visitors into paying customers. Facebook and Myspace are popular example of social network sites.. |
| Ready to Buy a Chinese Car? The Chery A1 is a cute little car. It`s a four-door hatchback, with a 1.3-liter engine, dual air bags and antilock brakes. It may look cheap, but remember how the Japanese entered the American car.. |
| Don`t Let e-mails Kill Your Productivity! Email used to be the killer apps that speed up the spread of the internet in the 90s. Nowadays, email has become a must in every mordern worker`s life. The problem is Spam. Unsolicited emails.. |
| Business Idea: Turn Popular Website into a Multimillion Dollar Business It started with Dog.com and followed by a series of other generic but specific like Bird.com, Fish.com, Ferret.com and Horse.com. Founders of Pets United, got into e-commerce in 2002 after buying out.. |
| Expanding Your Business: Welcome to No-Man`s Land Somewhere between small and big is a place where many companies get lost. Your organization can`t keep pace with demand. Existing customers start to complain. Longtime & underachieve workers need.. |
| Business Secret Success? Offer Solution, Not Technology Jargons Inc Magazine has made a list of 500 selected companies. Most may sound new to us, but for me is to take a look at the stats of the companies they selected. The word "Solution" encapsulates.. |
| Video Conferencing, A Second Look. Videoconferencing was supposed to put an end to corporate travel. But positioning people in front of a camera, fiddling endlessly with controls, poor video and voice quality makes the whole experience.. |
| The Art of Business Execution (1) Most entrepreneurs think that raising money is the hard part. They`re wrong. The real work begins after you raise money because then you have to execute & run the business. In this article (link.. |
| Future Business Trend? Think of Bottled Water. Thirty years ago, bottled water barely existed as a business in the United States. In 2006, the American spent more bottled water than they spent on iPods or movie, at 15 billion. It will be 16.. |
| Meet Carlos Slim, The Richest Man in the World Today (5) The son of a Mexico City shopkeeper has built a staggering 59 billion fortune. Fortune`s Stephanie Mehta tells the inside story of how he made it to the top. Carlos (67 yrs old) caught me off guard... |
| Double Your Salary in 10 Years! "By boosting your annual raise by just 2, you can double your salary in a decade" In Seven Years to Seven Figures, author Michael Masterson says that higher-ups really take notice of those.. |
| How to Delegate and Keep Control of the Company? "Defining your staff’s roles and consistently handing off work to the right person are must-dos for business success." My quick & simple definition of "Delegating".. |
| Interruption during work: Avoid wasting employees time Work interruptions cost the U.S. economy at least 650 billion a year. Analysts reckon that 28 percent of the typical knowledge worker`s day, or 2.1 hours, is consumed by unnecessary interruptions and.. |
| Lessons From Legendary Speakers 1. Winston Churchill As Prime Minister of England during World War II, Churchill gave his most electrifying speeches over the radio. He spent weeks crafting them with a rhetorical precision that is.. |
| How Microsoft conquered China Or is it the other way around? Fortune`s David Kirkpatrick goes on the road to Beijing with Bill Gates, who threw his business model out the window. While most would count themselves lucky to talk.. |
| Laurence Graff - The King of Diamond How a poor boy from London`s East End became the most exclusive diamond merchant you`ve never heard of. The 69-year-old Laurence Graff climbed from scrubbing toilets in a Hatton Garden workshop to the helm of a worldwide brand with 15 stores in the globe` |
| Lessons from Marc Fleury, who sold his company for USD 350 Million. In the open source software world, Marc Fleury needs no introduction. He started developing a precursor to JBoss (a java-based software) in 1999 after leaving Sun Microsystem and then sold his company.. |
| The booming children`s market is serious business While kids hold the key to our future, they also control their parents` purse strings. American families spend approximately 115.6 billion a year on their children for food, clothing, personal-care.. |
| So, You`re Thinking of Starting a New Business? (2) First the doom and gloom: The Statistics – Some figures suggest that 93 percent of small businesses fail in their first year, and of the 7 percent that survive, only half of those will make it.. |
| 100 Highest Paid Celebrities (3) The world`s most powerful and best-paid movie stars, musicians and athletes. It was a year of conquest in Hollywood. The worldwide box office soared to a record 25.8 billion, buoyed by global.. |
| How Do Investors Make Money? Learning how returns are allocated among the key players could increase your chances for funding. When you`re raising money for your startup, it helps to understand how the investors you`re pitching.. |
| 10 Years later: A Review of the Asian financial crisis Ten years after Asia`s financial crisis, the region is booming again. Has it fully recovered or are economic mistakes being repeated? IT IS an unhappy anniversary: July 2nd 1997, the official start.. |
| Oops! Hong Kong is hardly dead Well, we were wrong. Back in 1995, Fortune predicted the downfall of Hong Kong once it was handed over to China. But in 2007, the city is thriving more than ever, says Fortune`s Sheridan Prasso. In.. |
| Turn Services into Product Increase Business with Tangible Products. One of the biggest challenges in selling professional services is that what you are offering is intangible. Your product can`t be seen, touched, or tasted. .. |
| How to Launch a Cool, Profitable & low-risk Business Four legendary company founders tell four promising entrepreneurs a thing or two about running a business. A start-up`s business plan is kind of like a movie trailer. Everybody knows that it is a.. |
| How to get rich in America (1) Eight entrepreneurs and 8 success stories: proof that you don`t need a lot of money to make a go of it, but you do have to be smart about how you invest your energy. "If you must borrow from.. |
| America`s Best And Worst Paying Jobs (4) "Why do financially pushy parents want their children to marry doctors?" Because, as Willie Sutton said of banks, that is where the money is. Still is. The medical profession continues to.. |
| Bill Gates Goes Back to School (2) Now, at 51, Gates has gone back to Harvard, effectively closing the loop between Bills 1.0 and 2.0. He delivers the commencement address at Harvard on June 7 at 3:30 p.m. and accepts an honorary.. |
| Japan`s 40 Richest (1) The world`s second-largest economy may be on the rebound, but you wouldn`t know it from looking at our third annual list of Japan`s 40 Richest. The group`s total net worth is 79.2 billion, down from.. |
| Innovation: Lessons from Apple FOR a company that looked doomed a decade ago, it has been quite a comeback. Today Apple is literally an iconic company. Look at your iPod: the company name appears only in the small print. Some of.. |
| Sell It! What Really Works (1) The bottom line is that your business comes down to one thing: sales. That`s why we went straight to the source--the experts, entrepreneurs and even customers--to find out what really works. How to.. |
| Forbes: Malaysia`s 40 Richest (7) Shiok, the Malay word for fantastic, is an apt word to describe the past 12 months for Malaysia`s 40 Richest. It has been a remarkably good year for nearly everyone on our second annual list, thanks.. |
| 16 Hot Internet Businesses for You to Copy! (1) Start Up or Diversify Your Business Online with One or More of These Cutting Edge E-Businesses Smaller companies (those with fewer than 10 employees) benefit most from being online. These statistics.. |
| How to Kill a Great Idea! (How Friendster failed while Myspace & Facebook succeed). Jonathan Abrams created the first online social network and enlisted Silicon Valley`s best and brightest to run it. Yet Friendster flamed.. |
| Become an Infopreneur to Generate Revenue & Diversify (1) An entrepreneur who sells information is known as an Infopreneur. Many people have created fortunes simply by selling information products. An info product can be designed based upon just about any.. |
| Sniffing out a possible scam Someone at work recently recommended I put some money into a company called Legisi.com - not an investment, but a loan. I wonder if you are familiar with this. Answer Guy had never heard of.. |
| China`s $1.2 trillion cash hoard With 1.2 trillion in reserves, most of it in dollar-backed assets, China plans to launch the world`s largest investment fund. It could play havoc with the U.S. economy. China, Long recognized as the.. |
| How We Did It: 21 Tales of Mega-Success (1) Get inspired by these entrepreneurs and their success stories in this slideshow. 1. Flickr What they do: run one of the most popular sites on the Web, a free online photo-sharing service 2. Barefoot.. |