Posts from — February 2008

Check out the killer interview of Michael Gerber (of E-Myth fame) over at timferris.com: Escaping the Entrepreneurial Seizure: Interview with Michael Gerber and then check out Michael Gerber’s new book, Awaking the Entrepreneur Within. Great stuff.

Michael E. Gerber

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“A business without a dream is like a life without a purpose.”
—Michael Gerber

Dream • Vision • Purpose • Mission

These words have been defining the life of Michael Gerber, bestselling author and international small business guru. He created E-Myth Worldwide in 1977 to transform the way that small business owners grow their companies. Now he’s created In The Dreaming Room as a place where entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs come to discover how to make their dreams a reality.

Michael’s Dream: to inspire people to dream by awakening the entrepreneur within them.

Michael’s Vision: to be the authority for helping dreamers everywhere create the small businesses they once could only imagine.

Michael’s Purpose: to transform the lives of ordinary people by providing them with the thrill of creation while creating the means to generate their own and others’ economic freedom.

Michael’s Mission: to create a turnkey system for awakening the entrepreneur within every person who wishes to go into business for themselves, while providing them with the support for doing it.

And he has done it. In Awakening the Entrepreneur Within you are invited into the Dreaming Room, where your own entrepreneurial dreams will come alive and become reality. Michael will help you shape your dream into a viable, economically successful company! As he writes: “It is time to dream. It is time to care about something bigger than you. It is time to imagine something sorely needed in the world—the world you live in—that somebody would pay to have. It is time to look around you and ask yourself, ‘What’s missing in this picture?’”

If you see something missing in your world, it’s time to start dreaming. Let Michael Gerber welcome you to the Dreaming Room.

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Tim Ferris’s Four Hour Work Week is an unconventional and inspirational book … a must read, even if you don’t desire constant adventuring nor VERY minimal working hours.

Tim presents the following “Core Four” books as MUST READS:

David Schwartz

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Millions of people throughout the world have improved their lives using The Magic of Thinking Big. Dr. David J. Schwartz, long regarded as one of the foremost experts on motivation, will help you sell better, manage better, earn more money, and — most important of all — find greater happiness and peace of mind.

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Dan S. Kennedy

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In this book, Dan Kennedy provides many examples on how to turn an idea into cash. The examples are from the real world and are drawn directly from his experience as a highly paid consultant. An easy read and well worth the investment.

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Michael E. Gerber

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In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.

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Rolf Potts

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Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life — from six weeks to four months to two years — to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.

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Daniel Grissom

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STEP UP! - 6 steps make 80% of the difference in the improvement and achievement of superior results. YOUR COMPETITION HAS STEPPED-UP, SHOULD YOU? In STEP UP! Daniel identifies the critical challenges facing sellers,street-smart strategies and shows you how to work smarter, not harder. As well, the author provides a collection of “classic quotes” from other leaders in the field of excellence including his mom. Every idea, tip and suggestion in this book is focused on helping individuals and organizations improve their performance and results. All of the content is the result of many years of research, interviews and personal experience. So, the advice is not mere theory; it’s the real deal on results! It’s the book for achieving business excellence. for achieving business excellence.

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Edward de Bono

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an amazon.com customer says:
Great Easy Read
I would recommend this book to students of every discipline, as well as non-students. This book has great examples for each lateral thinking concept. It’s one of those feel-good books that can be motivating and empowering.

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Man I love the blog from the Trizle folks. They make business fun and deliver no-BS advice. They posted another great one today:

How To Work Your Performers

Their advice of paying 1.5X and asking me to do double would have worked on me when I was a star performer at a small company!

Chic Thompson

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Jordan Adler

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What will this book do for you?

-Have you ever wondered whether the average person can really make it big in network marketing?
-Have the secrets to success in network marketing always been a mystery to you?
-Have you given up on your dream lifestyle because it just seems too difficult or too far out of reach?

Beach Money shows you that the freedom you desire is closer than you have ever imagined. Jordan’s stories will inspire you to see the possibilities that are well within your reach.

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Ryan P. Allis

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springq.com says: The great inspirational story of Ryan Allis.

Do You Want to Become a Multi-Millionaire Entrepreneur? Here’s How.

By the time Ryan Allis had reached the age of twenty-one, he had achieved the financial goal most people just dream about: He made built his company to one million in sales. Allis has since grown his company iContact Corp., a provider of Web-based email marketing and online communication softwares, to $10 million per year in sales, and has helped numerous clients increase their sales dramatically.

Now Allis shares the secrets of his lightning-fast success with you. In Zero to One Million, he details his simple yet innovative evaluation system of “Market-Advantages-Return” to help you determine if your business idea is viable. Once you have a solid foundation, you can apply his advice for successfully running your business-from initial planning to managing high-speed growth.

• Evaluate your business idea using the innovative MAR system
• Write a business plan sure to excite your investors
• Launch your company with minimal expenditure
• Boost online sales using cutting-edge marketing strategies
• Watch all your hard work transform into millions

Did you know that eighty-one percent of millionaires are entrepreneurs? Join the pantheon of successful businessmen and women with Zero to One Million.

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Richard Luecke

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From the basics of writing a business plan to the challenges of developing a marketing and sales program, this is the essential resource for success with a new venture

Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, this concise guide is carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience, and will prove especially valuable for the new manager.

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