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So I did a little test to see how well I could turn 50 dollars into 1,000. I gave myself a week time frame and I asked a young 11 year old if he wanted to make 8 bucks an hour selling door to door. (THIS WAS AN EXPERIMENT) I bought various foods for about 25 cents each and he would sell them for a dollar. It ended up he would easily sell about 30 bars an hour bringing me in 14.5 an hr and himself his 8. It worked magnificently and he did this amazing for the first few days. I decided to change it...

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This is a truth of the Internet: When traffic comes to your site without focused intent, it bounces.

75% of all unfocused visitors leave within three seconds.

Any site, anywhere, anytime. 75% bounce rate within three seconds.

By unfocused, I mean people who visit via Digg or Stumbleupon or even a typical Google search. If your site is spammy or clearly selling something, the number is certainly higher. If you’re getting traffic because you have a clever...

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"Big promises": treating people with respect, improving self-esteem, delivering results, contacting as often as you say you will but not more, including side effects in your planning, delivering joy, meeting spec, being on time, connecting people to one another, delivering consistency, offering value and on and on. Caring. The stories involved in your promises matter. That's often what people are buying.

I have found especially with talking to people on here, that most of...

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You all know exactly what I am talking about. "THEM" they are the people that do what we seemingly have not yet done or cannot do. They have started the Starbucks and Wal-marts of the world. Does it have so much to do with luck or with hard work? Do either of those even play a role in the success of a company?

All of these are questions that people ask themselves daily. My answer is do what you are happy with. Growing a company should be a process not something that just...

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