May 2011

robert de niro

From Meet the Fockers to Casino to Limitless, Robert De Niro is one of the most successful actors in the world. The next time you are watching one of his movies, do me a favor and don’t just watch them for pure entertainment, but watch them as a source of education.

Although Mr. De Niro is well known mainly for his acting abilities, you can actually learn a lot about business from his movies as well.

If you don’t believe it, just look at some of his movie quotes… [click to continue…]

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happy employee

Sooner or later you’re going to have employees. If you want to create a large company, you’ll have no choice but to hire people to help you out.

Although hiring employees may sound simple, you’ll quickly learn that no one will care for your company as much as you nor will they work as hard as you. Every once in a while you may find some rock star talent to help you out, but those won’t be the majority of the people that build up your team.

So how do you get people to work really hard? Well, you have to push them to their limits, yet keep them motivated or else they’ll get burned out and quit. Here are 7 tactics I use to push employees to their limits while still keeping them motivated and happy. [click to continue…]

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big deal

When it comes to selling, I am terrible at it. If you told me to convince you to buy a red plastic cup, I wouldn’t be able to. But if you told me to sell Walmart a million of these red plastic cups, it’s very likely I would be able to.

Over the years I learned that although I suck at selling products to individuals, I am great at closing big deals with businesses. As an entrepreneur I have closed deals ranging from $240,000 a year to even $1,200,000.

Aside from knowing what you are going to sell, here are the 5 tactics you must use if you want to close big deals. [click to continue…]

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