Last month I ran into a Quick Sprout reader at the Entrepreneur Magazine conference in Miami. Every time I meet a Quick Sprout reader, the first thing I ask is:
What do you do?
Within seconds Juan got into his life story and explained how he kind is a maid, but makes $150,000 a year. And once I heard $150,000, I instantly thought how does a maid make that much money?
Naturally I started to dig deeper and I realized that he had an amazing life story that I have to share with all of you. So here goes… [click to continue…]
Just the other day I was on Facebook and I noticed someone talking about a really successful person that went to my high school. So naturally, I clicked on their profile to see what he was up to.
The person is a genius, and I doubt they ever got less than an A in a class. After high school they attended Stanford and landed some successful positions at companies like Microsoft and Google.
If you looked at this person’s resume you’d be impressed, I’m sure. They’re smart, ambitious, and hard working. You would think the person is probably the most successful person from their high school class, right?
Well, they aren’t. The most successful person in that high school class was my cousin. How can this be? It isn’t due to grades because my cousin rarely got As… and he didn’t do well on his SATs. He also didn’t graduate from a 4-year university.
So why is my cousin the most successful person of his high school class? He hustled harder. Instead of going to college, he spent the first few years working in the corporate world and within 3 years he was able to get his salary up to $120,000 a year by helping corporations leverage search engines.
After that he started his own marketing agency that is doing very well and now he gets to work with cool companies like SalesForce, CafePress, Mint.com, and Yahoo.
So what’s the moral of the story? You don’t have to be that smart to be a successful entrepreneur, you just have to be smart enough.
Here are some great qualities my cousin possesses and you need if you want to succeed as an entrepreneur: [click to continue…]
As you’ve probably already heard, Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. He will be remembered as one of the greatest visionaries ever. What he did for the technological as well as entrepreneurial world, will never be forgotten.
Although I’m young and haven’t been following Steve Jobs’ career as intently as others, he has taught me a lot about business in the last 5 years. Here are 11 things I’ll never forget that Steve Jobs taught me: [click to continue…]
Ever wonder what companies like Apple or Nike did to become world-wide icons? Or how they created devoted followers? Their success almost seems like a miracle…
But trust me, it’s not. They’re success can be copied!
Here are 8 ideas that can inspire you to create marketing campaigns that generate tremendous buzz, resonate with people and eventually become a part of your customers’ life. [click to continue…]
Isn’t running a startup fun? Well it is for a while, but unless you can figure out a way to make money you wont last very long.
Whether you are venture funded or you’ve bootstrapped your company, you have to figure out how to turn your startup into a real business. Although it my seem inconceivable, it’s not impossible.
Here are 7 tactics that will help turn your startup into a real company: [click to continue…]
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