Here’s a great article that you need to read. It’s by long-time friend Adrian Ling about how to thrive in a recession. (Not just survive, mind you, but to actually thrive.) Coincidentally it’s titled “Opportunities in Recession.

It was a simple question on a business forum run by a large U.S. bank:
I am planning an ecommerce website to retail paintball products. I’m looking for a name, but the one I came up with is already registered. So I’m stuck, which puts me back at the start. I want a memorable [...]

We all make mistakes — as parents, as partners, as human beings. And although mistakes always cost us something, it can be hard to quantify some of those costs.
In business, however, we CAN measure how much we’re losing to our blunders, oversights and miscalculations.
If you’re already in business the following article by Business Launch Expert [...]

Here’s an important FREE resource that I’ve recommended before:
Hard to Find Seminars is a collection of more than 150 hours of interviews on marketing, selling and other skills you’ll absolutely need for success in business.
My recommendation — go explore this amazing site. It’s the work of Michael Senoff, who started recording and posting all his [...]

Drive down any street in your city, or thumb through the Yellow Pages, and notice all the different kinds of businesses you see.
For every single one of them, someone is failing at it, while someone else is succeeding. And someone is even becoming very wealthy. This is true whether it’s selling used cars cleaning [...]

Sometimes we get so tangled up in how the “experts” say to do things, we forget that we have very good minds of our own.
When Shoko Tamaki retired from teaching music in middle school, she was in her early fifties. That was a bit over three years ago.
Rapidly advancing arthritis was making it increasingly hard [...]

For our fourth day in Hollywood, we decided we’d get an early start. The jet lag is finally wearing off, so we managed to get out on the street by 7:30.
That’s when we learned an important lesson: This is mostly a nightlife town. Stuff happens in the daytime, but not in the early hours [...]