The folks at Small Business Trends (www.smallbiztrends.com) are hosting their 5th Annual Small Business Book Awards, and someone was kind enough to nominate my book, The Entrepreneur’s Secret to Creating Wealth. I’d like you to go vote, and here’s why:
Back in 2007, the Small Business Trends people noticed that business book reviews and awards were focused on books aimed at corporate audiences. They weren’t able to consistently find helpful information about books written specifically for small business
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If you’re anything like me, you’ve grown weary of all the high drama in Washington these days. First the Fiscal Cliff; now the looming Sequester; next month it’ll be something else. But as we sit on the edge of our seats waiting to find out what will happen tomorrow, I’d like to tell you why the Sequester won’t be the end of the world as we know it.
I did an interview for a local newspaper yesterday, and I told them I don’t expect the Sequester to hurt the SBA or small businesses too badly, as some have predicted. I do think that small business loan production will be down this year, but for other reasons. I also
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If you’re not familiar with Mixergy.com, you really ought to check it out. It was founded by a gentleman named Andrew Warner with the purpose of helping ambitious people like you and I learn from a mix of experienced mentors (including Gary Vaynerchuk, Barbara Corcoran, Jimmy Wales, and more).
Having a mentor can be invaluable, but one person only has so much knowledge and so much experience. Andrew has created a space where I (and you) have the opportunity to hear from lots of people with lots of failures, lots of successes, and lots of experience. And I
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Well, it turns out that Stuart Varney stood me up this morning in retaliation to me snubbing him at his Super Bowl party last week. Instead, I had the great pleasure of talking with Charlie Payne and Liz MacDonald about a tepid economy as the “new normal” and the idea that real estate (commercial real estate in particular) is making a comeback. Watch the clip from this morning and see what you think.
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Stuart Varney invited me to his Super Bowl party last Sunday. I couldn’t make it, so he asked if I could be on his show this week. I told him Friday morning would work for me and that suited him just fine.*
Varney & Co. airs on FOX Business News from 9:20–11:00am EST, and I’m slated to be the first guest tomorrow morning. That’s a busy time of day for most of us — getting to the office, checking email, returning phone calls, changing into your work shoes, etc. — so be sure to set your DVR.
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