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John on August 1st, 2010

If I told you that in the last 12 months the Taxman bought me a nice big $1,700 telescope, a camera, a camcorder and a whole collection of things would you want to know more? In fact this year he bought me close on $15,000 worth of things. This year I am expecting something similar. [...]

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John on July 14th, 2010

The fact of the matter is that most peoples ventures end up in failure. The word “Fail” may be a strong word and you may prefer me to say something else as a euphemism, but under my terms they are failures. The statistics show that most people who have successful businesses have had at least one failed venture behind them. Just about every entrepreneur will have a history of things that did not succeed…

There are many possible specific reasons for business failure but there are two basic general reasons and they are “Lack of Preparation” and “Not Listening Enough”…

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John on July 12th, 2010

So you don’t have something to sell. You may not even know what it is that you want to sell. You may not even know what sort of business that you want.

You just know that you want to make money.

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John on July 8th, 2010

For a while it seemed to me that every garage workshop that I visited had a sign up somewhere that said something like: “You can have: Quick, Cheap and Good. Pick any two” What they are saying is that you can have your repair Quick and Cheap but it won’t be Good. Alternatively you can [...]

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John on June 27th, 2010

I have been meaning to create this site for a while. I guess that I have been just too busy to do it before now but I feel it is quite important to me to be able to do this. It is important because I have received a lot from the Internet and in the [...]

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