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- ***The Smartest Decision You Will Ever Make - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVInformation that can change your life from our free special report, The 10 Golden Rules for Buying a Business If you spend any time on this blog, you'll soon catch the excitement about starting your own business. Entrepreneurship is so hot here, it's like a bonfire. Today, I'd like to throw a ...
Views: 663 - ***Master Your Marketing, Claim Your Success - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVIt takes more than salespeople to assure your long-term success. You have started a new company. Now how are you going to get customers to open their wallets and spend their money on what you have to sell? If your answer to that question was, "I'll hire a sales staff" or, "I'll start ...
Views: 658 - ***The Best Gift You Can Ever Buy for Yourself: A Business of Your Own! - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVIf you have any desire to be in business for yourself, then now’s the time to make your move! In fact, there has never been a better time to take that step. So this year, buy yourself the greatest gift of all - a business of your own! Over the past year, I’ve met and spoken with thousands of ...
Views: 658 - ***How Healthy Is Your Enterprise? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOV
Views: 654 - ***Having Problems Means You're Alive - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from John AOVIt’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. -- Albert Einstein Problems are a mind exercise. Problems can be learning opportunities. The way you describe a problem determines your ability to solve it. Some people play chess. They see it as a game. It's also an ...
Views: 646 - ***It's Better to Be the Boss - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVWith more employees getting shoddy treatment or worse from their employers these days, there is little doubt that it really is better to be the boss today. And for mostof us, the best way to become the boss is to buy a business. Within the last week alone, I have read three disturbing articles ...
Views: 643 - ***Bootstrap Your Way to Startup Success - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVBootstrapping is the process of conserving financial resources to the extreme during a business’s startup phase. It means pulling yourself up by your bootstraps by doing most of the work yourself. Because you want to go into any new business enterprise with your eyes wide open, let’s take a ...
Views: 641 - ***The Art of Hiring the Best - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from John AOVAsk most business leaders what the real key to their long-term success is and they’ll tell you it’s their people. You can operate in a hot market, use the most cutting-edge technology, or have a competitive product concept, but without the ability to hire and keep the right amount of passionate ...
Views: 635 - ***To Start Your Future, You Need to Forget Your Past - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from John AOVHave you noticed that people who were great students in school often find it difficult to get started in the world of business? They usually get off to a very sluggish start. I think there is a logical explanation for that. It is simply that the skills people learn to succeed in school don’t ...
Views: 632 - ***Walk-Away Willpower - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVWe often read and hear a lot about the importance of “sticking with it” and “never quitting,” but sometimes, deciding not to proceed can be just as valuable as going further. As Donald Trump put it in The Trump Way to Wealth (https://www.trumpuniversity.com/start/wealthcreation/twtw.cfm), “I'm ...
Views: 630 - ***Why Starting a Business Remains the Path to Success - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOV--Secrets of the Self-Made,-- an interactive multi-media article on Forbes.com, offers a revealing glimpse into the minds of some of America's entrepreneurial billionaires. Among the more interesting information, for me, are the descriptions that these ultra-rich individuals share about their ...
Views: 630 - ***Build Something of Value Every Day - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from John AOVOne day, when I was about 12, I went down to my carpenter grandfather’s basement workshop. “You should start earning your own money,” he said. “If you clean up this workshop, I will pay you what it’s worth.” So I spent the next three hours making that place shine. I swept up all the wood ...
Views: 627 - ***Make Your Networking Work - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from John AOVWhen it comes to big pictures, networking is the way you link your vision for your business and career to those of the rest of the world. If you are on track in your business and professional life, you network every day, forging and enhancing connections that will reap future ...
Views: 621 - ***The Seven Critical Traits of Top Entrepreneurs - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVAs President of Trump University, I meet often with our Chairman, Donald J. Trump. I never forget that just about every businessperson in the world would envy me that opportunity. Who wouldn’t want to sit down with Donald J. Trump to get his expert advice on building an enterprise? This ...
Views: 621 - ***Toot Your Horn to Get Ahead - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from John AOVSuccessful professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs have a lot in common. One of those commonalities is an artful approach to letting others know about what they do, how they do it, and why customers, clients, and prospects will find value in doing business with them. It's not about ...
Views: 619 - ***Nine Simple Secrets of Great Advertising - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVThe television show I was watching last night was punctuated by some pretty crazy ads. I saw flying cars and a talking toilet. To judge from those ads, you might think that you need to be a creative advertising genius to get your customers to buy anything from you. Not so. These classic ...
Views: 616 - ***Plan Your Business As You Go - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2009 from John AOVAs we roll into 2008, it’s time to get your business plan written. As I discussed recently on the Trump Blog, I am the developer of a new approach to the process that I call "plan-as-you-go" business planning. Today, I’d like to explain it in a little more detail. For convenience, let's call it ...
Views: 615 - ***Don't Leave Your Customers Stuck on the Runway - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVCustomer service lessons from the JetBlue disaster JetBlue is still recovering from its February fiasco at JFK Airport in New York. You remember - snow and extreme cold brought air travel to a standstill, but JetBlue decided to keep flying anyway. Its planes rolled out onto the tarmac and got ...
Views: 614 - ***Seven Ways to Tell if Starting a Business Will Work for You - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVContrary to what you might think, most successful entrepreneurs enjoy a sense of calm control over their own lives. Compared with people who spend their lives working for other people, subject to whims not remotely under their control, entrepreneurs have a much better shot at happiness and inner ...
Views: 612 - ***Essential Steps to Protect Your Business Assets - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVVital information from the new book Trump University Wealth Building 101: Your First 90 Days on the Path to Prosperity You spend years building a company and then one day a visitor falls in your parking lot, breaks her hip and sues you. Is it a problem you can settle out of court, a problem ...
Views: 611 - ***Think Like an Entrepreneur: Lessons from Trump University Students - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVSixty percent of all Americans are dreaming about starting their own businesses. Why? What's their motivation? I recently heard some fascinating answers to that question while I was listening to recorded transcripts from The Entrepreneur's Success Codes, a Trump University course that's taught ...
Views: 611 - ***Classifying Your Income: tax-minimizing advice from the new book, Trump University Asset Protection 101 - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2009 from John AOVThe good news is, you made money in 2007. Hopefully, a lot of it. But do you understand that not all the dollars you earned are the same in the eyes of the IRS? Until you define the kind of income each of those dollars represents to the tax collector, you stand little chance of minimizing the ...
Views: 607 - ***Two Marketing Mistakes that Kill New Businesses - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVWhat are the most disastrous marketing mistakes that new entrepreneurs make? Now that our Marketing Mastery Program is entering its second successful year and we have worked with hundreds of students, we can answer that question with some certainty. The two marketing problems that most new ...
Views: 607 - ***Know Your Customer, Create Your Success - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVGood morning, Mr. or Ms. Entrepreneur. I'd like to ask you a very basic question today: Do you know who your customers are? That's an interesting question, because there are so many ways to answer it. As an experiment, I asked our Executive Editor Barry Lenson to call three entrepreneurs and ...
Views: 606 - ***The Only Risk-Free Way to Become an Entrepreneur - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVDo a simple experiment this morning. Go to the search engine of your choice and search for the term “businesses for sale.” You are going to be astonished by what you find. Businesses are changing hands at an amazing rate in virtually every area of the United States, and thousands of attractive ...
Views: 606 - ***Starting a Business is Easy. Staying in Business is Hard! - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVLet The Entrepreneurship Mastery Program make your start-up a success How many people start new companies every month? Who are they? Just yesterday I was reviewing some data from The Kauffman Foundation that answers those questions, and more: 550,000 Americans start new businesses every ...
Views: 605 - ***Change Your Life in Three Days - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVTrump University Takes Live Learning a Level Higher Since the day Trump University opened its doors, students have been asking us to add more live instruction. We are starting now, with a new program of three-day seminars that we are calling Immersive Retreats. These live retreats have been ...
Views: 603 - ***When You Own a Business, You Own Your Life - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVSeveral weeks ago I had a conversation with Larry Gessner, a very active member of the Trump University community. If you spend any time on our Discussion Boards, you're already familiar with Larry's keen insights about what it takes to be a successful businessperson and entrepreneur. Larry ...
Views: 601 - ***Success Comes from Making the Numbers Work - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOV"Prices of existing homes fell for the first time in 11 years and the backlog of available homes for sale was at its highest since current measures began, underlining the significant slowdown in the housing market." - "US Housing Slowdown Continues," by Daniel Pimlott and Michael Mackenzie, ...
Views: 600 - ***The Streamlined, Painless Way to Create Your Business Plan - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2009 from John AOVAn interview with business-planning guru Tim Berry When Trump University was searching for the best business plan software to integrate into our Entrepreneurship Mastery Program, we found a blockbuster program in Business Plan Pro. Little did we know that it was the brainchild of a ...
Views: 598 - ***Spend Your Marketing Dollars the Smart Way - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVGreat advertising doesn't have to be expensive. Consider these low-cost, highly effective marketing strategies that Prof. Don Sexton teaches in his Marketing Mastery Program at Trump University: Identify your competitors’ weaknesses and target them directly. Be the only car dealership dealer ...
Views: 596 - ***Do You Need a Professional Valuation Before Buying a Business? - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVFor most small businesses, hiring a professional to perform a valuation is not necessary. First of all it is expensive, and more often than not, it simply does not reflect reality. For example, I recently read a valuation on a local company handling specialized telecom components in a very ...
Views: 594 - ***Get Off Your Duff and Do It in 2008 - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2009 from John AOVWhen I was researching my book Good Stress, Bad Stress, a man named Bill told me an interesting story. Only a few months earlier, he had been virtually paralyzed by fear. He had piled up tons of debt. He couldn’t pay the credit-card bills that rolled in every month. And to make it all worse, ...
Views: 594 - ***Why Starting a Business Is Your First Step toward Staggering Wealth - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVIf you take a look at the Forbes 400 List of Wealthiest Americans, you will see that virtually every person on the list got there by being an entrepreneur. From Bill Gates to Warren Buffet to Michael Dell to our own Donald J. Trump, the truth is self-evident. People get rich by starting their ...
Views: 593 - ***Your Small Company Can Market as Effectively as the Big Boys - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVIf you're a small business owner, the word “marketing” can be scary. How can you compete with the big companies in your line of business? How can you catch up with competitors who have a head start in the race for customers? The good news is, you don’t have to compete with them. You can set ...
Views: 590 - ***Your Marketing Is Your Company - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVIn my blog post this morning, I would like to confront a rampant misconception about marketing. It is that marketing is something that a company does - just another activity like HR, accounting, training or product development. I would like to blow that misconception to bits. Because marketing ...
Views: 585 - ***Sell the World Who You Really Are - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVBedrock marketing insights from the author of Trump University Marketing 101 When I was growing up, my family had a business installing water systems for country clubs, farms and housing developments. Whenever I went and worked alongside my father at those places, I could see how much people ...
Views: 578 - ***Triple Your Income from the Customers You Already Have - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVYou probably don’t think of your customers as expenses. But if you add up all the money you spent to win their business, you will discover how costly they really are. To win them, you spent a lot of money on advertising, salespeople, a Website and other marketing initiatives too. Customers are ...
Views: 574 - ***Invest in Yourself - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2009 from John AOVWhat's the most profitable investment you can make? Some people would tell you it's the stock market. Other people would point to mutual funds, precious metals or municipal bonds. Make no mistake, all those investments can offer you a great payback. But there is another investment that ...
Views: 571 - ***The Foundations of Courage - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from John AOVTrust yourself. When danger comes, you will have what it takes to deal with it. In his book Lost and Found, Dr. Arthur Caliandro writes that when he was a little boy, he and his father had a favorite game. Arthur would stand three or four steps up the stairs in their home. His father would ...
Views: 568 - ***When You Really Have to Say, "You're Fired!" - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2009 from John AOVAlthough it’s become one of my signatures, firing people is not something I enjoy doing. In reality, I’d rather hire really great employees in the first place so that firing them is something I never plan on doing. But in reality, managers are often placed in tough situations when they have to ...
Views: 541 - ***What Public Relations Gives You that Advertising Never Can - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVA post on this blog a few weeks ago described the marketing traction that small businesses can develop by sending out press releases to local media. Today, I would like to add to that strategy. The first step is to have your company contribute to the quality of life in your community. You could ...
Views: 525 - ***The Great Marketing Information Giveaway - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from John AOVYou’ll be glad that you stopped by today, because Trump University is giving away some of the most powerful marketing ideas available anywhere - information that can make your enterprise vastly successful in today’s competitive marketplace. Better yet, we are not giving away this information ...
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