What Your Goals For 2009 Ought To Be!

by Neil Patel on January 4, 2009

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2009 new year

2009 has already begun and you probably have a rough idea of some goals that you want to achieve during the New Year. There is nothing wrong with your list, but you probably want to add a few things that will make the rest of your life better.

Here are a few things that you should consider adding that will benefit yourself: [click to continue…]

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How Many Cookie Jars Is Your Hand In?

by Neil Patel on December 31, 2008

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If you want to be rich, you need to start diversifying where you are investing your time and money so that you can increase your odds of being successful. You probably aren’t thinking about diversification because you don’t have that much money, but whether you have 1000 dollars or a million, you can be diversified.

But before I go into different ways you can get your hand into a lot of cookie jars, here are some diversification strategies that you need to know about: [click to continue…]

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Warren Buffett

The smartest financial guy in the world, Warren Buffett, has a saying that goes something like this: you should be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. What Warren means is that if everyone is jumping on the bandwagon you should hesitate because in most cases when something looks too good to be true, it usually is. And when people aren’t jumping on the bandwagon you should take a closer look at it because the reward of doing so could be extremely high.

Right now everyone seems to be fearful, so I would like to share with you a few ways I am trying to be greedy (which will hopefully make me rich). [click to continue…]

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5 Ways You Can Improve Your Blog

by Neil Patel on December 16, 2008

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A blog can do a lot for your career, but if your blog isn’t setup right, you will just be wasting your time. If you want to be a successful blogger, here are some things that you HAVE to do.

Take the time to write a good about page

When someone visits your blog one of the first things they do is go to your about page. If it isn’t compelling, they probably won’t be coming back to your blog. If you want to make your about page compelling you need a few things: [click to continue…]

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homeless bum street

Donald Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, were driving one-day and on the corner of a street they spotted a bum. Donald pointed out to Ivanka, that the bum had more money than he did. She was startled, and she naturally asked him how that was possible. He then went on to explain how the bum had no debt, while he had a lot of it. [click to continue…]

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