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How to Stop Burn Out
The late-great US basketball coach John Wooden once said, “Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” Too many of us are being burnt out by our jobs. Companies seem to want more and more from their employees. Those European companies, which let their staff work six-hour shifts and take regular holidays,
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How to Successfully Launch Your Start-up Business
My mission this year has been to encourage people to turn their passions into profit – I want people to pursue their dreams and prosper. If you are stuck in a dead-end job, then it’s time to look for something better. It’s time to fulfil your potential and live a bigger life. I’ve been asking
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When is the Right Time to Quit Your Day Job and Focus on Your Passion-Driven Venture?
I’ve said many times that life is too short to stay in a job you hate and be miserable. The better option is to create a job of your dreams based around a personal interest or passion. With the advent of the internet it has never been easier to go into business. By marketing online
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When is it The Right Time to Expand a Business?
Doing the passion for profit tour and meeting so many enthusiastic people ready to take that step and begin a venture has been incredibly inspiring. Last week I wrote about how to maintain your enthusiasm and stay positive when facing obstacles. Today, I want to talk about what you should consider before expanding a successful
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How to Persevere in Business for Faster Success
I’ve been on the road, taking my Passion to Profit tour around Australia and again encouraging people to pursue their dreams and get into business! What impresses me most about the people I’m meeting is their enthusiasm. Their belief in themselves and what they have to offer is inspirational, but the truth is that anyone
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How to Become Online Business Savvy
If you want to turn your passion into profit, you will need to market your new enterprise online. During my recent tour I explained that there are clever people out there who can help you. You can employ someone to do all your social media, build your website, even make snazzy videos of you to
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How Australian Businesses Could Raise Capital through Crowdfunding
Major AnnouncementThe big news in Australian business last week was that the Federal Government introduced legislation that could allow companies to use crowdfunding to raise capital. The Labor Party hasn’t yet said how it will vote on this.Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each contribute relatively small amounts to fund a project, venture
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How to Find Your Brand’s Voice
The internet has really changed the way we communicate. I was speaking to a journalist recently who told me that when he started writing for newspapers thirty years ago the average length of a sentence was 25 words, but now sentences in newspapers and online are getting shorter. Often they only run to 18 words.
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How to Teach Your Children to be Entrepreneurs
The 5-year-old EntrepreneurDid you read the news about a five-year-old girl in London who set up a lemonade stall in a street? There was a music festival nearby and she thought it would be nice to sell cold home-made lemonade to people attending that festival. Within half an hour of opening her stand four council
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How to Become a Self-Starter
This year I’ve had a wonderful time writing and speaking about how to turn your passion into profit. I’ve been encouraging you to take the plunge and convert your hobby, passion or brilliant idea into a thriving business. One of the reasons this resonates with people is because full-time jobs are fast disappearing in Australia
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Is Fear Stopping You From Turning Your Passion into Profit?
Most people who own their own business seem confident and happy. They present a persona of being invincible – their business will never fail and they have total faith in their product. Perhaps the reason you have not started the process of turning your passion into profit is fear – fear of failure, fear of
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The 7 Essential Steps to Developing a Mind that Generates Money-Making Ideas
In my last blog, I wrote about how to come up with a brilliant idea. I also gave you homework, asking you to write down ten good ideas every day no matter how silly or outlandish they first appeared. Do you know that in 1923 a food scientist came up with the idea to convert
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