A visit to the Shoe buying event for the Spring 2010 season is like a peek into the crystal ball. Here’s a quote for you. “Paris Hilton Footwear is perfect for the fashion-forward young woman who wants to look and feel great from head-to-toe, without spending a fortune.” – Paris Hilton

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Here’s one for your chest of quotable quotes.
“If your business is not growing, it is dying.”
“If your business is going sideways, it is dead.”
“If you think your business is going to get killed, it is killed”

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We had a very interesting class workshop on advertising.  Mimi is the moderator.    She tells the class that a $100 advertising campaign is expensive if it is not effective, and a $10,000 campaign is cheap if it brings results and additional profits.  It is the effectiveness that matters, not the cost.
In general, passive marketing [...]

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An old gentleman owned a hot dog stand. His hot dogs were famous for blocks and blocks, maybe even miles and miles. People loved his hot dogs. He had a couple of people working for him and advertised in all of the local papers. He hired kids to put signs on poles and he even [...]

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Wikipedia defines entrepreneurship as the practice of starting new businesses in response to identified business opportunities.
There’s been argument whether entrepreneurship can be taught? and can it be learned?   Many argue that entrepreneurs are born, not made.   Many still argue, not entrepreneurs can be pushed, and one can grow into entrepreneurship when the circumstances are right.
At [...]

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