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Your Customer Is Your Boss

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Apple, Competition, Creativity, Customer Objections, Customer Service, Facebook, IBM, Misconceptions, Research, Social Media, Software, Software Development, Strategy, Success, Teamwork
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The customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason. —Jerry Harvey, inventor, entrepreneur Everyone talks about how entrepreneurship affords you freedom and independence to do what you want. No longer do you have to suffer the rigid and long hours of corporate America. Nor do you have a […]

View Post Apple, Bank of America, BlackBerry, Circuit City, Facebook, IBM, Jerry Harvey, likes, Verizon Wireless, Wells Fargo

How to Leverage Resources Like a CEO

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in College, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Creativity, Fortune, Making Deals, Marketing, Mentor, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Skills, Strategy, Success, Uncategorized

People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. —Robert T. Kiyosaki, author, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. When I started my media company, very few prospects wanted to buy advertisements. They saw the tremendous value in my media outlets, but always tried to leverage what they had instead of paying. For example, I approached […]

View Post College, Fila, Leverage, Mentor, Resources, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Selling

Don’t Underestimate Your Competition

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Business Plan, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Landscape, Fear, Harvard University, Misconceptions, Risk, Strategy

I hate competition. —Marat Safin, tennis champion, Russian politician When entrepreneurs approach me to invest in their companies, I naturally want to know who their competitors are. It’s a basic question that any investor would ask. Some entrepreneurs answer the question thoroughly and confidently. They are not afraid to acknowledge what the competitive landscape looks […]

View Post Blockbuster, Harvard University, Marat Safin, N. Gregory Mankiw, Netflix

An Idea’s Execution, Not Its Uniqueness, Yields Success

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Accomplishment, Business Plan, Calculated Risk, College, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Landscape, Courage, Creativity, Dreams, Facebook, Harvard University, Marketing, Mavericks, Patent, Productivity, Risk, Serial Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley

Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. —Sue Grafton, author I hate to rain on your parade, but your idea is not special. There are likely other entrepreneurs or companies with “your” idea, equally inspired to dominate the business world and to make millions. And when your […]

View Post Atlanta, Grand Canyon, Groupon, Harvard University, LinkedIn, Mark Zuckerberg, MSNBC.com, Noam Wasserman, Reid Hoffman, Silicon Valley, Sue Grafton

How to Prevent Burnout and Increase Productivity

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Bill Gates, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Landscape, Facebook, Fear, Inspiration, Management, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Preparation, Productivity, Steve Jobs, Strategy, Teamwork

Two heads are better than one. —John Heywood, English playwright. One of my favorite events in the Summer Olympic Games is the 4×100 meter relay. In this event, a team runs 400 meters total, once around a regulation athletics track, with four teammates running 100 meters each. Currently, Jamaica holds the world record time of […]

View Post Bill Gates, Eduardo Saverin, Fear, Google, Greed, Jamaica, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Johnson, Olympic Games, Olympics, OmniPublisher, Paul Allen, Pride, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Track & Field, Usain Bolt, World Record, Yohan Blake

4 Common Reasons Your Business Could Fail

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Competition, Competitive Landscape, Strategy

Competition is very good. . . . It’s what makes one strive to be better. —Christine Lahti, actress, film director. Ninety-five percent of the time, arrogance leads entrepreneurs to believe that they have no competition in the marketplace. However, on rare occasions, arrogance isn’t the true cause of this belief. Instead, arrogance is an effect […]

View Post Back to the Future, Contrave, DeLorean, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, New York Times, Orexigen Therapeutics, Road and Track, Segway, Zipcar

You’re in Sales, Whether You Want to Be or Not

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Accomplishment, Apple, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Landscape, Facebook, Failure, Making Deals, Management, Mark Zuckerberg, Marketing, Misconceptions, Risk, Sales, Serial Entrepreneurship, Software, Software Development, Strategy, Success

Timid salesmen have skinny kids. —Zig Ziglar, author, motivational speaker Reality hit us like a Mack truck and stopped us dead in our tracks. Although we reached our goal of creating OmniPublisher, one of the first content management systems built specifically for newspapers and other periodicals, we realized that we forgot to include the most […]

View Post Apple, Eduardo Saverin, Facebook, George Cloutier, Goldman Sachs, Mack Truck, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, OmniPublisher, Pandora, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Twitter, Webvan, Zig Ziglar

Maximize Your Value

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Apple, Business Plan, Calculated Risk, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Landscape, Courage, Customer Objections, Making Deals, Marketing, Negotiation, Networking, Premium, Price, Self-Discipline, Success, Talent

Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. —Steve Jobs, cofounder, Apple As a sophomore in college, I cofounded a Latin jazz band called Río Negro with a Puerto Rican friend of mine who played congas. We loved everything about Latin music and […]

View Post Apple, Atlanta, Bill Clinton, Latin Jazz, Rio Negro, Steve Jobs, Super Bowl

Spend the Majority of Your Time with People Smarter Than You

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in CEOs, Competition, Courage, Strategy, Success

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. —Proverbs 27:17 The average person is intimidated by smart people. I know firsthand: Whenever people find out what I scored on an SAT exam, they are shocked. (I have very proud relatives.) Some try to stump me on the spot with a complex riddle or math […]

View Post E. James Rohn, Hewlett Packard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, SAT

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