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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

You’re an Entrepreneur Forever

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Accomplishment, Calculated Risk, Competitive Landscape, Courage, Creativity, Dreams, Exits, Inspiration, Retirement, Self-Actualization, Self-Discipline, Success

“You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” —Morpheus, in The Matrix As I grow older, I sometimes imagine how my entrepreneurial drive will change when […]

View Post Alice In Wonderland, Chick-fil-A, Morpheus, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, The Matrix, Truett Cathy, Wealth: Is It Worth It?

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

Turn Your Lack of Knowledge into Billions

Posted on November 3, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Bill Gates, Billionaires, CheckFree, College, Courage, Forbes, Forbes 400, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Plank, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Pete Kight, Preparation, Sales, Sara Blakely, Software, Strategy, Success, Technology

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. —Mark Twain, author, humorist. Pete Kight has a success story that is simply amazing. The company he founded, CheckFree, was acquired in 2007 by Fiserve for approximately $4.4 billion in cash. In many ways, his story sounds like other millionaire success stories that include […]

View Post Bill Gates, CheckFree, College, Courage, Fiserve, Forbes, Forbes 400, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Plank, Ohio, Pete Kight, Sara Blakely, Software, Spanx, Under Armour, Warren Buffet

You Are Odd, and It’s OK

Posted on November 2, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Billionaires, Calculated Risk, Courage, Creativity, Fear, Mark Zuckerberg, Millionaires, Misconceptions, People, Productivity, Serial Entrepreneurship, Skills, Software Development, Steve Jobs, Success, Talent

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day. —Judd Apatow, film producer, comedy writer Chances are that when you think of the most successful and wealthy entrepreneurs, you don’t think of a group of weird people. Instead, you probably think of well-respected and brilliant people who exhibit all the admirable qualities of well-rounded, […]

View Post Cass Business School, Cisco, dyslexia, Geeks, John Chambers, Judd Apatow, Julie Login, Kinkos, Mark Zuckerberg, Nerds, Paul Orfalea, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, The Economist, Virgin Group

There’s No Such Thing as a Cold Call

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Angel Investor, Cold Calls, Creativity, Education, Making Deals, Negotiation, Preparation, Research, Sales, Skills, Strategy, Success

A winning effort begins with preparation. —Joe Gibbs, former NFL coach, race team owner At a recent entrepreneurship conference where there was a panel with angel investors, an audience member asked the following questions, “Do you take cold calls? And if you do, what should I, as a business owner seeking capital, say?” One of […]

View Post Capital Growth, Daymond John, Forge Intellectual Capital, Joe Gibbs, Timothy Reese, Valerie Gaydos

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

Make Your Dreams Come True

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Accomplishment, Billionaires, Courage, Dreams, Inspiration, Marketing, Millionaires, Success

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. —Walt Disney, founder, the Walt Disney Company. As he approached the middle of the basketball court, Michael Jordan had tears in his eyes. It was halftime during his final NBA All-Star Game in 2003, a highly emotional moment for sports fans […]

View Post Ashton Kutcher, Atlanta, Atlanta Hawks, Basketball, Harrisburg, Isaiah Thomas, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Morehouse College, NASA, NBA, NBA All-Star Game, Nelly, Nick Cannon, Pennsylvania, Shaquille O’Neil, spider dribble

Success Is Not the Goal

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Facebook, Generation Y, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, Self-Actualization, Serial Entrepreneurship, Success

Nothing recedes like success. —Walter Winchell, newspaper and radio gossip commentator. In 2009, Canadian recording artist Drake released “Successful,” the second single from his third release, titled So Far Gone. The song has a melodic and a catchy chorus: “I just wanna be, I just wanna be successful.” The same lyric is repeated over and […]

View Post Canada, Facebook, Generation Y, Initial Public Offering, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, Self-Actualization, Serial Entrepreneurship, Success

Choose Your Spouse Wisely

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Kevin D. Johnson in Calculated Risk, College, Dreams, Facebook, People, Productivity, Risk, School, Self-Discipline, Success

The most important career choice you’ll make is who you marry. —Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook As I watched my life play out on the big screen in the movie The Social Network, I smiled, reminiscing about my college days when I, too, was an instant campus superstar like Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder of Facebook. It was […]

View Post Kanye West, Mark Zuckerberg, OmniPublisher, P. Diddy, Sheryl Sandberg, The Social Network
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