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Most Valuable Mini-Lessons For Your Business (10 or 12)

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This tip, from John Reese, really fits well with mini-lesson #8, I mentioned last week, about running a lean overhead machine.

10. DON’T LEASE OFFICE SPACE

(If possible.)

As tempting as this might become if your business starts to grow, avoid it at all costs.

If you’re like me, what will happen is that you will eventually stop going to the office and just work from home where you always were more comfortable anyway. And/or you will end up realizing you really didn’t need it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Most Valuable Mini-Lessons For Your Business (9 or 12)

I was really impressed by a recent email that I received from John Reese, one of the “grandmasters” (it’s just my way of avoiding the overused term “guru”) of internet marketing, entitled “12 Of My Most Valuable Mini-Lessons For Your Business”.

And immediately after reading through it all, I thought, “I gotta share this!”  So for the last 9 days I’ve been posting one each day.

Here is mini-lesson 9…

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Most Valuable Mini-Lessons For Your Business (8 or 12)

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8.  RUN A LEAN OVERHEAD MACHINE

I can’t stress this one enough.

When you start growing a successful business it’s really easy for your overhead to get out of hand. It’s easy to start hiring a bunch of people and committing to a bunch of expenses.

Take it from me, when you have months where your fixed expenses (doesn’t include advertising, etc.) are well over Read the rest of this entry »

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