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Rick Bayless: A righteous, fun and profitable info marketing business

By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, On the road, Selling Physical Products

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One of the secrets of making progress in business and life is to look for good examples wherever you find them and learn from them.

Not everything worthwhile and useful comes from books, manuals, seminars, podcasts and articles.

Sometimes you …

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Focus – and strike it rich

By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Internet history, Marketing insight, Media/Tech history, On the road, Videos to Watch

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Amazing video from the System Club archive.

What can you learn from this?

Lesson #1: Invest in Facebook when it’s just some kids coding in a rented house in Palo Alto.

But it you can’t do that, then what?…

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What Jack Ma of Alibaba said 15 years ago

By Ken McCarthy in Internet history

“Today, we are all here to discuss what we should do in the next 5 to 10 years.

So, what will Alibaba become in the future?

Since we were working on China Pages, I’ve always said our competitors are not …

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Jack Ma – richest man in China – shares his vision in his tiny living room 15 year ago

By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Internet history, Internet insight, Marketing Tools, Media/Tech history, News, Videos to Watch

Jack Ma paints the vision for his team – 15 years ago

Two minutes and 10 seconds of leadership in action.

“Today, we are all here to discuss what we should do in the next five to ten years…”

Chinese …

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When you reach the top, you’ll find Marty Edelston there

By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Marketing insight, Media/Tech history, Videos to Watch

He ramped up a ‘crazy’ business idea from his kitchen table to a $100 million a year newsletter business in just ten years…without the benefit of the Internet.

How Marty Edelston built a business to last and made friends …

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The one event that you simply cannot afford to miss

By Ken McCarthy in Business Tools, Marketing insight, Marketing news, Web/Tech

So many seminars…so many claims.

It’s rare that one seminar stands out so clearly from the pack.

…You want to hear from the top direct mail copywriter of the last 40 years? (He’s only given one other presentation on his …

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