Best Collections

Top 10 Most Expensive Collectibles 10. Spider-man Comic Book: $40,000+ 9. Pair of Levi Strauss & Co 501: $60,000 8. The Gutenberg Bible: $20,000 – $100,000 7. 1787 Chateau Lafite: $160,000 6. “Double Fantasy” John Lennon Album: $525,000 5. Porcelain…

7/11 Reasons

7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science Work Hard, Work Smart 1. Stop working overtime and increase your productivity The more you work, the less effective and productive you are going to become…

Learning How to Resist the Feds

Americans are learning how to beat the system, cheat the system, and outfox the system. As the bureaucrats tighten their many nooses, Americans are finding ways to slip the noose. An article in Forbes offers examples. They are everywhere. Businesses…

New Wave of Industrial Revolution

Imagine how our world — and your life — would change if the batteries that run your iPad… your Kindle… and your Prius hybrid held 10 TIMES more power and charged 10 TIMES faster than they do now… The Guardian…

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch

Contagion is Real. Does it End With Spain, really? Viva Los Rescates Financieros de los Bancos! “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” – Douglas Adams,…

Predicting Facebook Future

I do have a Facebook page. I do not own shares of Facebook. Sometimes “great deals” do not work out. Here is why… Apple currently trades around 13 times earnings Google currently trades around 18 times earnings At $38/share, Facebook…

Mobile Wallet Technology

Traditional wallets and purses are being replaced with smartphone “mobile wallets” that incorporate cameras, Internet connectivity, thousands of “apps” and increasingly, banking, credit and payment transaction technologies. Your future is calling on your mobile phone, and the ringtone sounds like…

Asian Risk: Aussie and Kiwi down?

Could commodity based exporters like Brazil, Russia and Chile be the next in this down trend? Do you call this currency: Australian Dollar or Australian Yuan? The same applies to the New Zealand Dollar or Yuan. Besides all the exciting…

Reagan VS Obama: Social Economics 101

What is the Proper Role of Government? Is its Most Important Function to secure the rights and freedoms of individual citizens? Should Moral Values and State be separate? Could the Governement Create Wealth? What is the Real Cause Of American…

Successful Entrepreneurs after 60

Many very successful people didn’t get started until later in life. Harland “Colonel” Sanders was almost dead broke at age 65. He used his first Social Security check of $105 to investigate ways to “sell” his special fried chicken recipe.…

Abundance VS Scarcity Mentality

Is Our Future Abundant or Scarce? Are our Resources Expanding or Decreasing? Is our Thinking Shrinking or Developing? The Scarcity Mentality is the zero-sum paradigm of life. People with a Scarcity Mentality have a very difficult time sharing recognition and…

Chinese Financial New Order

For many years now, it’s been clear that China would soon be pulling the strings in the U.S. financial system. After all, the American people now owe the Chinese government nearly $1.5 trillion. This could be the Currency War of…

The Next Great Energy Revolution

The History of the Western World Is the Story of Energy Revolutions Over the past two centuries, every great leap forward has been driven by a corresponding technological advance related to energy. Coal — along with the steam engine and…

The #1 Predictor of Your Future Wealth

I’ll give you some hints: It’s not education. It’s not income. It’s not a great job. It’s not whether or not you have kids. It’s not whether or not you own your own business. It’s not intelligence. (people with above-average…

Basic System for Hiring Outsourcers

“How can I get a developer to deliver on time???” “Where can I get a programmer that I trust not to steal my code?” “I’m having a hard time finding RESPONSIVE programmers who can deliver on budget.” “To many programmers…

Why We Don’t Have Free Education?

Do you think we should have free education from universities around the country? Isn´t education a right that the State should provide to every citizen? Some people think so. And they’ve let the media know. But you’ll understand exactly why…

The Great Tech War Of 2012

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google don’t recognize any borders; they feel no qualms about marching beyond the walls of tech into retailing, advertising, publishing, movies, TV, communications, and even finance. Across the economy, these four companies are increasingly setting the…

Best of Seth Godin on Quality

No relation between price and quality In industries under siege from external change (and I count music, books, airlines, pharmaceuticals, IT, telecommunications, etc) you’ll find that the extra fees extracted by the legacy companies DO NOT go for quality. They…

What is driving China´s growth?

The key to China’s economic growth isn’t “how fast?” or “how much?” The most critical question is “what’s driving it?”. Most people think that China’s current economic status is a mirage created by government stimulus and relies on exports. However,…

Fat Profits From Fast Food Stocks

McDonald’s went public in 1965, selling its shares for $22.50; now its stock trades around $90 a share. Fast food can be an occasional unhealthy indulgence – but fast food stocks can be a healthy dose of profit for your…

How Groupon Generates Cash While Losing Money

Groupon sells “Groupons” that allow its customers to eventually go and get something from the merchant that issues the Groupon. When Groupon sells a Groupon–say, a $25 coupon for $50 of belly-waxing services–Groupon collects the $25 immediately (from the subscriber’s…

Gordon Bizar Review of Aggregation

A Gordon Bizar student contacted me to know more about the implementation of Gordon´s Aggregation Business Model in my industry of corporate gifts. This is the transcript summary. RYB: I am exploring optimal ways to create a hugely profitable entity…

Bubble Theory and the Madding Crowd

In the investing world, we talk about bubbles. A bubble happens when stocks in a particular sector are over-hyped, and greed starts driving the market. In a stock market bubble, investors stop thinking about what they’re buying and start looking…

America’s Secret Elixir

What has made the US so great? Free markets? Smart people? Capitalism? Democracy? A two party system? Silicon Valley? Cheap resources? Or was it having the reserve currency of the world since 1945? No, that would not have been enough.…

Graphene “New Silicon” Discovery

Dry ice fuels new computer revolution, delivering China a windfall and early investors a singular opportunity You can use dry ice for a lot – keeping a picnic lunch cool, generating fog for backyard karaoke. Now it’s about to revolutionize…

Unstoppable Bull Market

Two rare commodities that quadrupled in 2010 double again in 2011… three reasons they’re just getting started. This is the fifth consecutive month that commodities have outperformed the stock market — their longest streak since 1997. The key reason commodities…

Audience Business Niche

HOW TO FIND A LUCRATIVE NICHE Starting with the product puts you in the position of having to play GUESS marketing. Which goes something like this… GUESS who the ideal customer is. GUESS what their pain is (their needs, wants…

Homeless Stories

General Patton once said, “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” No one embodies that more than the 10 people on this list.…

Burning Man and Gift Manifesto

If you want to receive more gifts for your cause, tap into your 10 inner gifts. 1. The Gift of Listening: Listening is the first step to real rapport. Build an emotional connection with donors by making them feel seen…

Best Tours in Santiago, Chile

  Hi, my name is Octavio. I was born in Santiago and travel experiences is a great part of my work. I´ve visited over 30 countries so far and my favorite is still my own city of Santiago. I have…

Best Tours in Lima, Peru

  Hi, I am Octavio Urzua and my hobbie is to travel around the world to awesome places. I have fall in love twice in my life, the first with my wife, the second with Macchu Picchu and Peru. Here…

Amazon Book Reviews

The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die by Joh Izzo (recommended by ETR) 1. Why do some people find meaning & die happy 2. Why I talked to the town barber (and 200 other people over 60) about…

Truth Contest

TRUTH CONTEST giving is receiving share wealth truth about drugs clean energy green technolog learning education love sex marriage the present universal truth money or life Insanity is doing what does not make you happy, over and over again. Intellectuals…

How does the US export inflation?

Most countries hold their reserves in dollars, which is a safe – haven of sorts, and that is why the dollar is known as the – reserve currency – of the world. To counter deflation’s bad effects, and to stimulate…

The Rare Earths Boom

Rare earths are a group of exotic elements of the Periodic Table (Lanthanides, mostly), with unique electrical, magnetic, optical and other properties. Without them there’s basically no clean tech, green tech, advanced electronics, electric cars, and much more. It’s not…

Why Healthcare Reform is Here to Stay

In her keynote speech on Monday, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, faced a hostile audience as she laid out the case for reform. The audience snickered when she pointed…

The Shale Gas Revolution

Just a few years ago, the energy investment idea du jour was to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals to handle future imports to the voracious US hydrocarbon market. Remember Cheniere Energy, once the darling of newsletter writers? Now there’s…

Jon Benson 3x VSL

3xVSL 4 elements in top performing VSL: usp, stories, tips, comparisons 5 steps in vsl process: snap suggestion, vital connection, big problem, bigger solution, grand offer Pattern Interrupt | Attention Watch This Now Benefit Formula Create Scarcity Something Completely Different…

Frank Chester

Current science concentrates on power generation through explosion and exertion. To drive your car the engine has to burn fuel…leads to depletion of that fuel and smoke through the exhaust pipe. As a martial art most popularity is focused on…

Mixergy

What’s your biggest challenge? Click the one one that feels most important to you: “I don’t know how to stay productive” “I need help launching a business” “I don’t know how to get traffic” “I don’t know how to sell”…

Shaqir Hussyin

14 tips for entrepreneurs 1. Always Be Building Your List (#1 Asset). 2. Start, Grow & Cultivate An Audience – Not just a list. 3. Start outsourcing early on. Delegate. 4. Spend 20% of your time learning. 80% of your…

Paul Graham

Money and Wealth in Startups If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? Startups are not magic. Wealth is not the same thing as money. Money is a side effect of specialization. Wealth is stuff we want:…

The New Gold Rush of 2011

The gold price soared nearly 30% last year – punctuating a spectacular decade-long run that has seen the gold price quintuple! So has gold finally reach a “bubble phase?” Is the great gold bull market on its last legs? In…