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Archive for May 21st, 2006

The Office — Are you outfitted for success?
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May
21

Your office space says a lot about you and by extension about your business. Is your desk cluttered with items that belong in your kitchen and your bathroom? Are there dishes out of which you ate your lunch two days ago, empty soda bottles, pens and pencils tossed here and there, stacks of paper cluttering the various corners of your desk? Is there a Kama Sutra — Oil of Love cherry almond scented bottle of body oil on top of the disk on which you have saved your clients’ files? Are there soiled clothes on the floor around you, catalogs that came in the mail which you tossed over your shoulder after skimming through to see if there might be anything on sale you could buy to wear to your sister’s upcoming wedding? You can almost predict an entrepreneur’s liklihood of becoming a success in business based on the way he maintains his office. What does your office space say about you? If your clients could see your home office now would they remain confident that they are doing business with the right person?

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Are all the good Internet business ideas already in use?
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May
21

Ideas are said to be the "beginning points of all fortunes" [From: Napoleon Hill’s "Think and Grow Rich". And if you’re like me you’ve spent no small amount of time trying to think up an idea that you can turn into a fortune. We know that the Internet has made it possible for very ordinary people to become millionaires. A recent example is Alex Tew of MillionDollarHomepage.com fame.

Here is this young British student looking for ways to fund his education. He comes up with an idea to sell pixels of his homepage space to advertisers and four months later is a millionaire and historical figure forever to be known as the innovator of the idea of pixel advertising. For those of us who have spent decades trying to come up with a winning business idea, it can be quite frustrating to discover that all the good million dollar Internet business ideas are not already in use after all. When someone thinks of something we would never have thought of ourselves, even though we want to insist we could have thought of it, and they turn that idea into the millions that continue to elude us, it can be hard to resist the tempation to kick ourselves. How many of us have asked the question, "Why didn’t I think of that?"

Where do good ideas come from? How does one come up with an idea like that for MillionDollarHomepage.com? You’re just sitting at your desk one day trying to think of ways to make a few extra bucks and suddenly a thought pops into your head, "Hey, why don’t you sell advertising space at a dollar per pixel?" Is it that the rest of us are trying too hard to come up with million dollar ideas? Do great ideas only manifest out of thin air when you are not trying to come up with them? Or are we just lacking in imagination? Creatively challenged? Cursed? It is almost guaranteed that someone else is going to come up with a winning idea for a website, and someone else after that. And the idea will be something that is hardly so scientific, so techinical or so complex that you or I could not have thought of it ourselves. But the key is to keep on thinking, because if you’re not thinking then there’s no way for an idea to be born in the first place, whether you come about it painstakingly or it just pops right into your already activated brain.

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