"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."— Albert Einstein (Theoretical physicist)

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Wayne Dyer (Self-help lecturer and author)

"A non-doer is very often a critic—that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change."— Wayne Dyer (Self-help lecturer and author)

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Small Business and Entrepreneurs Stories

Small Business and Entrepreneurs Stories

Dissecting Innovation - 6 Keys to Developing New Markets

"Drawing on the work of a number of thoughtful researchers as well as our own work, we are exploring a set of theories that can help managers respond to the ever-changing circumstances in which they find themselves. Specifically, these six lessons will help managers make the right decisions to successfully build new-growth businesses."

Dissecting Innovation - 6 Keys to Developing New Markets

Adversity And Challenges - THE MAKING IT! TV SHOW

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The Promise and Perils of Equity Crowdfunding

The Promise and Perils of Equity Crowdfunding

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing a set of rules to let start-ups and other small companies sell securities for the first time through crowdfunding. Mandated by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012, the new rules aim to make access to capital a less onerous and costly endeavor for small firms seeking to raise a modest amount of funds.

"Remember, you only have to succeed the last time."

"Remember, you only have to succeed the last time."— Brian Tracy (Author, speaker, and consultant)

#MakingitTV #quotes

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Travel to Other Countries for Business Inspiration

Sometimes the best innovation for business is borrowing other people’s innovation. Howard Schultz got the idea for Starbucks while sitting in an Italian café. Plenty of creative product, fashion, and food ideas come from taking a proven product or concept from another area and transplanting it.

Travel to Other Countries for Business Inspiration

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open." — Alexander Graham Bell

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."— Alexander Graham Bell

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12 Practical Business Solutions From Social Psychology

Very simply, social psychologists study how people interact with others – their families, friends, and yes, business partners.  and executives have been using the findings of this growing field for decades to close sales, hold effective meetings and get their way in negotiations. But rather than putting you through an academic psychology lesson, we condensed the most useful concepts into one article.

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12 Practical Business Solutions From Social Psychology

"The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man."— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1st-century BC Roman philosopher)  #quotes #makingittv #quotestoliveby

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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey." — Dr. Stephen Covey

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."— Dr. Stephen Covey (Best-selling author and professor)

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"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."— Earl Nightingale

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."— Earl Nightingale (American motivational speaker and author)

Inspiring Thoughts, Inspirational Advice from Professionals

Why Startups Fail Building A Successful Business?

Why Startups Fail Building A Successful Business?

Why Startups Fail Building A Successful Business? Building a successful business is every entrepreneur’s goal—but only I in 12 succeed in doing it. Why do startups fail? The Startup Genome project analyzed data from 3,200 companies and came up with some answers. At the core of any successful business are two things: a good product and a large market for that product. In other words, a startup should be able to scale. And to scale properly, it must balance the growth of five core dimensions: customers, product, team, business model, and funding. The dominant reason for failure: premature scaling of one or more of those dimensions.

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"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner." — Zig Ziglar

"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."— Zig Ziglar (Motivational author and speaker)

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International Business - THE MAKING IT! TV SHOW

In 1992, Rafath Ali (www.ingeneum.com) seized the opportunity to acquire KEMCO MANUFACTURING, a machine and tool supplier that was founded in 1955.  During Kemco's 50th year in business, he decided to diversify and rebrand the company.  He asked his son-in-law Haider Nazar to join Kemco.  Together, Rafath and Haider sought to provide engineering solutions for new programs in addition to software development.  This led them to create new segment of their business under the new brand: INGENIUM, which means "power of mind" in Latin.  To help support their new services, they acquired a call center in India to better serve their clients.  The Missouri-based company has served high profiled clients like The Boeing Company and hopes to continue its international expansion by cultivating relationships with new customers. 

Two global business experts talk about strategies of taking businesses out of the country.  Charles Woo (charlie@megatoys.com) is the CEO of MEGATOYS, an international toy importer and exporter with offices in China, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles.  He has found success by developing relationships with local and international trade organizations and financial institutions.  Charles stays connected with international branches through the internet.  Most importantly, he believes that companies need to successfully deal with cultural differences in order to flourish in the global market. Richard King is the chairman and founder of KING INTERNATIONAL GROUP, which has 35 years experience in international business consulting.  Richard emphasizes the importance of establishing trust with one's clients.  To accomplish this, he believes conducting face-to-face meetings is a must.

In Secrets of Success, President of Media Monster Communications, Stacey Kumagai (mediamonster@yahoo.com) gives advice on how to think like an entrepreneur.  

The studio guest is Norma Clayton (norma.b.clayton@boeing.com), Vice President of Supplier Management at Boeing Integrated Defense.  

Title: Making It! TV - Best of: Conceive It, Achieve It!

Show: #494

Recorded Date: 8/28/2005

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A Real War on Poverty

I was just a kid coming to grips with the fact that I had to really put together some serious career thinking and preparing to make a living on my own when President Lyndon Baines Johnson launched his major initiative of the 1960s, the War on Poverty. At that time the story was that around 15% of Americans were living in poverty. This week, nearly fifty years later, the Census Bureau issued the latest poverty numbers and what a surprise, about 15% of us are living in poverty in this decade. This confirms my long held suspicion that the legislative army in Washington was either firing blanks in that war or aiming their guns at the wrong target.

President Johnson’s "War on Poverty," was an initiative that aimed to eliminate poverty in America for good by taking aim at its causes as well as its effects. He pushed an unprecedented amount of antipoverty legislation through Congress, most notably the Economic Opportunity Act, which called for a number of new programs, including Head Start, VISTA, and the Community Action Program. The declared intent of these programs was to help poor people help themselves. Other notable acts included the Food Stamp program, Medicare, and Medicaid. Since we have matching poverty numbers from 1965 and 2013, there must have been many missing strategies and tactics in that war.

I believe that a real escape from the box labeled poverty requires several fundamentals and they all involve entrepreneurial thinking. First, you need a solid belief in your number one product, which is yourself! Next, you should have a simple education on how the marketplace really works. Then you need to be determined to develop your skills to a rewarding level. And finally, never listen to anyone who tries to convince you that a life of poverty is your destiny.

I grew up having a hand shake relationship with poverty. As one of four children with both parents, we were living in a public housing project in Niagara Falls, New York, during my formative years. We didn’t have a car or even a telephone. A backyard clothesline is how the laundry got dried and a lot of that clothing came from the closest thrift shop. Like millions of other people around the world, I had the choice of remaining on a poverty path or to have a mind open to learning about alternatives. One of my schoolmates lived in a big house with a pool and I wondered how his family got the money for that. When I asked his father about how he made a living he said he was a scrap metal dealer. The next question was how do you make money at that Mr. Silbergeld? The answer was “I buy for one and sell for two.” That was a great ah-ha moment for me as to how a previously poor, linguistically challenged immigrant now lived a much better life than the average American. So I absorbed the lesson and began my first mini-business, delivering newspapers for the Niagara Falls Gazette while attending middle school. I bought the papers wholesale and sold them retail!

In my current twenty year mission of helping people think like entrepreneurs I’ve come to believe that the answer is not socialism, it's not welfare, it's not just compassion and it's not the redistribution of wealth. It's not higher taxes and slogan driven legislation that bring people out of poverty. It is applied capitalism that can move people up the self-worth and economic ladder toward their dreams of a better life.  

One of my favorite stories about rising above poverty was told to me by an African-American grandmother living in Jordan Downs, a legendarily awful housing project in Los Angeles. This lovely woman related how she’d been receiving welfare assistance for a number of years but grew to hate how it made her feel. She decided to find something of value that she could sell and generate an independent income. Athletic socks became her pathway away from the welfare rolls. What she did was purchase them in quantity from a Korean merchant in the garment district and she sold them door to door in her housing project for $2 per pair! She did so well that soon she was renting tables at swap meets to move her merchandise. It wasn’t complicated, but her thinking and actions were certainly resourceful and life changing.

I grew up believing that the most effective antidote to entrenched poverty was education. I don’t mean the education that leads to advanced academic degrees, but the kind of self knowledge that encourages people to stretch and grow beyond their perceived limits like the grandmother from Jordan Downs. I want to help the children from households steeped in poverty thinking to expand their horizons. What do we have to do for those souls to begin seeing their true and greater potential? The old biblical tenet of teaching people to fish rather than giving them a steady stream of fish supplied by a government agency applies here. I don’t believe that we can eradicate poverty by helping people remain in that unfortunate socioeconomic state by sending them a slogan and a check.

We have gone so far down the road of teaching risk avoidance that we now have generations of people who don’t really know what it takes to succeed in reaching their dreams. By the way, having a multi-million dollar house on the hill and a seven digit income isn’t everyone’s dream nor is it a true definition of success. You get to compose your own personal definition of success but everyone needs to know that it will take some risks to get there. The playwright Neal Simon said, “If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.”

Not everyone is an entrepreneur but everyone can benefit from learning to think like one. That means creating value to put into the marketplace and receive your just rewards. Whether you are offering your personal services, your brainpower, a useful product or great skills, creating value can scrub poverty from your life. We’ve all heard the term “Poverty Pimp” referring to people who make their reputation and living by screaming about rampant poverty without creating any durable mechanisms to teach the underclass how to escape that trap. Some have accused Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of creating the category. Those households living below the poverty line form the basis of their business and without them they’d have to find a new line of work. Did those legislators who signed off on “War on Poverty” legislation nearly fifty years ago really have a plan to drive a stake into the heart of the root causes of poverty? The wily old French Premier Charles de Gaulle who reigned around the same time as President Johnson said “In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” So here we are today with a widening income gap in America and poverty levels that mimic those of generations ago while politicians shamelessly ask how it happened.

In America which was built on capitalist principles, we are told by politicians and some economists that economic growth would be higher and poverty rates lower if only the government would spend bigger on a list of special programs and/or the Fed would print even more money. But what if the difficulty lies elsewhere, in problems that no amount of fiscal or monetary stimulus can overcome? For me, nearly five decades with no measurable change for the better indicates a structural problem. The war was a failure. Helping people learn to escape the poverty label is hard work and it can take a lot longer than the election cycles that govern politicians actions.  

The guiding strategy of my war on poverty is to teach people to think like a small business owner even if you are working a minimum wage job or living in your car. My tactic is to use all media to guide and support those who want to take personal responsibility in building their life far above the numbers that define the poverty line. After all, it is the men and women who operate small and medium enterprises that are the key to job creation. Many have come from disadvantaged circumstances and the jobs they create will help others to rise. There is something wonderfully satisfying about occupying a place in life where the buck stops, having the confidence and resources to make your own decisions. How wonderfully proud a person can be when they have wrapped their arms around a dream, working day and night to move it forward. These people are showing us how to wage a real war on poverty.

Best Of: Conceive It, Achieve It! - THE MAKING IT! TV SHOW (+playlist)

Robert Barragan and the Valley Economic Development Center (818-907-9977) was first featured in 2001 on our show entitled "From Welfare to Business Ownership."  Carl Jones went from jail, to being homeless, jobless and starving, but he used it all as a stepping stone to a better life.  Thanks to the Valley Economic Development Center), Welfare to Work state funded initiative, Jones now heads up his own entertainment promotions company, Black Bag Entertainment.    Other successful graduates of the VEDC's program includes, Mayra Goodwin, owner of Mayra's Housecleaning Services; Gela Cruz, whose business, El Baul De Los Recuerdos, supplies artistic photographs and paintings; Tara Townes, owner of Lulu's Play School, a child care center and Jewell Johnson, owner of Multifacets Flux Design, which makes room dividers and artistic screens. 

In another show that aired in 2001, "Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds" we introduced a former marine, Raphael Verela (800-493-6987).  He has turned boot camp into a successful business.  His Optimum Boot Camp, is a one-man company that has grown from making two thousand dollars a month to grossing more than $30,000 a month. His exercise program, which is offered seven days a week with sessions costing as little as $10 attracts celebrities such as Stevie Wonder and Kelly Sutherford.

In Secrets of Success, it is with Kute Blackson, transformational coach and owner of the Blackson.

The In Studio Guest is Mr. Richard Chang, of Richard Chang Associates, Inc.

Title: Making It! TV - Best of: Conceive It, Achieve It!

Show: #484

Recorded Date: 4/24/2004

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Best Of: Conceive It, Achieve It! - THE MAKING IT! TV SHOW (+playlist)

Robert Barragan and the Valley Economic Development Center (818-907-9977) was first featured in 2001 on our show entitled "From Welfare to Business Ownership."  Carl Jones went from jail, to being homeless, jobless and starving, but he used it all as a stepping stone to a better life.  Thanks to the Valley Economic Development Center), Welfare to Work state funded initiative, Jones now heads up his own entertainment promotions company, Black Bag Entertainment.    Other successful graduates of the VEDC's program includes, Mayra Goodwin, owner of Mayra's Housecleaning Services; Gela Cruz, whose business, El Baul De Los Recuerdos, supplies artistic photographs and paintings; Tara Townes, owner of Lulu's Play School, a child care center and Jewell Johnson, owner of Multifacets Flux Design, which makes room dividers and artistic screens. 

In another show that aired in 2001, "Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds" we introduced a former marine, Raphael Verela (800-493-6987).  He has turned boot camp into a successful business.  His Optimum Boot Camp, is a one-man company that has grown from making two thousand dollars a month to grossing more than $30,000 a month. His exercise program, which is offered seven days a week with sessions costing as little as $10 attracts celebrities such as Stevie Wonder and Kelly Sutherford.

In Secrets of Success, it is with Kute Blackson, transformational coach and owner of the Blackson.

The In Studio Guest is Mr. Richard Chang, of Richard Chang Associates, Inc.

Title: Making It! TV - Best of: Conceive It, Achieve It!

Show: #484

Recorded Date: 4/24/2004

Visit http://MakingitTV.com for more business essentials.

     

A Real War on Poverty

I was just a kid coming to grips with the fact that I had to really put together some serious career thinking and preparing to make a living on my own when President Lyndon Baines Johnson launched his major initiative of the 1960s, the War on Poverty. At that time the story was that around 15% of Americans were living in poverty. This week, nearly fifty years later, the Census Bureau issued the latest poverty numbers and what a surprise, about 15% of us are living in poverty in this decade. This confirms my long held suspicion that the legislative army in Washington was either firing blanks in that war or aiming their guns at the wrong target.

President Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” was an initiative that aimed to eliminate poverty in America for good by taking aim at its causes as well as its effects. He pushed an unprecedented amount of antipoverty legislation through Congress, most notably the Economic Opportunity Act, which called for a number of new programs, including Head Start, VISTA, and the Community Action Program. The declared intent of these programs was to help poor people help themselves. Other notable acts included the Food Stamp program, Medicare, and Medicaid. Since we have matching poverty numbers from 1965 and 2013, there must have been many missing strategies and tactics in that war.

I believe that a real escape from the box labeled poverty requires several fundamentals and they all involve entrepreneurial thinking. First, you need a solid belief in your number one product, which is yourself! Next, you should have a simple education on how the marketplace really works. Then you need to be determined to develop your skills to a rewarding level. And finally, never listen to anyone who tries to convince you that a life of poverty is your destiny.

I grew up having a hand shake relationship with poverty. As one of four children guided by both parents, we were living in a public housing project in Niagara Falls, New York, during my formative years. We didn't have a car or even a telephone. A backyard clothesline is how the laundry got dried and a lot of that clothing came from the closest thrift shop. Like millions of other people around the world, I had the choice of remaining on a poverty path or to have a mind open to alternatives. One of my schoolmates lived in a big house with a pool and I wondered how his family accomplished that. When I asked his father about how he made a living he said he was a scrap metal dealer. The next question was how do you make money Mr. Silbergeld? The answer was “I buy for one and sell for two.” That was a great ah-ha moment for me as to how a previously poor, linguistically challenged immigrant now lived a much better life than the average American. So I absorbed the lesson and began delivering newspapers for the Niagara Falls Gazette while attending middle school.

In my current twenty year mission of helping people think like entrepreneurs I've come to believe that the answer is not socialism, it’s not welfare, it’s not just compassion and it’s not the redistribution of wealth. It’s not higher taxes and slogan driven legislation that bring people out of poverty. It is applied capitalism that can move people up the self-worth and economic ladder toward their dreams of a better life.

I grew up believing that the most effective antidote to entrenched poverty was education. I don’t mean the education that leads to advanced academic degrees, but the kind of self knowledge that encourages people to stretch and grow beyond their perceived limits. I want to help the children from households steeped in poverty thinking to expand their horizons. What do we have to do for those souls to begin seeing their true and greater potential? The old biblical tenet of teaching people to fish rather than giving them a steady stream of fish supplied by a government agency applies here. I don’t believe that we can eradicate poverty by helping people remain in that unfortunate socioeconomic state with a slogan and a check.

We have gone so far down the road of teaching risk avoidance that we now have generations of people who don’t really know what it takes to succeed in reaching their dreams. By the way, having a multi-million dollar house on the hill and a seven digit income isn't everyone’s dream nor is it a true definition of success. You get to compose your own personal definition of success but it will take some risks to get there. The playwright Neal Simon said, “If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.”

Not everyone is an entrepreneur but everyone can benefit from learning to think like one. That means creating value to put into the marketplace and receive your just rewards. Whether you are offering your personal services, your brainpower or a useful product, creating value can scrub poverty from your life. We've all heard the term “Poverty Pimp” referring to people who make their reputation and living by screaming about rampant poverty without creating any mechanisms to teach the underclass how to escape that trap. Those households living below the poverty line form the basis of their business and without them they’d have to find a new line of work. Did those legislators who signed off on “War on Poverty” legislation nearly fifty years ago really have a plan to drive a stake into the heart of the root causes of poverty? The wily old French Premier Charles de Gaulle who reigned around the same time as President Johnson said “In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” So here we are today with a widening income gap in America and poverty levels that mimic those of generations ago while politicians shamelessly ask how it happened.

In America which was built on capitalist principles, we are told by politicians and some economists that economic growth would be higher and poverty rates lower if only the government would spend bigger on a list of special programs and/or the Fed would print even more money. But what if the difficulty lies elsewhere, in problems that no amount of fiscal or monetary stimulus can overcome? For me, nearly five decades with no measurable change for the better indicates a structural problem. Learning to escape the poverty label is hard work and it can take a lot longer than election cycles.

The guiding strategy of my war on poverty is to teach people to think like a small business owner even if you are working a minimum wage job or living in your car. My tactic is to use all media to guide and support those who want to take personal responsibility in building their life far above the numbers that define the poverty line. After all, it is the men and women who operate small and medium enterprises that are the key to job creation. Many have come from disadvantaged circumstances and the jobs they create will help others to rise. There is something wonderfully satisfying about occupying a place in life where the buck stops, having the confidence and resources to make your own decisions. How wonderfully proud a person can be when they have wrapped their arms around a dream, working day and night to move it forward. These people are showing us how to wage a real war on poverty.

Nelson Davis

Making It! TV

Making It! How-To Video Tutorials

Making It! How-To Video Tutorials

Want to be a "Serial Entrepreneur" or become famous on YouTube? Chk out our carefully selected practical how-to videos!

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"Ignorance does not exempt us from suffering. Knowledge protects us from suffering."— José Silva (American parapsychologist and author)

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Luis Irragori: From Colombian Hostage to American Success Story

Luis Irragori: From Colombian Hostage to American Success Story

The remarkable story of Luis Irragori, a Colombian refugee who escaped his kidnappers, came to the U.S. and built a thriving business from the ground up.

It was on a sunny day in April 2000 that Luis Irragori realized he had to flee his native Colombia with his wife and two children—immediately. Just a few months before, Irragori, the owner of five successful franchises, as well as a manager for 150 other locations, had been freed from a six-month ordeal during which he, his two young children, and about 180 other congregants were kidnapped at gunpoint while attending church...

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Wide, Wide World of Business - THE MAKING IT! TV SHOW

Originally a toy maker, Joseph Tung's interest in design led to a career in aeronautical engineering.  He began working for Boeing but decided to start his own company...

    

The Best 30 Home-Based Or Low-Cost Business Ideas For 2014

The Best 30 Home-Based Or Low-Cost Business Ideas For 2014

If you're thinking about starting your own home-based or low-cost business, the available options can seem overwhelming. What type of business is the best fit for your background, skills, and interests? If you don't have a lot of initial capital to invest, which ones can be started at a low cost? And, most important, which home business has the best chance of succeeding, especially with the U.S. economy still on the rebound?

Fred Deluca: His Story And The Subway Franchise's Mistake

Fred Deluca: His Story And The Subway Franchise's Mistake

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The 'Hierarchy of Entrepreneurs’ Needs'

The 'Hierarchy of Entrepreneurs’ Needs'

"When American psychologist Abraham Maslow set out to quantify human development he went straight to the lives of the most capable humans of his era, including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass. His results, published in the 1943 paper, A Theory of Human Motivation, are often summed up in what we now call Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

But what about a startup’s hierarchy of needs?

"I think the life cycle of an entrepreneur from that initial moment of daring to becoming a tycoon almost perfectly mirrors the human experience," said the "Shrink for Entrepreneurs, " Peter Shallard, in an interview with Upstart Business Journal. "Entrepreneurs are some of the only people who will experience the entire experience in a year."

And so we thought it would be interesting to overlay an entrepreneur’s needs on top of Maslow’s hierarchy, and see what happened..."

"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible." — George Orwell

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Marcus Lemonis: The Lebanese Orphan Who Became The Transformer

It wasn't just any family that adopted Marcus Lemonis from a Beirut orphanage when he was nine months old. His father and grandfather ran the largest Chevy dealerships in Miami and Tampa. After graduating from Marquette University, in Milwaukee, Lemonis returned to Florida and started selling cars at his grandfather's dealership. At 22, he made a failed run as a Democrat for an open state representative's seat in South Florida, then chose not to rejoin the family business. "I decided that if I wanted to be successful, I had to get beat up, learn from others rather than from my family," Lemonis says. He took a job at AutoNation, the country's largest car dealer, and worked his way up to regional manager. Then he took some advice from a family friend, Lee Iacocca (the former head of Chrysler Corporation), who told him the path to long-term success lay in finding an industry that was ripe for transformation. Read more:

Marcus Lemonis: The Lebanese Orphan Who Became The Transformer

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."— Zig Ziglar

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Lacking Customers? Why & How To Find New Distribution Channels

Lacking Customers? Why & How To Find New Distribution Channels

"You can evaluate a new distribution channel or improve your channel marketing / management at any time. It’s especially important to think about distribution when you’re going after a new customer segment, releasing a new product, or looking for ways to aggressively grow your business..."

Pop Star Robin Thicke's Parents, Alan Thicke and Gloria Loring, with Mr. T in 1983.

From the Archive: I'm with pop star Robin Thicke's parents, Alan Thicke and Gloria Loring in 1983. However Mr. T (The A Team) doesn't seem happy with whatever is in that bottle! (http://www.MakingitTV.com)

How To Start Exporting For Small Business

Has your company been losing customers or simply stop growing? Exporting might be one way to rescue your business...(article + videos)

How To Start Exporting For Small Business

Wolfgang Puck's Long, Winding Road To Success And What You Can Learn From It

'Restaurants,'' says Wolfgang Puck, ''are like children. You feel you always have to be there.''

Puck's labor has borne an empire of 11 elite restaurants, starting with the ground-breaking Spago in Hollywood 18 years ago. Besides his top-flight places, he owns 16 pizza cafes, a chain of ''express'' eateries, a frozen food line, has written four cookbooks and appears regularly on ''Good Morning America.''

His huge success is a tribute to his culinary genius -- he was among the first to champion fresh, local ingredients in restaurant cooking -- and years of hard work with his wife and business partner, Barbara Lazaroff.

But, like parenting, the restaurant business is unpredictable and fraught with mishap. Puck and Lazaroff good-naturedly shared their story, with its ups and downs...

Read more: Wolfgang Puck's Long, Winding Road To Success And What You Can Learn From It

Legendary racing driver Stirling Moss giving me a lesson-- my facial expression says he won--I shouldn't have worn the shirt and tie!

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Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

"Small things, done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact. What are [your] top 'small things' right now?"

— David Allen (Nightingale-Conant author & productivity consultant)

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Making It! How-To Tutorials

Making It! How-To Tutorials

New section on how to start a wedding video business, t-shirt business, restaurant business, etc. for the entrepreneurial spirit in you!

African-American & Hispanic Businesses [Series 3] - MAKING IT! TV (Speci...

Learn how Angel and Willie Banos offer a state of the art workout experience. Ella Avery-Smothers operates a restaurant franchise in inner-cities. Gabriel Garcia recycles scrap metal for a profit. Ezekiel Patten Purchases and sells energy for various companies. Get insights and guidance from our in-studio guests: Richard Rennick and Don Kincey.

Stephanie Palmer - Engage With Verbal Teaser - MAKING IT! TV (Secrets of...

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Neuroscience's Look At True Entrepreneurs And Managers

Do you think "exploitatively" or "exploratively"? That might explain why you could be a true entrepreneur...or not. 
Neuroscience's Look At True Entrepreneurs And Managers

Superb Service Businesses [Series 2] - MAKING IT! TV (Special Edition)

Watch our latest video from the "Making It! TV" archive: "Superb Service Businesses [Series 2] - MAKING IT! TV (Special Edition)" - See how Jimmy Williams designs and creates unique gardens. Cyndi Romero-Turk provides floral arrangements for special events and corporate accounts. Nien-Ling Wacker establishes the industry leader of standard document imaging solutions. Arlene Thomas specializes in translating media into more than 150 different languages and dialects. Get insights from our in-studio guest: Christine Kloser and Mark J. Robertson, Sr.

"We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers." — John McEnroe

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The Journey of Starting A Food Truck Business

The Journey of Starting A Food Truck Business

New Entrepreneur Confession from Making It!

"For the next eight months, Ian was unemployed and, running low on money, was forced for the first time to be strategic about his cooking."

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"All rising to great places is by a winding stair."— Francis Bacon

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"Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control." — Robert G. Allen

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"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception."— James Thurber

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The Death of a Business

The Death of a Business

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"It's all right to have a train of thoughts, if you have a terminal."— Richard Bowker. 

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Infographics: Comprehensive Guide to Online Marketing

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"Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink."— Leo Burnett

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How To Fish For The Next Big Entrepreneurial Idea!

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Start a Killer Restaurant: 6 Tips

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