[...]... idea and plan its future Then write a business model, develop Best Practices to achieve your business model, and finally, write and keep up -to- date, specific procedures in order to operate each aspect of your business 52 Make Millions and Make Change! Chapter 3: Best Practices as Weapons Anything that is not covered above is the meat of your business: creative employees who dynamically work with customers... properly applied to your future We believe that if you have solid motivational drive, irrespective of your past, you could start at even an entry-level position and still make it to the top of 38 Make Millions and Make Change! Chapter 2: Make a Winning Plan your industry, given enough time Make sure your boss’s plans for you are the same as your own, and make sure that you assertively earn, and explicitly... of your business (and therefore your domain and all of your branding) should be consistent, easy to say, easy to spell, and easy to remember You should also be able to trademark (TM) it via the US Patent and Trademark Office if it is not a generic descriptive industry term Be sure someone else hasn’t placed your name in line at the USPTO before you invest in your own 42 Make Millions and Make Change!. .. money, and there is really none to save, you are instead wasting money and wasting your and your employees’ time This is counterproductive to achieving your goals of financial success and is too stressful on your company You ultimately will have to let go of money and control to invest further into your business as opposed to just saving money Management activities should mostly be based on longer-term and. .. to a traditional business To entice them further to be our members and more importantly, so we can help them—we give away a variety of free, valuable services In exchange, our friends and business partners are encouraged to link their web sites to ours This helps to expand the ever-increasing network of visitors to our site, and the number of people who continually see our logo, just like regular business. .. products and services In short, businesses and charities should basically be run the same The main differences are in how you manage money and how you count success  22 Make Millions and Make Change! Chapter 1: Go for the Gold 23 Although this is a business book, we truly believe that a life with family and charity as the core is better than a life focused on business Our goal is to teach you how to get... adept will win, or at least get to share the top prizes Others who can’t manage to get past the competition will be run off and knocked 30 Make Millions and Make Change! Chapter 2: Make a Winning Plan 31 down By maintaining your focus, distractions and detractors will harm your competitors business more than your own  Paradoxically, everything that is difficult in business is ultimately for the good,... wouldn’t eventually decide to abandon that field and concept for any number of valid reasons Fortunately, there are additional great career options 32 Make Millions and Make Change! Chapter 2: Make a Winning Plan So if you haven’t trained your life for one business (i.e., your Best Bet), your Second Best Bet would be to go into a line of business that you are personally attracted to even if you are not... potential investors There is practically no way to build a seriously profitable business on a parttime basis As we stated in Chapter 1, raw man-hours often prove to be a key to success, and in order to make a proper go of it, you must be as focused as possible on your singular business goal Among other things, your business plan should document the expected startup costs and the costs to operate the business. .. competitors  Even though you are trying to metaphorically “kill” your competitors, their ability to compete is merely what you need to destroy You want to be an efficient and effective “hunter” to survive at the top of the food chain Your weapon can be an endless stream of advantageous transactions Obviously, nobody wants any personal harm to come to the competition Yet self-preservation and self-defense . alt="" MAKE MILLIONS & MAKE CHANGE! Secrets to Business and Personal Success By Mike Mann Edited by Karen Yakymishen, Barbara Becker, Alys Yablon, and. us by e-mail at http://www.makemillions.com/contact/. To learn more about Make Millions and Make Change!, join our social network, or receive e-mail updates