Copy Cat Principle

Written by Joe Trevison MBA CPA


THE COPYCAT PRINCIPLE by Joe Trevison MBA CPA

What got me thinking about this once again was attending a board meeting ofrepparttar Private School I am on. One ofrepparttar 144528 College’s is going to do benchmarking with other simillar schools.

Benchmarking isrepparttar 144529 Professional college term forrepparttar 144530 Copycat principle.

It is takingrepparttar 144531 best ofrepparttar 144532 best and modeling your organization after those practices. For example Melvin Powers one great guru you might have heard of. He has a publishing company in California. He has had it for many years. In his classified book he has a MLM classified ad that is a success and even gives you permission to use it.

When I worked for a Private Business school back inrepparttar 144533 early 1990’srepparttar 144534 owner use to go to far away cities and study other Private Business schools. He would put many of those practices in his school. He isrepparttar 144535 biggest Private School inrepparttar 144536 area at this time. That is how powerfulrepparttar 144537 copycat principle can be.

Recently I went torepparttar 144538 store. I love looking atrepparttar 144539 rag magazines atrepparttar 144540 counter. One ofrepparttar 144541 greatest is “Woman’s World”. It isrepparttar 144542 Woman’s weekly magazine.

The headlines are great. Here is a sample of this week: “The Indian Secret that Burns Fat!” “ How to Get Rich on $15 a Week” “Lose 20 lbs by summer” “Land Your Dream Job” 12 secrets that make any boss want to hire you.

Now you can use them for reports your going to write with your own research and you may have a profitable item.

We can use do this with them. “The Indian Secret to Leadership” “Land Your Own Dream Business”. “How to Rich With My Book: 151 Marketing and Business Ideas’.

That last book exists and atrepparttar 144543 end of this article I will tell you how can get it for only $5.95.

You don’t think big companies are doing this well let me show you how they do it and you can do it too.

The was an old ad that was in magazines for a long time “ Do You Make These Mistakes In English” It sold an English book forrepparttar 144544 William Cody Company for a long time.

How To Start a New Business

Written by Tom Coleman


While it is tempting to just leap into a new business because of it’s exciting possibilities, a few key planning points will vastly increase your chances of success. These steps aren’t difficult, but they’re easy to skip. Many businesses ultimately depend on a slim profit margin, so planning can really helprepparttar process. Too many restaurant patrons, for instance, assume that running a restaurant seems fun because ofrepparttar 144527 many restaurants they have visited, but restaurants have an especially high failure rate.One ofrepparttar 144528 key factors in planning a business model is simply researchingrepparttar 144529 demand for your product. If you are great at making kitty blankets, for instance, it’s worth checking out to see if there is a market for it. The entrepreneur may find that there are three times as many potential customers for dog blankets, and by simply adding dogs to your marketing strategy, you will increase your sales four times over. This fact would be an important one to know before allrepparttar 144530 labels, website promotion, and branding was done withrepparttar 144531 words “Kitty” instead of “Pet”!Supply is worth researching, too. Keeping withrepparttar 144532 pet blanket approach, you may find that there are tons of different blankets available, but none that have catnip in them. Marketing two types of blankets, one for dogs and one for cats, and placing catnip inrepparttar 144533 cat blankets may dramatically increase sales. Again, this type of research is much more helpful to have before any product has been made. It would be a shame to have a room full of single-ply cat blankets that will not hold any catnip, when that isrepparttar 144534 product that is a unique niche.The brand name needs a lot of thought because oncerepparttar 144535 name is out inrepparttar 144536 market, it can be very difficult to change. Picking

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