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Looking for inspiration that could spark your million-dollar business idea? In this post, we’re diving into eight unique business ideas that grew into multi-million dollar enterprises that are still around today! Some of these successful businesses started with concepts you’d least expect to succeed, meaning regular people like us can identify other future million-dollar opportunities too. After falling in love with The Met in New York City, Nick Gray started offering

Making money from blogging is getting more popular every day. In this post, I’ll outline the various ways bloggers make money, and how my blog (the one you’re reading now) makes me millions. One of the most straightforward ways bloggers can make money is through sponsored posts. Companies are always looking for influencers with loyal audiences to promote their products. In a sponsored post, a brand pays the blogger to write a

Managing your money doesn’t have to be rocket science, but it is a prerequisite for building your rich life. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to manage your money in 10 simple steps. Don’t worry about being perfect right now, even if you just start with Step 1 today, you’ll be in a better financial state than having not started at all.Before you can effectively manage your money, you

This past June, I celebrated a very special anniversary: Three years. Three years since I walked into my boss’s office and told him, “No, I do not want to be on the fast track to VP.”Crazy, right?Well, not really…When I’d taken the position as HR manager for a subdivision of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company in 2010, I had been upfront with my hiring manager.I let him know that while

When I published The Coaching Habit, little did I know how big it would be for me. Within a year, my book turned into a Wall Street Journal bestseller, sold nearly 200,000 copies, received more than 500 reviews on Amazon, and maintained the number-one ranking in the business/coaching category for about 95 percent of the year.In this post, I’m going to give you the painstaking details on exactly how I

You can’t put a price on love.At least that’s how the saying goes. And while that may be true, you can still put a price on services that help others findlove.Many have tried it — from matchmakers to dating coaches. After all, as long as people have beating hearts and yearning souls, there’s a market for these products.So before you get too frustrated trying to find your big business idea, consider this:

In 1975, the pet rock sold 1.5 million units at $3.95 a pop. And even though it was a fad that lasted only 6 months, it made the inventor, Gary Dahl, a millionaire overnight.It’s one of those ideas so simple you think, “Man, why couldn’t I have come up with that?!?!”Most people will chalk up the runaway success of the pet rock as luck. But if you go beneath the surface,

When readers subscribe, they know they’re getting everything they need in one email. This comprehensive coverage takes Clark’s service from just a helpful newsletter to a fully fledged business and center for thought leadership.Finding Your Unique Business IdeaWriting has a bad reputation as a poorly paid craft, but that doesn’t have to be the case. More and more writers are finding new and innovative ways to build thriving businesses doing

Raise your hand if you run a coaching business and any of these sound familiar:Coaching is a human-based business. (Unless you’re coaching, I don’t know, rabbits.) And with humans come, you guessed it: human error.That’s where a coaching contract comes in.Contracts are about morethan wrapping your clients up in red tape and telling them what they can’t do. Think of your contract as relationship insurance: it does all the hard,

In 2012, Joyce Akiko landed her dream job right out of college. At least, that’s what she thought. Almost immediately she found out the work wasn’t a good fit.“From the outside looking in, everything seemed to be going great. I was doing what everyone expected me to do, but I wanted more meaningful work and to have an impact with what I did day-to-day.”So during her free time, Joyce taught herself