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If you’re not reaching your goals quickly enough… Hey, How do we speed up our results for wealth, lifestyle, and true happiness? Peter Thiel is an investor, author, and co-founder of PayPal. Simply asking yourself the right questions is one of his strategies for success. Most people never ask themselves questions like these. They just drift on through life. Here are a couple questions to ask. Just be prepared to stretch your thinking a bit. “How can you achieve your 10-year plan in the next 6 months?” “Look at your goals. How can you 10X them?” Many will say, impossible! But it’s not… They’re just not trained to think about things this way. If you’re used to getting a salary of $50k a year, it’s hard to believe you could earn that in a month or two. Here are some questions that can get you there… Can you narrow your focus? Or get creative? Approach things differently? Think of it like this… There’s a story of a fly that was trying to get out th...

Internet Retailer Conference in Chicago, which occurred June 5th through June 7th. Peter Kosciewicz, Director of E-Commerce for the Eastwood Company, and Chris Saito, Senior Director, Shopping Products for Yahoo! Shopping delivered a presentation entitled "Social Networking: The Peer Persuasion Marketing Tool." According to Kosciewicz, the Web today has grown into an "architecture of participation" that facilitates social networking through devices such as blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, and more. Forrester Research has published studies that show that traditional marketing is continuing to lose credibility. For example, in 2002, 78% of respondents in a survey said that ads are a good way to learn about a new product. In 2004, that number had dropped to 46%. In 2002, 14% of respondents agree that companies generally tell the trust. As pathetic as 14% is, in 2004, it had declined even further - down to 7%. Social networking as a means of marketing overco...