There are many famous people with Dyslexia and this has not held them back.

Examples of famous people with Dyslexia include the likes of Tom Cruise and Richard Branson – two famous people with success in very different lines of work.

What is Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that mainly affects reading and spelling and is characterised by difficulties in processing word-sounds and by weaknesses in short-term verbal memory. The effects of Dyslexia can be seen in the spoken language as well as written language.  It is estimated that around 10% of the population is affected by dyslexia to some degree and that it tends to run in families.

If you suffer from Dyslexia it will remain with you for life, but the effects of it can be minimised by adapting the way you work and as we know there are many successful entrepreneurs with this disability, it is by no means disabling!

Other successful business men with Dyslexia include William Hewlett - Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard; Henry Ford – founder of the Ford Corporation; F.W. Woolworth – founder of Woolworths; Walt Disney – founder of Disney.

If you have Dyslexia and you are considering setting up in business you might get inspired by this video:

NBC Today Show – Successful Entrepreneurs with Dyslexia

One of the top questions and top search terms is how much is Donald Trump worth when in fact what people should probably ask is “How did Donald Trump get started?” or “How come Donald Trump is successful?”

I have found a video which partly answers the second question and probably the most important message to come across with this interview is about belief and enjoying what you do! Donald Trump is not a “The Millionaire Inside” the show was changed to suit “The Billionaire Inside“.

I always remember speaking to one of my own successful entrepreneur clients and commented to him that what he did was not a job and that it was not even work for him, but instead it was like play – he really enjoyed what he did and it was his passion and he ate slept and lived his business – hence his success.

So if you are looking to start out as an entrepreneur, then I suggest that you start a business which sells a service or product that you have a passion about. If you are already a business owner and your business does not seem like it is going anywhere, then ask yourself this question “is this my passion?” The likely answer is no if things are not going too well.

If you take time to listen to this interview with Donald Trump, maybe you might get the inspiration you need to succeed in business and you might make a change in direction that makes all the difference. The other important point to get from Donald Trump is that it is never too late to change and always worthwhile making changes to your life in order to be completely fulfilled.

Donald Trump on The Millionaire Inside – Erin Burnett 1

I came across this video which explains about the five mistakes an entrepreneur makes in business.

We all make mistakes and if we are smart we learn from those mistakes and move on. However, if we can learn from other people about mistakes not to make in what we are doing then even better – so if you run your own business and are already an entrepreneur or if you are considering setting up in business then I recommend you watch this video, as it has some good tips for you.

Five Biggest Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make

The achievements of Sir Richard Branson are quite incredible and can be admired by everyone whether or not they are themselves an entrepreneur.

I found this video and really enjoyed watching this interview with some interesting facts about Sir Richard Branson. Most of us like to know things like how much is Richard Branson worth with his businesses with the Virgin Brand employing around 55,000 people and turning over some $25 billion (£15.7 billion)!

This is a real honest and open interview with Richard Branson and quite amusing at times and shows a real insight into what he is about and I hope it will inspire the readers of my business blog! He is open about both his successes and some of his failures and how he managed to save his airline Virgin Atlantic when things got a little tough with his competitor British Airways.

Richard Branson: Life at 30,000 feet

Oil is the largest riser this week rising by over 9% on the week to close at over $60 a barrel for the first time in months.

Another noticeable movement is Sterling to the US Dollar where the UK Pound has increase in value by 5%.
End of the week saw:

I was looking at writing an article about the worlds riches people and noticed that of the “Top 20 Richest” – 10 were in North America!

So looking at a simple probability you are 50% more likely to become seriously rich if you live in the USA. Three of these 10 American billionaires are in the top 4 and between them are worth almost $100 billion (£63 billion), with Bill Gates worth $40 billion (£25 billion) on his own!

Gates is a Harvard University drop out and was born in 1955 to a middle class family with no silver spoon in his mouth and armed only with his intelligence and personal drive.

The Story of Bill Gates – a Rich Man

The second richest man in the world is Warren Buffett born a few years earlier than Bill Gates in 1930 – so a more senior billionaire worth some $37 billion (£23 billion). Becoming a millionaire in the early days back in 1962 is when he first became a millionaire through a number of partnerships, which in January 1962, had in excess of $7,178,500, of which over $1,025,000 belonged to Buffett.

Mr Buffett then discovered a textile manufacturing firm, Berkshire Hathaway which he began to buy via his partnerships at $7.60 per share. In 1965, when Buffett’s partnerships aggressively began purchasing Berkshire, they paid $14.86 per share while the company had working capital (current assets minus current liabilities) of $19 per share – this set the scene with him in how he was to go on and make his fortunes through business investment.

How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The R. C. Willey Story

I thought that this was a good video of looking at how you could think about making your own money and maybe in the future either Warren Buffett or his successor may invest in your newly found business!

I did a bit of looking at what people search on the Internet relating to “How to get rich” and top of this list is “how to get rich quick” and following in quick succession is “how to get married to a rich man” – interesting. People seem to want to get rich fast or by marrying into money without having to do the hard work and on the whole this really does not happen.

There is always a little bit of luck along the way and one could argue that Bill Gates got lucky with some of his first business deals, but I think that he would have made it either way, one way or another. I always like to see luck as when “Opportunity meets preparation” – you might be thinking others are luckier than you, but if you had prepared yourself you might start to notice opportunities all around you!

Small business success is all about taking the right action and following some simple steps to increase your business profits!

Small businesses are the backbone to most world economies and anyone that has run or is running a business will know that it is not always easy and when presented with additional challenges, such as a credit crunch, business owners need some help.

Often times people think that the only way to increase profits is to either increase prices or to get new clients, whereas this is just not the truth.

Another aspect of your business to consider is its “USP” or “Unique Selling Proposition” and it is not always to a good thing to have this as “your prices are cheaper” or put another way that you are offer the best prices compared to the competition. Reason being that should your competition match your low prices, then you have no where to go, other than to lower your prices still further!

It is therefore good to spend some time on what it is that makes you better than your competition. If you are not able to think why your business is better than the competition, you should spend some time doing so and thinking up ways to shine above everyone else in your market place.

Spend some time thinking about what you would say to a customer that is sat right in front of you that asks the question – “Why should I purchase from your company and what is it that makes you special?” or “Why should I purchase from you and not XYZ company down the road?”

Once you have identified your “USP” you can start to take additional positive steps to small business success by…

increase the number of customers your business has…

increase how much your customers spend…

increase the number of times they come back to buy from you…

thereby increase your profits!

This is just part of the story, as there are in total 7-ways to grow your business and to improve profits. Running any successful small business is about keeping ahead of the competition by continuing to do the things that they are not doing.

It is these small differences that can be enough to keep your competition at bay and you on top. Using the Increase Profit Software you will be able to focus attention on what makes a difference for your business and how you can then start to brain-storm ideas to increase your business profits and to add to your Unique Selling Proposition!

Small Business Success is about taking action today!

This week gold has continued its rise this week having risen just under 5% in two weeks to close at $931.60.

In the same week all of the world stock markets saw a fall with the US S & P 500 falling the most at 5% on the week. In the UK it was the UKs FTSE 250 that saw a bigger fall than the top 100 shares falling by over 4% compared to 2.6% for the FTSE 100.

The biggest noticeable movement on currencies was the fall in the US Dollar against the Japanese Yen where it fell by 3.3% on the week.
End of the week saw:

Business on the internet exploded in the early days with porn and porn sites and the “sale of sex” in all forms and this continues to do so – Sex sells, as they say!

To just show how important the word “SEX” is on the Internet and that “Sex Sells” is that if you “Google” the word sex you get 743,000,000 results, however, I did some playing around with some other Google searches and was surprised to find the results shown in the table below.

I will admit that I expected the search term “Sex” to be top of this list – so I have learnt something new today – it is said that you learn something new each day!

So I then decided to do some more research and typed in the search term “internet revenue statistics” to find the highest revenue earner on the Internet and was surprised to see a website with a title “Internet Pornography Statistics – TopTenREVIEWS” of the 330,000 results was No. 1 on Google!

This was not quite what I was looking for or even expected, but might in itself be revealing about could still be the main business revenue generator on the World-Wide-Web!

As I had found this site, it was worth a look and it gave some statistics for 2006 Worldwide Pornography Revenues, where China was top of the list spending $27.4 Billion per annum on porn (representing $27.41 per capita).

However, the highest, per capita spend was in South Korea where on average each person spends $526.76 on porn making a total of $25.73 billion annual spend in total for the country! To see the full details of this report go to Internet Pornography Statistics.

Highest Internet Revenue Earner

However, this is not what I was looking for – I would like to find what is the Highest Internet Revenue Earner and whether there are other businesses on the Internet that have overtaken the “Porn Boom” from the early days of the Internet.

I think the billions of revenue earned from porn on the Internet is going to take some beating – what I also found interesting was the number of search results for “Poker” sites or online gambling – the revenue generated from online gambling is expected to be around $18 billion by 2010, which is no where near the adult industry revenues!

So if you are going to set up an online business then should you set up an adult one?

Well I say why not – Sex is one of the most natural things in life and one of the key reasons for life, i.e. pro-recreation. However, sex has and probably will always be a taboo!

So how can you earn money in the adult or porn industry?

There are many alternatives from phone sex sites to pornographic content sites that you could set up yourself – however, there are so many affiliate programs these days that all you need do is to set up an adult website or blog and form links with adult affiliate programs and link your site off to these.

What is interesting about the top porn website listed above, pornhub.com, is that you can view porn for free! So how do they make their money you might ask? One method is that on their site there is a link to a premium service, which includes HD quality and a lot more scenes that people are prepared to pay for.

As pornhub.com is the top site listed for the two main adult searches of “Sex” (215,293 per month) and “Porn” (278,910 per month), which is a total of nearly 500,000 monthly searches on those two search terms alone. To be No.1 on Google for this many searches is like winning the lottery every day!

So to conclude with this article “Sex Sells” for sure, but I am still not sure whether this is the top revenue earner for the Internet.

This week  has seen all major stock markets rise and in particluar the Chinese Hang Seng roase by 12%.

All European and American markets rose too with the highest rise shown by the French CAC 40 having risen on the week by 6.7% as confidence starts to feed back in to economies around the globe.

Also, with confidence coming back the oil price has risen in the week by 11.5% to $58.71 per barrel.
End of the week saw: