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Archive for December, 2006

I Hate SPAM

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth

I Hate SpamI don’t just hate Spam, I actually loathe it…There is a big difference between legitimate marketing practices and the use of Spam disguised as legitimate marketing. Spam is NOT a legitimate marketing tactic. Spam is unsolicited, illegal, unethical, intrusive, abusive, and rude. Furthermore, it is very costly both in terms of the time and money associated with implementing countermeasures to deal with Spam’s consistent attack on my privacy and productivity. In today’s post I put forth for your consideration my quite vehement objection to Spam…   

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The Truth about MLM

Monday, December 18th, 2006

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth 

Today’s Myatt on Mondays question comes from a CEO who asks: “I’m evaluating using multi-level marketing to accelerate my distribution Is there anything truly wrong with MLM?” Let me begin by disclosing that I am not involved in multi-level marketing (MLM) and/or network marketing. Let me also be quick to state that in my opinion there is absolutely nothing wrong with the business model. In fact, the business model in-and-of-itself is rather brilliant. In today’s post I’ll share with you where I believe the MLM industry misses the mark and what it is that makes most of shiver when we hear the term MLM

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Interview with Mike Myatt

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth

One of the hidden pleasures of being a long-term survivor of the entrepreneurial life is that you are afforded the luxury of being invited to participate in any number of interviews, focus groups, surveys etc. I was recently asked to take part in a survey consisting of 20 questions posed to a group of 50 entrepreneurs.  The purpose of the survey was to search for common traits possessed by successful entrepreneurs. For those of you who are consistent readers of the N2growth Blog I thought you might enjoy having the opportunity to look inside the mind of its author. Following are the questions that were posed to me and my corresponding answers…

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