Author: "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffet & George Soros" Mark Tier is the Founder of the investment newsletter "World Money Analyst", which he published until 1991, the author of "Understanding Inflation" and "The Nature of Market Cycles". Since 1991, he's helped start five new (and highly successful) investment publications. Eight years ago he adopted the "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros" himself, sold all his business interests and now lives solely from the returns on his investments. His most recent book is Trust Your Enemies, a political thriller which is “Up there with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Worthy of Ayn Rand” according to reviews on Amazon.com.

How I Saved Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines tells us it’s ”A great way to fly” with “the service even other airlines talk about.” Both slogans, along with the Singapore Girl who graces every ad, go right back to the airline’s beginning. But back around 1980, “the service even other airlines talk about” disappeared from their ads. So I wrote a column for Media & Marketing magazine…

Running (or Starting) a Business? Here are Two Must-Have “Guide Books”

I used to own a business. At least, that’s what I thought . . . until I read Robert Kiyosaki’s Cashflow Quadrant. According to him, what I had WASN’T a business at all. Worse: I had to agree! When I went on vacation, even for a few days, I had to be available pretty much any time. After a whole year, there’d’ve been no business to come back to, for sure…

The Price Of Free

“FREE” is simply the most irresistible word in your marketing lexicon. Because it WORKS. Next time you do a promotion try a split test: one with and one without the “free” bonus. Amazing how many people will pony up hundreds of dollars to get something for “nothing”! “FREE” is the simplest way to increase your sales—and up the average order value…

Why Are There So Many Real Estate Millionaires?

A couple I know in Sydney who got married in 1972, they bought a house which cost around $100,000. At that time, it was a very expensive property and they could only afford to buy it because their parents helped with the deposit. They lived in this house for 28 years, until 2000 when they divorced. As part of the settlement, they sold the house and split the money. The result: they were both millionaires