My take away from this article is that inc.com think they make money by jamming annoying things in front of my face which I have to close to read the damn article.
Great read. The last advice - to sell one common product over and over again, each time increasing the price and optimizing the selling process - sounds great and quite fun if you sell something you're interested in. I think it's a great way to learn the "magic" of marketing before starting a "real" business, without risking too much.
Good advice, but most people I know don't find making money exciting enough to pursue it as an end in itself. If you are not interested in what you are doing to make money, you'll probably lack the passion/excitement necessary to really work at it enough that you become good at it.<p>Selling things on ebay just for fun would make me crazy. I'd rather work on something that I find interesting. Jason has done a good job at identifying things he personally enjoys working on, and then sticks with it long enough to really excel.
Reselling something over and over again can be applied to your own products and/or services. Even businesses where every deal is its own special thing should find how to make them more similar to refine their process of selling the same thing over and over again.<p>Practice really is the only way to get good at it.
it's frustrating that there are a number of inconsistencies with his description of his early year on the Product People podcast last week. It makes me feel like in both he's selling himself 'at' me rather than givin me real info. Oh well