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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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Hotelier and author Orison Swett Marden sat in a small bedroom on Bowdoin Street in Boston churning out the very first issue of SUCCESS Magazine. From early cover lines about why fine clothes are an asset in business to recent ones about how to turn social media followers into customers, the magazine has gone through a massive transformation.

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Podcast 116: The perils of storage space

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The story is from 2006 though. That’s from the New York Times Magazine. In 2015 it was about $1 billion, where it’s been hovering since 2006, and three years later it was $5.5 Clothes that don’t fit don’t fit in your life anymore. Here are some of them. billion and headed straight upward.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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Blakely readily admits that she wasn’t the first woman to cut the feet off her pantyhose and wear them under her form-fitting clothes. She worked on her idea at night and on weekends, often skipping dinners, parties and other fun events to research patents and visit clothing manufacturers. Practicality is kind of her thing.

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Unautomate Your Finances – The Guide

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And this was coming from a man who created and currently maintains one of the top 25 blogs in the world in 2009, according to Times magazine. Build your house alone, grow your food, cut and tailor your clothes, push back when your daughter is asking you to buy her a doll or a BMW. Now, how does buying this guide sounds to you?

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Why Good Copywriting Goes Bad: Ignorance | Men With Pens

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Good copy will reveal that the emperor is has no clothes. I was kinda saying the same thing on my post for The Drum magazine right here: [link] …only perhaps a little more flippantly! Another reason why copy fails is the because people ask too much of it. This often happens when the project lacks a real strategy. Powered by frugal

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Why You Don't Need to Mimic Someone Else's Fame | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Review: 3D World Magazine Reply Josh Hanagarne ( @joshhanagarne ) January 22, 2010 at 10:16 am @heather Villa: I think emulation can be a great start, or a way to get out of a rut, or a way to spark new ideas, but everything we write that begins as an homage should wind up being 100% us. I think we’ve all arrived at a very special place.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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In honor of the 125th anniversary of SUCCESS , we’re extending the spotlight beyond the household names to the everyday leaders who reflect the true value of our magazine: impacting others in a positive way. Anaida has been a cover story for many prestigious magazines. But this year, there’s more. Marcus Dilley. Dany Garcia.

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