To all my Jewish readers, I would like to wish you a Happy Rosh Hashanah and a Sweet and Healthy New Year.

While it may not be the New Year for all of my readers, this holiday should remind us of the universal calendar New Year and the goals we made last January 1st. What goals have you accomplished? What goals were pushed to the back burner?

Let this little note be your reminder of the long 3 and a half months left ahead in this calendar year, leaving plenty of time to accomplish and exceed your business goals for 2010.

It's time to get to work, my friend.

Now, in today's issue, Dan will be touching on NOT-new ideas and how there's no need to go searching for the next best thing just to make the big bucks. The profit's in implementation, not invention. Read on to see what he's talking about.

To Your Success!

Bill Glazer

"Get your butt in here and give me a NOT-new idea - or you're fired!"

Fantasy Island was Love Boat on ground. Two And A half Men is a sad copy of The Odd Couple. The Apprentice is Survivor. American Idol is half Gong Show, half Star Search. Movie Output features comic books and remakes of old TV shows. There's no welcome mat at movie or TV studios for original ideas. Such things are very rare and must fight to survive. The demand heard as soon as there's a success is give me a copy of that-but different FOR GOOD REASON. Entertainment Industry leaders recognize the heightened risk of leadership, and much prefer the less hazardous pursuit of mimicry, riding rather than creating trends, re-labeling, recycling. In some instance, their theft is blatant and obvious. In other case, less noticeable to the public but easily recognized by insiders.

The point is, you never need to invent or create from scratch- and are very rarely if ever, able to profit by doing so if you insist on trying.

Sure there are "originals" that turn into huge hits. As David Carradine's character in Kill Bill points out, Superman is a unique original amongst all comic book superheros, because he is an alien from outer space and his real self is Superman; Clark Kent is his alter-ego, he wakes up as superman and dons a fake, mouse-ish, blend-in Clark Kent costume and persona (also his critique of the human race). The others are reversed. Bruce Wayne is his real self; he must don costume to become Batman. Peter Parker is his real self; he must don costume to become Spiderman. Etc. But, were we to set out today to create a new superhero, were we to play the odds, we would not attempt another superman; we would attempt another Shadow, Batman, Spiderman, Daredevil, etc. We would opt for the frequently, repeatedly, consistently winning formula - not the odd freak success. We would extract and identify the key elements found in common in the majority of the successful superheroes and then build a new one with that same list. At end, we'd try plus-ing it.

This is the smartest way to build a successful ad or sales letter or offer, product or service or entire business. Not with new ideas. With different ideas that are the same as the ideas found in common in numerous proven winners spanning a long period of time in our category. No, you won't wind up with Superman or Disneyland or Nutri-Systems Weights loss for men that way. But you might still wind up with a monster hit like American Idol, the #1 franchise on TV, with repeated predecessors dating all the way back to the very start of television with Ted Mack amateur hour. And if you do not get an American idol-sized hit, you are most likely to at least get a victory.

In my NO B.S. BUSINESS SUCCESS book, I talk about how most entrepreneurs are not so much risk-TAKERS as they are risk-MANAGERS. Yes, Iacocca impulsively okayed putting a convertible back on the road. But he came from Ford, where both the Mustang and T-Bird convertibles have been huge successes. Let's give him all the credit due but no more credit than is due.

I am a conservative. When I set out to "create" product, business, campaign, ad, direct mail, pretty much anything, I go through the un-creative process of assembling the common ingredients and elements from many prior successes in that category, to stitch into my quilt. I build lists of what needs to be included. I stitch together proven winners into one. At end, I might try to also plus it. THE BIG IDEA is not to have a new idea! And make no mistake, the profit's in implementation, not invention, with rare exception.

I am a conservative. When I set out to "create" product, business, campaign, ad, direct mail, pretty much anything, I go through the un-creative process of assembling the common ingredients and elements from many prior successes in that category, to stitch into my quilt. I build lists of what needs to be included. I stitch together proven winners into one. At end, I might try to also plus it. THE BIG IDEA is not to have a new idea! And make no mistake, the profit's in implementation, not invention, with rare exception.

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Adam C. Dudley
Orlando, Florida

Bill is often asked the question that if he went back into the Retail Business today, instead of 1974, what would he do differently? In Sundays edition Bill answers just that. Check your e-mail inbox on Sunday to see what Bill has to say about his past.

Mara

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