Blog Posts
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Apr 26th, 2012 Marion Freijsen
Clear Cut Communication
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There are many ways to express yourself - the variety only grows with time. You can talk, paint pictures, act, mime or simply use words in writing to say what you have on your mind and on your soul. My preferred method of these is probably writing, I love words, I love the way you can combine...
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Mar 19th, 2012 Marion Freijsen
Eye Contact
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If you have been listening to Adrie, Roeland and myself (the founders of EFactor) carefully over the years, you will have caught us talking a lot about "Trust". Trust is an absolute core value for us as business people and we have never been shy to say so. I am not going to repeat here...
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Mar 12th, 2012 Marion Freijsen
Raise your Game
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Raise your game There are so many stories about Entrepreneurs these days, you literally cannot open the paper (online or one of those older, real paper varieties) without reading another story or another piece of advice about how to manage your business. Few of them, really strike a note...
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Apr 12th, 2011 Marion Freijsen
Young Entrepreneurs
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Over the past few weeks I have enjoyed a number of very interesting conversations, with a wide variety of people. Some of these were discussions with extremely knowledgeable people in business and entrepreneurship, such as of course Adrie Reinders - EFactor's CEO and co-founder or Jim Solomon,...
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Apr 2nd, 2011 Marion Freijsen
A&F's blooper
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The very popular American brand Abercrombie & Fitch launched a new line of swimwear this week including a bikini with push-up bra....for 8 year olds. It immediately fuelled a discussion on all media about the merit of this, are we pushing our kids to be older then they should be? What I...
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Feb 28th, 2011 Marion Freijsen
Variety is the spice of Life!
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In the US, Verizon recently finally started selling the long-coveted iPhone. It had taken them from the earliest days of the iPhone's existence to wrestle away the monopoly from AT&T, and there was an incredible amount of press spent on the event. They sold out of their stock of iPhone 3Gs...
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Feb 20th, 2011 Marion Freijsen
This is The Hour!
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I am a firm believer that although everyone fills many different roles in their lifes - you are daughter, sister, entrepreneur, partner, colleague, athlete, yogi and so much more - at some point all of these converge. Often it is a piece of music that rings true, a sight that leaves you feeling...
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Feb 12th, 2011 Marion Freijsen
Trust
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Trust. One word - five letters - and the foundation of any relationship you will strike in your life. You cannot love without Trust nor can you build a business if there is no trust between the founders, or between the company and its many stakeholders. Whenever I mention to others that to...
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Feb 3rd, 2011 Marion Freijsen
Recycling your Business
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At EFactor we often talk and write about businesses that are sustainable, and the unique ability of any entrepreneur to do something back for the society they live in or the planet they live ON. I feel strongly that it is the right of every entrepreneur to look for ways to help people less...
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Nov 6th, 2010 Marion Freijsen
Business and Spirituality
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Back to back, I watched two TV segments. The first was about a Californian who started his quest for enlightenment in the 60s and just published a second book about his and our own path to spirituality. The other about foreclosure, with one family who were just being turned out of their homes...