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Ilan Pres Articles

Ilan divides most of his time between scribbling things down in cafes across the globe and driving the wife and kids nuts in their far too small apartment. He works as a copywriter and freelance journalist for anyone who would have him.

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Why You Should Take A Business Loan During Q1

Ilan Pres January 25, 2022

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Ilan Pres October 4, 2021

How To Compare The Business Loans Available For Your Small Business

Ilan Pres June 28, 2021

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A young man uses a spray bottle to clean a glass window inside a modern room.

When WD-40 launched in 1953, the formula was the 40th attempt to create a water displacement spray for the Atlas missile program — the chemists never patented it because filing would have required disclosing the recipe, and the unpatented formula has remained a trade secret for 73 years

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 18, 2026
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Sam Walton flew his own single-engine Cessna across rural Arkansas in the 1960s to scout store locations from 500 feet, counting cars in competitors’ parking lots with a notepad on his knee — the practice continued until Walmart had 276 stores and he could no longer fly to all of them

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 18, 2026
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Before Google indexed the web, Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell their PageRank algorithm to Excite in 1999 for $1 million, then dropped the price to $750,000 — Excite CEO George Bell turned them down because the search results were too good and users would leave the site too quickly

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 18, 2026
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In 1975, Pet Rock creator Gary Dahl packaged ordinary Rosarito Beach stones in a cardboard carrier with a 32-page training manual and sold 1.5 million units at $3.95 each in six months — the joke product made him a millionaire before Christmas and was forgotten by Easter

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 18, 2026
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