Simon Fuller

Over the course of twenty years, Simon Fuller has built a long roster of major recording artists and top international talent, including Annie Lennox, sports legend David Beckham, Claudia Schiffer, and The Spice Girls. He has managed the largest-selling music acts in the U.S. for the last three years, and in May 2008, Billboard Magazine crowned Fuller the "most successful British music manager of all time," with an astonishing 116 million units sold in North America alone.

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Work For The Experience, Not The Money

By Simon Fuller
Published 02/27/2009
Careers
Rating: Unrated

In the 21st century, it takes more to run a successful company than just good business skills. For the most part, entrepreneurs do not fail because their accounting skills are below par or because they cannot find their way around a budget. Rather, according to Kiyosaki, most entrepreneurs are never able to achieve the success they so badly dream of because of the skills they lack outside of the financial realm.

Learn To Mind Your Own Business

By Simon Fuller
Published 02/27/2009
Motivation
Rating: Unrated

“Many people confuse their profession with their business,” says Kiyosaki. “To become financially secure people need to mind their own business.”

Reinventing Yourself is Risky but Rewarding

By Simon Fuller
Published 02/27/2009
Motivation
Rating: Unrated

Some critics contend that there is nothing especially unique about Fuller’s recipe for success. Instead, they say he has simply capitalized on the phenomenon of disposable pop. What they fail to realize however, is that despite all outward appearances, Fuller has time and again reinvented himself.

Put Yourself in Your Consumers’ Shoes

By Simon Fuller
Published 02/27/2009
Marketing
Rating: Unrated

In the mid-1990s, Fuller came across a group of five women who called themselves Spice. They had been singing together and trying to get noticed for more than 18 months, to no success. When Fuller approached them, they were not sure what to expect, but anything had to be better than how they had spent the last 18 months.

If Your Job Does Not Excite You, Find a New One

By Simon Fuller
Published 02/27/2009
Motivation
Rating: Unrated

Fuller was born the son of an RAF pilot who later became a teacher who was passionately enthusiastic about founding schools. It was that passion that took the Fuller family to West Africa. Simon, along with his brothers Kim and Mark, spent much of their childhood growing up in Ghana, where their father would establish schools.

Make Sure You Are Clear On Your Purpose

By Simon Fuller
Published 02/27/2009
Motivation
Rating: Unrated

t is said that those who know Simon Fuller either love him or hate him. On the more favourable side, his role in the music industry has been compared to the late Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ manager responsible for the great British Invasion. On the other hand, Fuller has his critics who denounce him as someone who has sullied the music business with talentless artists and made fame a characteristic that can come irrespective of talent.

Build a Brand with No Bounds

By Simon Fuller
Published 02/27/2009
Marketing
Rating: Unrated

Simon Fuller’s specialty is not that he finds particularly outstanding talent and introduces it to the world. Rather, Fuller’s gift is that he is able to take almost anyone and build them up into a brand – a brand that the world cannot resist.