All posts by Ryan Healy

Happy Tax Day: Your Tax Dollars Used to Study Male Prostitutes

One of my favorite things to not like is taxes. And seeing as April 15 is on Monday (get busy, you slackers!), I figured it was an opportune time to talk about taxes and government waste. Do you know the U.S. federal government pays out millions of dollars in fraudulent refund claims to prisoners every […]

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How to Write Faster: Ryan’s Kindle Book Helps Copywriters

My new Kindle book (Speed Writing for Nonfiction Writers: How to Double or Triple Your Daily Word Count) will be free from Wednesday, April 3rd through Sunday, April 7th. If you haven’t grabbed a copy yet, it would be a good time to get one. Here is the direct link:

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The Simple Competitive Advantage Hidden in Payment Methods

One way to distinguish yourself in the market is to accept more (or fewer) methods of payment than your competitors do. Costco distinguishes itself by accepting only cash, check, or debit. By doing this, they eliminate merchant fees and pass on the savings to their customers. It’s inconvenient, but the inconvenience comes with a benefit: […]

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Curiosity is a Bloody Curse: How to Not Waste Knowledge

Us humans are strange little creatures. We’re curiouser than kids in a zoo. We want to know all kinds of stuff. And secrets we’ve not been let in on practically make us crazy with the desire to know. But once we know — once we discover the secret — we’re not much interested in using […]

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I’m Excited to Introduce My First Book on Speed Writing

I have written and published my first Kindle book. It is called Speed Writing for Nonfiction Writers: How to Double or Triple Your Daily Word Count, and it is just $0.99 right now. http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Writing-Nonfiction-Writers-ebook/dp/B00BRYB4BM/ If you’ve ever struggled with the blank screen… if writing feels like crawling through mud on your belly… or if you […]

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