- Home
- Author's Archive:
My Strange 2-Week Stint with Herbalife
I was part of Amway for 3 years, from age 18 to 21. I then joined Herbalife for about 2 weeks. I joined because it seemed like they had a decent marketing plan for reaching beyond friends and family. Turns out they didn’t. 12+ years ago, their “marketing plan” was to put up signs at […]
Continue readingHow ClickBank’s New Risk Management Tiers Will Affect Marketers
For many years, ClickBank has been the leading affiliate network and payment processor for sellers of digital products. As a result, ClickBank has attracted tens of thousands of online marketers. Many are ethical. But many are not. There are plenty of ClickBank sellers who hype their products and sell crappy low-value ebooks and videos for […]
Continue readingNot Everything Goes Smoothly: Ryan Shares Some Crazy Failures
In 7+ years of freelancing, I’ve done a lot of things that seemed promising at the time… but then never really panned out like I thought they would. For example: A friend and client of mine was starting a new business with some partners. They wanted to create a website that would provide high quality […]
Continue readingDrayton Bird: How to Become a Better Copywriter & Marketer
There’s a set of three videos you ought to have this year. They are not bird-watching videos… they are Drayton Bird videos, in which he teaches you How to Write (and Persuade) Better. In case you don’t know who Drayton Bird is, let me paint a brief picture of the man:
Continue readingHow to Quash Business Growth
Here’s an easy way to quash business growth: Raise taxes. Of course, if you read today’s news, you’ll see proclamations that we’ve “averted the fiscal cliff!” And you’ll see claims that the new deal reached by the president and Congress “protects 99% of Americans from an income tax increase.” But it’s all semantics and political […]
Continue reading