All posts by Ryan Healy

How 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 […]

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Life is 1 Big Experiment that Flies By Pretty Fast

Life is a game, yes. But it’s also an experiment. You develop a hypothesis. You test it out. Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn’t. You learn from each experiment. You refine your thinking. You refine how you live and how you run your business.

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The Stages of My Agonizing Writing Process in 106 Words

Research. Research some more. Brain storm. Write headlines. Scrap headlines.

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Strange Conspiracy: Marketing Gurus Want Me to Shut Up

Maybe I’m just paranoid. But I get the feeling certain people have approached me or hired me simply to buy my silence. Let me explain… I’ve written some unflattering things about certain Internet marketing “gurus” and other online business people here on my blog.

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3 Types of Lies: The Government Wants You to Go Shopping

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” And nowhere is this truer than with government reports. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Labor reported 146,000 new jobs created in November. But is this actually good news? The government would like you to think so. They want you to see the number, […]

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