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Time Vampire Tells Me I Have a “Very Nasty F*ckin Attitude”
As my friend Ben Settle says, “I love the smell of hate mail in the morning.” And guess what? I got a real doozy right at 10 a.m. Here’s how it went down…
Continue readingI AM the Weakest Link!
If there’s anything that reveals how vulnerable a service-based business is, it’s sickness. I’ve been sick since Saturday morning with a really bad cold. Headache, congestion, fever, coughing, the whole bit. Tried to do a little work yesterday, but had trouble getting anything of significance done. Finally, today, I’m feeling better. Or at least well […]
Continue readingWhich Business Books Would You Re-Read?
Imagine that for one full year you could not read any business books you hadn’t read before… and that you were only allowed to read business books you had previously finished reading. Which books would you re-read? On my list, I think I’d have to include:
Continue readingKill Your Darlings (in Writing and Business)
Editing can be quite painful because it requires you to delete portions of your writing that you may particularly like — but may not be pertinent to making the sale or telling your story. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch said it this way in his 1916 publication “On the Art of Writing”: Whenever you feel an impulse […]
Continue readingMy Unexpected Conversation with Ryan Deiss
If you recall, last March I wrote a fairly harsh critique of the sales video Ryan Deiss uses to sell his Let’s Get Social program. When I wrote it, I was pretty fired up because of what I perceived as being gross overstatements in the sales copy. I really didn’t expect to hear from Deiss, […]
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