All posts by Ryan Healy

Obama as the Joker: Bad Marketing?

In case you missed it, a doctored image of Obama as the Joker went viral yesterday after physical posters started showing up around Los Angeles. Most things that go viral online start online. But this started off-line… in one single U.S. city. Then it exploded on the Internet. So there is clearly something about the […]

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How to Control Your Telephone

Unless you talk to people on the phone for a living, then the telephone can quickly became Enemy #1 in your fight to protect your time. I know this. You know this. And yet we still let the telephone control us. What can we do? Well, about about 2+ years ago, I had begun using […]

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Your #1 Asset

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.” -Job 1:21 It’s no secret that you enter the world with nothing, and when you leave the world, you can’t take anything with you. […]

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Why I Avoid Talking About My Copywriting Business

Recently, one of my readers told me he enjoyed my “how to” posts, but that he missed my stories about freelance copywriting. In fact, I would have reproduced his comment here, but I couldn’t find it. Anyway, I thought it was a good question. So here’s why I avoid talking about my copywriting business these […]

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Selling Scuba Gear to Ski Bums: 3 Sales Lessons My Daughter Learned

My 6-year-old daughter was recently inspired to make some money. She got an empty box from the basement, gathered up a bunch of miscellaneous trinkets (pencils, erasers, plastic jewelry, coins, etc.), and then marched out to the curb to sell her “wares.” Of course, she brought her younger brother along with her. So there they […]

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