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 readingIf 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, […]
Continue readingSo many marketing emails are boring, untargeted, and irrelevant. But every once in a while I’ll get an email that knocks my socks off (and actually makes me order something). Today I got one of those. Here’s the background:
Continue readingEvery interruption in your day creates lost time. Time lost to the interruption itself. And time lost to remembering what you were doing, refocusing, and restarting. The more interruptions — no matter how small they are — the less productive you will be. As you may know, I worked from a home office for 7 […]
Continue readingHave you ever wondered what the hard-and-fast rules of copywriting are? Wonder no more… Introducing “The 10 Commandments of Copywriting,” which I have now scribbled on digital stone for the benefit of copywriters everywhere. While I was inclined to mimic the language and style of the Bible, I realized by doing so I would be […]
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