Category Archives for Copywriting

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…

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I 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 […]

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My 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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Timmy's Message from Mordor

Timmy’s Message from Mordor

So 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:

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Lost in Transition

Every 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 […]

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