From a popular Internet marketing forum: Has everyone else been getting bombarded with emails about this “amazing new video?” I must have already received 10 to 15 copies of the same damn scripted email about this “amazing must see video,” and I believe many of these people don’t really know anything about ___________… but still […]
Continue readingI’ve been running a small private group on LinkedIn for the last half year or so. It’s called the Product Creation Work Group. Right now, we have about 16 members. Nearly all of them were hand-picked and privately invited. Members who aren’t active for more than 2-3 months get dropped. Nothing personal, but a dead […]
Continue readingI am a copywriter. More to the point, I am a freelance direct response copywriter who writes sales letters, manages product launches, and blogs about business growth. I make about 90% of my gross income from fees, commissions, and retainers for writing direct response sales copy for clients. But this year, I hope to change […]
Continue readingOne of my goals this year is to sell more products and services that don’t require my direct daily involvement. For instance, I’d rather sell a product and have it fulfilled automatically than book a copywriting job that I have to spend a couple weeks to complete. Toward that end, I’m focusing on two specific […]
Continue readingOn October 13 of the year 2010, Jeff Walker published a blog post titled Injecting Poison into Your Brain. Given the timing of the post (just 9 days after Salty Droid published his most popular post ever, Syndicate Shit Storm), it was clearly an effort to marginalize and deflect the criticisms leveled by Salty Droid […]
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