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I’m not sure why James Brausch thinks I hate him.
I don’t.
I don’t even know him; how could I hate him?
I do know that other people express some resistance to his often outspoken and blunt blog posts. Perhaps I should not have included the statement in my previous post (saying he "rubs some people the wrong way"), but that wasn’t a statement about my feelings for James. It was an observation.
"Rubbing people the wrong way" doesn’t put one in bad company. Jesus Christ rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. So did Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, and Kurt Vonnegut. Do I hate them? Nope.
Joel Comm's Simple Spam Stopper
I had to retire my email address. I’ve had it for years. It was my name, at my domain. I hated to let it go… but it was flooded by spammers.
I tried SpamArrest, but found I kept going through the spam anyway for fear of missing something.
I finally took the advice of my friend Alex Mandossian and just retired the email address.
Email has become a very unreliable method of communication.
Enter Joel Comm’s new product: MyContactStation.
Really, this is a no-brainer.
Google: How To Start Your Online Business
I hear from so many people who feel overwhelmed by the complexity of starting an online business.
There are only a few simple things you need to get started making money with your own internet-based business.
It’s not complicated, really.
Let me break it down for you. I’ll tell you the basic items you need, and Google can tell you the rest (just search for information on the areas where your knowledge is weak or incomplete). Here’s what you need:
3 Links Worth Clicking
Tom Peters: “I am unalterably opposed to ‘kid leashes’, and especially when the situation is as I described it. “
Seth Godin: “Often, more effort goes into circumventing a system then it would take to just do a great job in the first place…”. This makes me think about an experience I had at McDonald’s (yes, sometimes I eat there. I can’t be the only one.) Recently I noticed that the folks who run the drive thru window at my local McDonald’s have strategically placed a sign in the window so that, when they slide it open, it blocks the timer that shows how long you have been waiting. How’s that for circumventing the system? I never thought about that timer… until they tried to hide it from me.
5 Reasons Why I Blog
Ryan Healy tagged me with this meme: “5 Reasons Why I Blog”. I read Ryan’s blog on a regular basis, and I appreciate him including me in the fun.
- It’s good for business. It wasn’t always this way. When I started blogging it was more about self-expression. It didn’t take long for me to realize blogging was building my business, too. I get a steady flow of new business from people who say something like, “Well, I started reading your blog and finally decided I would call you.”
Breaking Through Writer's Block
I have to be honest.
I don’t believe in “writer’s block”. You shouldn’t either. I think it’s a myth. Worse, I think it’s an excuse for just not doing your job.
I’m not saying that it isn’t sometimes difficult to sit down and start writing. It often is difficult, for one reason or another.
However, the same could be said of a plumber, a carpenter or even a doctor. Have you ever heard of a surgeon saying, “I just can’t do this surgery today. I’ve got surgeon’s block.”?
Of course not.
Short Sales Copy For Expensive Seminar
Fortin has cause a big stir with his report on “The Death of the Salesletter”. Get it. Read it. It’s not a come-on for something else, there’s no “squeeze page”, and no “hidden launch” of some other product.
I agree with most of what Michel has to say in that report.
Want to see some very short sales copy for a $1,250 seminar that is converting like crazy? Then take a look at this. It breaks all the so-called rules. But don’t try this on your own, kids. There are some very important reasons why this is working, and they are not all obvious.
How I Got the #1 Lens on Squidoo
I asked for it.
Seth Godin was looking for someone to take over the Z List lens. I volunteered.
I want to do my best to make this lens as good as it can possibly be — so your input is valuable. Take a look, add your own site, vote. Thanks!
Click here to see The Z List on Squidoo.
Charity Begins With a Wish
The holidays are a time when we tend to be warmer in our dealings with people, and more charitable in our giving to those in need. In the Marketing DJ Podcast, I play a song that sums up my feelings on this; it’s called If Every Day Were Christmas. Some bloggers (discovered while I was going through the “Z-List” in my previous post) are doing something about that. Here’s the idea (NOTE: The following is a reprint of the post originally published at thoughtsphilosophies.com)…
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