How Increasing Your Prices Will Increase Your Sales
New marketers almost invariably charge too little. I don’t know if it’s because they lack confidence in themselves, their products or their market, and maybe the reason why doesn’t even matter. What does matter is this: You want to help ...
Are You Focusing on the Wrong Audience?
No matter what you do online, there are going to be two groups of people watching you. The first group is big – often 95% of your audience or more – and they watch. They lurk. They read your stuff, ...
The Greatest Email Swipe File Ever?
Anytime someone else is maintaining a swipe file that I can use, I’m happy. Here’s one called Really Good Emails that showcases emails sent from businesses to customers. It’s a goldmine of ideas you can use the next time you’re ...
Crypto Volatility on Full Display… Panic in the Streets…
Note: I am not a financial advisor, nor am I in any way giving financial advice. This post should be considered for informational purposes only, and is about my recent personal adventures with crypto currencies. Any investment, whether of crypto, ...
UpWorthy’s “Crappy” Editorial Process
I just had to share this with you. While researching how to better arouse a reader’s curiosity, I came upon a post that referenced UpWorthy’s editorial process for headlines. This is the exact wording of what they tell their writers ...
Best Blogging Tips
1: Choose a niche that allows you to write with confidence without continually performing a great deal of research. In other words, blogging is easier when you know your topic and your market. 2: Look for trending topics that also ...
The Money is NOT in The List
They say that if you build an email list, you’ll make money. That’s baloney. It’s like saying if you buy a set of encyclopedias (books full of info, for you youngsters) that you’ll be smart. But you’ve got to READ ...
World’s Most Dangerous…. Plant??
There is a shrub that can grow 115 feet tall and touching this plant just once can cause you enough pain to make you consider taking your own life. That’s the stuff of late night scary “B” movies, right? Actually, ...
Here’s a Note to Tack Up on Your Office Door
Short and sweet… Please note that I am self-employed. If you see me on my own, talking to myself, please do not disturb because I am having a staff meeting. Thank you.
The Success of Failure
In an age that worships success, there’s a movement to reclaim failure. I talked about failure in my first book, 5 Bucks a Day, lo those many years ago (2006 actually). I said “failure is your friend” and I still ...