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Kill Your Darlings (in Writing and Business)
Editing can be quite painful because it requires you to delete portions of your writing that you may particularly like — but may not be pertinent to making the sale or telling your story. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch said it this way in his 1916 publication “On the Art of Writing”: Whenever you feel an impulse […]
Continue readingMy 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, […]
Continue reading6-Question Survey about My Blog Posts
It’s been a LONG time since I conducted a formal survey. With the exception of a 1-question poll I ran a year ago, the last “official” survey I ran is dated March 22, 2009. Anyway, I thought it was time to get your feedback based on what I’ve been writing and publishing the last seven […]
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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:
Continue readingLost 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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