Okay, let’s open up the mailbag, reach inside, and see what we find. Aha! A two-part question from regular reader Stefan. He writes: I’d really love it if you wrote more about how I can get more customers. I understand principles of copywriting but what should I do with that copy? I also suffer from […]
Continue readingIf you’re like me, you’re in business to make a profit. You get paid, you do the work you agreed to do, or ship the product you agreed to send. But how you use your time isn’t anybody’s business but yours. You’re not accountable to a client to be productive a full 8 hours a […]
Continue readingI’m booked solid with copywriting projects right now. Won’t be back up for air until after Christmas at the earliest. Nevertheless, I wanted to share a free tool I started using this week. Learned about it from my friend Matt Fox. It’s a free online “egg timer.”
Continue readingEvery 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 […]
Continue readingAfter 7 years of working from home, I finally decided to get an office. Signed a one-year lease a couple weeks ago and moved into the office on Tuesday of this week. It’s only 6 minutes from my house, so it’s about as convenient as it could possibly be. So why did I get an […]
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