My brother emailed me a fascinating article about Being Lucky. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist, spent the last ten years researching what makes one person lucky and someone else unlucky. It is a really fascinating and relatively short article worth reading. Basically, he discovered that… Many people who feel unlucky are creatures of habit and are […]
It’s Time To Kill Off Social Media Marketing
Are you fed up with annoying Candy Crush invitations? I thought we grew past that when we stopped playing Farmville. It’s been a decade since Facebook came around, It’s been 7 or so years since Facebook let you send annoying invitations to your friends, yet companies are still desperately trying to “bribe us to spam […]
Want To Win More Customers? Make An Embarrasing Confession
This is kinda embarrassing, but…About a year ago I hired a moving company to move my property from New Jersey to Denver. They quoted me a price based on the weight of my belongings. Seemed reasonable enough until I discovered that not only do they not deliver the stuff themselves, but the freight company they […]
Why Losing Money on PPC is a Good Idea
“The Purpose of a New PPC Campaign is not to turn a profit; It is to prove or disprove which keywords will work best for you long term. ” -David Melamed If you are like me, you hate losing money more than you like making money. I once read that the ratio is like 4 […]
Why Some People Succeed and Others Don’t
I have a confession to make. I am not great at grammar. I sometimes switch between tenses and even worse, I sometimes even make stupid spelling mistakes. 95% of the time those mistakes are a product of rushing instead of slowing down. There is an old saying, “The Difference Between Smart and Stupid is Half […]
How To Reach 7x More People With Your Content
Content is just an idea. The media format is it’s packaging. There is no reason why an idea in a blog post can’t be repurposed into a handful of other media. Think about it this way. Your blog will only reach so many people. However, if you turn your blogpost into a slideshare presentation, you […]
Create Beautiful Designs Without Hiring a Professional Designer
Every Once In a While a New Tool Comes Around That Is So MAGICAL, SO AMAZING, SO BRILLIANT, you can’t stop talking about it. Canva is one such tool. Its such a perfect user experience and pleasant process that delivers an amazing design afterwards that It is just amazing! I remember a bunch of years […]
My Biggest Takeaway From Authority Intensive 2014
I attended an incredible conference (Authority Intensive 2014) last week produced by the wonderful folks from Copyblogger and as promised it was jam packed with immediately actionable insights. Too many to enumerate in this one post, but to give you a taste my biggest takeaway it was from Jason Millers presentation. Without knowing Jason I […]
How To Strike Up a Conversation With a Complete Stranger (or many) at a Conference (or anywhere else)
Meeting people at conferences is hard. If you are like me, it is very easy to talk yourself out of introducing yourself to a complete stranger wandering around a conference. Yet, you are there to network. The people around you are there to network. We are all human. We crave connection. Meeting people at exhibit […]
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