When the Housing Bust Will End
Ten thousand a month…
That’s how many foreclosures Palm Beach, Florida-based GMAC employee Jeremy Stephan was required to sign off on. His signature confirmed that the paperwork was in order, kicking off the foreclosure process.
READ MOREWhat Pirates and Princesses Taught Me About Business
My wife is a “stay-at-home mom.” But she also has a part-time business: selling children’s books. We pack up our minivan on weekends and head out to holiday bazaars, fall festivals, etc. in our area to sell them. The books are great, and very culturally diverse. Many are based on…
READ MOREHow to Enjoy the Writer’s Life
The most productive and, next to JK Rowling, richest writer in the world is James Patterson.
If you don’t recognize the name, he is the author of Don’t Blink and The Postcard Killers, as well as 48 other books….
READ MOREThe Talking Editorial
Many people think that “living green” means shelling out a bunch of money. And that you have to be a dedicated environmentalist to make that sacrifice.
But as Internet Money Club member Steve Stillwater explained to me between sessions at ETR’s recent Info-Marketing Bootcamp… you can actually save thousands a year in heating, electrical, and other bills by making a few simple changes.
READ MOREThe Language Perfectionist: This Is One of the Columns That…
Decades ago, now-defunct McCall’s magazine ran a marketing campaign that featured portraits of sexy dames, including Carly Simon and Tina Turner, along with the tongue-in-cheek caption “One of the boring housewives who reads McCall’s.” Over a period of months, the trade journal Advertising Age published numerous letters from readers, ferociously…
READ MOREMy Readers Have Made 70% So Far
This past May, I told a small group of my readers to invest in gold. At the time, it was trading at $1,200 an ounce. Right now, the price of gold is right around $1,325 an ounce. That is a nice 10% gain in six months. A solid performance in…
READ MOREWhat Drives Creativity?
Imagine if you could turn on creativity like starting a car, rev the engine to get up to speed, cruise along in the fast lane, and then park it in the garage until you needed it again. Is there anything you couldn’t accomplish? We’ve all had days when the engine…
READ MOREYou Have More Courage Than You Think
My fiancee Babette and I recently rented the “Karate Kid” movie starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.
She really really wanted to see it, but I was pretty sure it was going to be cheeseball. I never saw the original, and was fine with missing this remake.
READ MOREWhen Life Gives You Lemons… Make Money!
You’ve probably heard the expression “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” In other words, turn a negative into a positive. I’d rather turn it into money! Let me explain… I was invited to be a coach at Early to Rise’s 5 Days in July Internet Business Building Conference in…
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Wow! How weird it feels to sit at my desk again — something I haven’t done since our Info-Marketing Bootcamp began on Sunday.
I didn’t want the conference to end. The energy in the grand ballroom at the Delray Beach Marriott was simply electric.
Part of that came from the great presentations…
READ MOREThe Language Perfectionist: Redundancies Repeated, Yet Again
At a conference I attended recently, a speaker referred to “the little homunculus in the brain.” The word homunculus is Latin for “little man,” so the word little is redundant. I’ve written about redundancies several times in this column. But the error is so common that another report is probably…
READ MOREGetting and Keeping Customers
Your existing customers are the number one asset you have. Here’s a story about a company that never figured that out: my first Internet service provider. An Internet Business Tale of Woe The Internet service provider I had for my website did a very nice job of Web hosting for…
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