Posts by Mark Morgan Ford
4 Ways to Build Your Info-Marketing Business
“For some reason, I was stimulated by marketing and fascinated with how commercials would sell a product. So I got my degree in marketing.” – Carrot Top At ETR’s Info Marketing Bootcamp this year, I finally got to meet Brad Antin. Brad, who runs The Antin Marketing Group, is an expert in small business and…
Read MoreLet’s Make Today a Day of Thanks
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey In my Christmas message yesterday, I said that I hoped – after a day of laughter and decadent food – you would take some time to count…
Read MoreA Perfect Way to Spend the Day
“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.” – Benjamin Franklin As I’ve done every Christmas since ETR began in 1999, I’m spending the day at home with my family. I am writing this very early in the morning. It will be another hour or so…
Read MoreWhat Is Christmas REALLY About?
“It is our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigor and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature.” – Edmund Burke One of Howard Stern’s people interrupted his show recently to chastise him for his decision not to send every one of…
Read MoreIs ETR Teaching You the Wrong Words?
“Language is the dress of thought.” – Samuel Johnson We got a nice letter from a bright man the other day that I wanted to share with you. It’s about our Word to the Wise column. Bill Lampton, Ph.D., (author of The Complete Communicator: Change Your Communication, Change Your Life!) writes: “Although I believe that…
Read MoreSecrets of an Information Publishing Powerhouse
“You can view [running a business] as not just a job but as an honorable livelihood where you can, by using your imagination, develop the human spirit.” – Anita Roddick A few months ago, real estate magnate and multimillionaire Russ Whitney sent his private jet to bring me and several of my colleagues to meet…
Read MoreWhen Helping People Hurts
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend, / And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” – Polonius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet I have a weakness for helping people. Helping someone in need makes me feel stronger and better somehow. But helping is a dangerous thing. It can…
Read MoreMy 5 Rules for New-Job Success
Whether you’re entering the full-time workforce for the first time or have years of experience, keep the following in mind when moving into any new job.
Read MoreEnough Money to Fund Your Dream Lifestyle
If you’re like a lot of people, one of your top financial goals is to increase your income to “seven figures”.
Read More16 Ways to Make Your Small Business Boom
While starting your own business is a great way to rapidly increase your income, marketing it on a limited budget is a challenge for most new entrepreneurs.
Read MoreHow to Become a Chicken Entrepreneur
A chicken entrepreneur is somebody who keeps his day job while he gets his ideal job going at home in the evenings and on weekends.
Read MoreHow to Make Great Money Without Starting Your Own Business
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” – Alexander Pope One of the unanticipated pleasures of being in Paris this year was the evening K and I spent with John Forde. John Forde, in case you don’t know him, is the editor of Copywriter’s Roundtable (a great…
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