Posts by Mark Morgan Ford
Never Eat Alone
“In life it wasn’t what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.” – Rick Barry At any time I…
Read MoreHow to Succeed in Internet Information Publishing
“In the early days of the Internet, [Ragan Communications’] strategy of free online content made sense. Internet users were a small percentage of the total population. Content providers needed to gain an understanding of online behavior. And the technology for restricting access was in the preliminary development.” So said a software specialist in a trade…
Read MoreHow to Profit from Today’s Real Estate Boom
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” – Immanuel Kant The real estate market is hot. In a lot of the major markets – the Northeast, South Florida, and California, to name a few – it may be too hot. What to do? If you live in one of…
Read MoreThe Seven Ages of Man
“All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare wrote in “As You Like It” – a stage upon which, over the course of a lifetime, we each play many parts. Our roles change, Shakespeare suggested, depending on which “act” we’re starring in at the time. Today, I’d like to take a closer look at Shakespeare’s observations about…
Read MoreGet Your Employees to Contribute to Company Growth
JP was not my idea of a superstar. He hardly spoke at meetings … and when he did speak, he showed that he was smart, but his wit was full of sarcasm. He did his job, but as far as I knew, never volunteered to do anything. Although I several times suggested that he come…
Read MoreHow Much Can You Earn as a Teacher?
Teachers don’t make a lot of money. According to the latest survey by the American Federation of Teachers, the average teacher salary for 2002-03 was $45,771 – and the average salary for a beginning teacher was $29,564. Compared to the value they provide, teachers may be the most underpaid professionals in the country. (And from…
Read MoreDoing Business Overseas: Is It For You?
If you like traveling, you should consider taking your business overseas. Working internationally has changed my life. An internationalized business provides you with all sorts of benefits – some personal, some business: A larger, overall market to sell your products to – which could lead to a bigger business. A wider base of marketing experience…
Read MoreMy “Interview” with a Novice Copywriter
Recently, our friends at AWAI (American Writers & Artists Institute) received a request from Nancy Johnson, one of the novice copywriters in their Masters Copywriting program. “I’m working on the Monthly Copywriting Genius spec assignment,” she said, “and writing it from Michael Masterson’s point of view. To make it sound right, I need to know…
Read More8 Ways Modern Medicine Is Making You Sick
You may know that Jon Herring, ETR’s health editor, has been working on a report about the curative effects of sunlight. He’s uncovered a ton of solid evidence that sun exposure has a strong inverse correlation to the deadly internal cancers – like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer. Yes, there is a connection…
Read MoreWhat Is With Our Advertising?
SCS, an avid ETR reader, challenged me about ETR’s advertising. “Not too long ago,” she wrote, “you made the statement that if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. So why do you have advertisements in your newsletter like this one: “7 Stocks That Could Turn $200 Into $6.6 Million in 2005”…
Read MoreHow to Start an Internet Business
There has been so much written about how to start and run a profitable Internet business that you’d think the last thing the world needs is another “how to” on the subject. But we went ahead and developed our own program anyway. Why? Because almost everything that’s been written so far has been dead wrong.…
Read MorePlanning to Enjoy Yourself
For many years, I believed that the very idea of having fun was a foolish notion. I noticed that I often grew bored with activities that are generally considered to be “fun,” and that this was particularly true of passive activities like watching television and going to the movies. I argued that most of the…
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