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The Language Perfectionist: Here’s Some “Practical” Advice

By Don Hauptman | 09/2/2010

Can you spot anything amiss in the following sentences? “The right way to look at illegal immigration is with a pragmatic eye.” “Should nurses take a pragmatic approach to hand hygiene?” “The system integrates ideas from logic programming, imperative programming, and rule-based systems in a pragmatic way.” The writers of…

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Pete’s Leap of Faith

By Pete Genot | 09/1/2010

I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since I made one of the best decisions of my life… to start my own Internet business.

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Don’t Kill the Thoroughbred!

By Early To Rise | 08/28/2010

You have hired a rainmaker — someone who knows how to create new business. He is doing great. Revenues and profits are going up. Gradually, you’ve let him take on more responsibility. Then you find out he’s doing something “wrong.” Perhaps he’s coming in late or using the company car…

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Why You Should Be at This Year’s Bootcamp

By Mark Morgan Ford | 08/28/2010

Just about every adult I know is concerned about the economy.

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China’s Technology Boom

By Laura Rodini | 08/27/2010

Seven thousand miles from where I’m typing this, there’s been a huge geological discovery.

It’s in China, south of Beijing, by the Great Chu Wall.

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Turning No Into Yes

By John Forde | 08/26/2010

“By focusing obsessively on how to make an idea smooth,” says marketing maven Seth Godin, “You can dramatically increase its velocity.”

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The Language Perfectionist: The Everything Column

By Don Hauptman | 08/26/2010

Consider the following sentences: “This is a vast collection of everything ranging from African musical instruments to 20th century art, and the Egyptian Temple of Dendur thrown in for good measure.” “You guys have had a lot of questions lately — about everything from unfinished high-rises and legislative votes to…

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The Role You Play

By Peter Fogel | 08/25/2010

Did you see the HBO movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers? Sellers was always transforming himself. The man slipped into a persona as easily as you or I would slip into a pair of gloves.

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The Undiscovered Country

By Alexander Green | 08/23/2010

On the way to a conference last week, I caught a connecting flight in Charlotte.

As I approached my gate, I looked up and noticed a sign: Terminal Destinations. It was an airport health spa, but it reminded me of the debate I was on my way to hear between Dinesh D’Souza, a Christian apologist and author of Life After Death, and Michael Shermer, a historian of science, founder of Skeptic magazine, and author of Why People Believe Weird Things.

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How 10 Minutes Can Change Your Life Right Now

By Mark Morgan Ford | 08/21/2010

Adela was an energetic, recently divorced 36-year-old, bubbling with ideas. She had come to ETR’s Info-Marketing Bootcamp to start her life anew. The goal she had in mind was to become a freelance copywriter — and she told me she had already ordered AWAI’s copywriting program.

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Why I’m Excited About Bootcamp

By Jason Holland | 08/20/2010

Hey, Early to Risers!

Laura Rodini is in San Francisco meeting with some of our top copywriters, so she asked me to take over today’s issue of The Insider.

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Mind Games

By Clayton Makepeace | 08/19/2010

The simple, objective fact is, there is absolutely, positively no reason why you shouldn’t have it all.

Billionaires are not a billion times more deserving than you are. Nor are millionaires a million times smarter than you.

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