The Ten Commandments of Charity
Down the road going north from my vacation home in Nicaragua, you pass two hamlets, both bearing the same name: Limon.
READ MORELiberty Street League & Bootcamp
Last week, we wrote to all the subscribers to our Liberty Street League premium wealth-building newsletter. We were looking for feedback. What they liked, disliked, and their suggestions for new features and services.
READ MOREParalyzed by Worry
What keeps your customer up at night?
When he sits on his bed, one shoe on and staring out the window… what’s he thinking about?
READ MOREThe Almost Perfect Business
China exports over $1 trillion in goods each year. And that makes it one of the great new opportunities of the 21st century for entrepreneurs like you. But you need to understand how the game is played.
READ MOREMarketing and Business Reinvention
In my 35 years working with business owners, entrepreneurs, and big corporate clients, I’ve seen many approaches to marketing. Unfortunately, most of them are narrow, limiting, and, well, wrong.
READ MOREFear and Greed: Two Overrated Emotions
Way back when I was learning how to write advertising copy, it was commonly believed that the way to get high response rates was to appeal to our prospects’ greed and fears.
READ MOREIt’s Time to Party
It’s time to party!
I’m serious – I was just working on the final agenda for our Info-Marketing Bootcamp with ETR’s Conference Manager, Sharika Kellogg. And we made sure we’d planned in lots of time for fun in the evening.
READ MOREHeart vs. Head
What has come over us Limeys?
We were always known as a pretty dull, phlegmatic bunch, compared to the excitable French, the fiery Spanish, and the sexy Italians.
READ MOREThe Language Perfectionist: Return of the Confusables
It’s been a while since this column has presented a roundup of “confusables” — pairs of words that are commonly mistaken for one another. So here’s a new set, inspired, as always, by genuine media mistakes: “Many who do admit that privacy regulations restricting the use of information about consumers…
READ MOREIn Your Shoes
During my impromptu presentation at Early to Rise’s 5 Days in July Conference, I was asked someone in the audience to share my best advice for starting a successful Internet business.
READ MORELearn This One Skill…
I don’t have to tell you that we live in one of the most demanding economic times this country has ever faced, with unemployment numbers at record highs.
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