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Your Personal Motivation Video

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Check out this post on the Warrior Forum:
From $0 to $500K in 2007… Step by step
There’s some solid use of NLP patterns in creating your own motivation in that post. After all, some of the best work you’ll ever do [...]

Check this out

I don’t have a good reason for not mentioning it before. It didn’t occur to me I suppose. Better late than never…
http://bitesize-marketing-nlp.com/2008/01/10/nlp-copywriting-magician-speaks-out/

There is more opportunity today than yesterday

Sometimes folks get down about the state of the economy or interest rates or the sub-prime market or whatever.
The thing to remember is that there are more ideas and opportunity today than there was yesterday. I don’t just mean gadgets either. Most new businesses that start do so because they’ve figured out a way to [...]

Why would any marketer work for someone else?

I’ve had this nagging feeling in the back of my mind for a while now.
I read blogs like James Brausch’s where he advocates creating and promoting your own products. Makes sense. And then I read posts by Ryan Healy and Clayton Makepeace and it seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.
Unless you have a [...]

Thanksgiving for the good guys

Something I recently realized that I’ve come to learn over the last five years or so…
First, 9/11 hit and I felt patriotic fervor thinking we were the good guys and it was honorable to go kill all the bad guys.
Then reality hit and I was depressed thinking there aren’t any good guys anywhere. Follow [...]

Good intentions aren’t always good

When I was a medic in Afghanistan, I observed something that I’ve thought over often.
I worked in the field hospital. We got Americans, locals, pretty much everyone. We got every kind of injury too.
On one occasion, we got some American soldiers who’d gotten the worst of an IED attack. Two were in our ER waiting [...]

You can’t trick the Universe

I’ve noticed what appears to be an interesting coincidence.
I’ve had it happen a few times that when people try to cheat me, trick me, or go against something that might be a huge moral issue, something bad happens to them.
I posted about the guy who got food poisoning right before trying to get away with [...]

Letting a time sucking someone go

I recently began negotiations with a potential client.
He was an agency and his website looked pretty good. He knew of Hopkins, Caples, AWAI, etc. I wasn’t going to have to educate him on direct marketing. Big plus.
From looking at his current landing page, I could tell he needed some real copywriting help. [...]

Adventures in Homelessness Mindsets

I’m a regular reader of around 20 different blogs. One of my favorites is James Brausch.
James posted a challenge entitled, “A Mindset Challenge.” He’s challenging folks to interact with homeless folks and do something like give them some socks and report back their experience.
It reminds me of 2 stories:
During college, I belonged to a [...]

Crystallized Words Resonating in the Heart

I’ve wondered why some words perform statistically better than others. Why is “know” statistically terrible but “realize” is okay and “be aware of” is outstanding?
One theory I have has to do with water crystals. Dr Emoto experimented with words attached to samples of water. He then froze the water and took pictures [...]