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Vlog – How To Be More Successful Than Microsoft (hint: Make it easy for people to give you money.)

November 30, 2009

Our Black Friday Sale Ends December 1 at Midnight! There’s still time to get in on the love, and have us solve your technology problems! Get 20% off all of our technology coaching packages. Today’s Vlog is brought to you by two crappy buying experiences I had over this holiday weekend: Summary For The Video [...]

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“Serial Entrepreneurship” And Being Who You Really Are

November 16, 2009

I wince whenever I hear or read someone calling themselves a “serial entrepreneur.” To me, the whole concept of “serial entrepreneurship” (and yes, I’m going to keep putting it in scare quotes) is unreal and screwed up. Put on someone’s website, it telegraphs un-trustworthiness and – frankly – skeeviness. I don’t want to do business [...]

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Return on Investment (or: How love puts food on your table.)

November 9, 2009

I’m always in the pulpit on this blog about giving value without demanding a return – but sometimes it really is nice to get something back for all your efforts. And let’s face it – none of us would be in business if we didn’t want something. Figuring out what investments you’ve made and what [...]

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How NOT to SEO. (In which I receive a crappy pitch from a John.)

November 4, 2009

Yesterday I received what was possibly the worst email pitch I’ve ever gotten. It looked like this: from SEO Services sender-time: Sent at 12:40 AM to: info@inspir-it.com date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:40 AM subject: Regarding Link Request Dear Webmaster, I have visited your site http://www.inspir-it.com and found it quite impressive. I am in [...]

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Puppet Shows and Overnight Success

November 3, 2009

I don’t usually listen to people’s conversations while I’m on the subway. Two men stood by the door talking. The younger guy – obviously upset by a conversation he’d been having with an artist friend of his – was complaining loudly about some success or other that the arrogant SOB had had. The older guy [...]

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Is Your Sales Funnel More Like a Sales Sieve?

November 2, 2009

I want to adopt a Golden Retriever. By all accounts, I’m a fantastically qualified candidate. I have extensive dog ownership experience, have trained several dogs (including greyhounds straight off the racetrack, who had never even seen a house before), and have volunteered for years at various breed rescues. I work from home all day, and [...]

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Things Entrepreneurship Teaches You (or: OMG Darth Vader’s in that cave!!)

October 29, 2009

I’ve been working on side projects all week instead of what I ought to be working on. Instead of what I’d like to be working on. Why have I been working on side projects all week? Because Darth Vader is in that cave, and I’m scared to go in. If you haven’t seen the original [...]

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In Defense of the Snap Decision

October 28, 2009

Snap decisions get a bad rap. If your grandmother was anything like mine, you got the “Now, don’t rush into things” speech at least once a day. Sit down, slow down, calm down – don’t rush into things. Don’t make snap decisions. This advice is usually given out with the best of intentions. We’re told [...]

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Why I’m Not Buying Any More Info Products. (or: How Merlin Mann changed my game.)

October 26, 2009

I’d been procrastinating over watching Merlin Mann’s latest video. Sure, everyone watched the little 5 minute Merlin Labs bit (“Giant Cock Paper” – heh!), but the other one? Man… 40 minutes of my time! Then I remembered how much time I spent dicking around on Regretsy last night. I watched Merlin’s thing. There are things [...]

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The Last Days of the Polymath? (In which I compare the internet to a beehive.)

October 20, 2009

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]

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