The national news does not make my top 20 list of worthwhile things. And it certainly should not be in your top 10.
NEVER start or end your day with news.
Bert Gulick once said,
The Consulting Maestro Pole-Vault
Consulting is like Monopoly: The more squares you own on the board, the more exponentially profitable your business can be.
At this 4-Man Intensive, an independent marketing consultant asked me a question. I drew him a picture of a tactical Power Triangle, like this:
Perry Marshall on Email Marketing: Part Two
VIDEO: Perry shares the importance of making deposits into your readers’ “emotional bank account” when selling via email and auto-responders.
"Comparisonitis" – This is for everyone, but especially *Consultants*
My friend and colleague Bob Regnerus, marketing strategist and book publisher, posted this today. I betcha you’ll relate to it somehow:
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I’ve battled all my life (from early elementary school all the way into my 40’s) with inferiority.
Perry Marshall on Email Marketing: Part One
VIDEO: Perry explains how to effectively build relationships with customers via email.
Wolverines, Poodles & 7 Years No Vacation
I just came home from a week in Ireland, taking a much-needed rest. This morning I was recalling a 7+ year span where we took no vacation at all, save for occasional visits to stay with family.
That lonely road is so often part of the entrepreneurial journey. It’s part of being… a wolverine.
Poodles get their food and water bowl filled every day. They sleep on the couch, watch Seinfeld reruns with the kids. Their owners take them for trots down the sidewalk.
Wolverines live in the woods, brave ice and snow, mark out large territories, sleep in the wild, eat what they kill.
Poodles live in cubicles.
Wolverines live free.
Perry Marshall Presents: Drayton Bird with "The 5Ws Of Marketing" [Video]
Most people in marketing don’t really know what “marketing” really is, do you? Marketing legend Drayton Bird had this to say about it.
Miss Ellie's Coffee.org
5 Key Takeaways from Ecommerce success story Coffee.org:
1. In 2009, Bill got Google slapped. It happened because…
Jesus vs. the "Worm" Mentality of Organized Religion
I almost put my fist through the ceiling when I heard this. Today, a 13 minute clip from Ian Carroll – “How Can You Succeed, Let Alone Help Anybody Else, If You Hate Yourself?” There is a false, insidious belief that has crept into Christian belief that we are all ‘worms’ and God just sort of puts up with us. … Read More
Whatever landed you in boiling water… that's your gift!
In 1990 I had a college job working at a branch of the billion plus dollar wholesale company, W.W. Grainger. One day the boss was out of town. Nothing much was going on, and me and my friend Tony were procrastinating.
We decided to play a prank on the Omaha office just up the road, so we sent them this fax: