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Blood, Guts and Success

Sometimes it takes blood, guts and a lot of effort to get what you want.
Here’s the story of how my son worked to get something he wanted – and what it might mean to you.
Read full story: Blood, Guts and Success.
How about you, what do you think?

Do you Tweet to an audience, a bar booth or an earlobe?

Some people treat Twitter like they are speaking from a stage. Some like they are talking to friends in a booth at the local bar. And some like they are whispering in your ear.
How do you Tweet?
As I look at those I’ve followed and unfollowed, I think the ones I like best are the bar [...]

Google Phone Review: 5 Things Wrong (for Internet Marketers)

First, understand that I haven’t even seen it yet. But plenty of other people are piping up about it, so I will, too. Here is my Google phone review featuring 5 things wrong: (Note that I have no basis in fact for any of this, but most reviewers have no facts yet either.)
1. Changes [...]

This is a new low…

I just came back from the Affiliate Summit in Boston. The show floor was full of merchants looking for affiliates, and networks looking for both publishers and affiliates.
At one point during the day, a pretty young lady approached me, said “Hi”, and put a flyer into my goodie bag as she asked me to take [...]

Internet Taxation and the environment

I’ve never written about anything remotely political before, but ’tis the season and I wanted to make one observation, specifically about internet sales taxes.
Naturally, many states want the ability to collect sales taxes on internet sales.
The economic arguments for and against are all over the net so there’s no need for me to repeat them.
But [...]

Mastermind for profits.

Masterminding is when a group of like-minded individuals get together to share ideas that help each other. In the internet marketing business, masterminding is a powerful technique that helps one develop new ideas, refine existing business tactics, and generally improve one’s business and profits.
I recently organized a mastermind session in San Diego for some [...]

An Apple a Day…

This morning I was driving my 9-year old son, Danny, to school early.  He was elected to the student council, and he had a meeting.On the way, I asked Danny what the student council had done so far this year.
He proudly told me that they had succeeeded in getting the snack cart to carry apples.
OK, [...]

Underground Marketing Seminar Wrap-up

I just got back from Yanik Silver’s Underground Online Marketing Seminar held in Washington, DC. It was excellent.
Yanik puts on a first class event. I personally picked up some great tips on starting and running a membership site, improving the results of email campaigns, ideas for product line extensions and lots more.
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Are You Sick of Your Product?

If you’ve been selling and marketing your product for more than a year, the chances are you are sick of it. You may be bored with the product, bored with the sales page, and bored with the market. If so, you may be making a big mistake.
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Las Vegas

I recently returned from a trip to Las Vegas with some of my internet marketing friends including:
Yanik Silver, Jeff Johnson, Jeff Walker, Jason Potash, Ed Dale and Mike Long.
I learned some interesting things…

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