So, I’m finishing up Kenneth Roman’s The King of Madison Avenue while starting Accidental Branding by David Vinjamuri. The later book reminds me of my intention to get on the mailing list for the J. Peterman catalog, something every marketer and copywriter should do. So I pop over to the website and find the following [...]

On page 18-19 of Step Into The Spotlight!, I tell the story of how a client had recommended a book to me (Blink by Malcolm Gladwell), I hadn’t heard her and I ended up finding it myself and recommending it to her. Kinda happened again today.
Out of the blue, I called a blogger to thank [...]

So, I’m waiting for paint to dry today & caught a particularly weird show on HGTV. Young beautiful people selling beautiful real estate to other rich young beautiful people…all kinda surreal, but I did notice how one of the agents used drama to sell his stuff.
He’s in negotiation with some agent. His client wants 3.8 [...]

In Step Into The Spotlight!, I recommend that entrepreneurs start a movement. Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby and all around smart guy, (thanks for endorsing my book, Derek!) explains how a movement is born. He recently got a standing ovation at the TED conference with this 3 minutes observation. (Thanks to Christian Mickelsen [...]

I’ll follow you; You follow me
We’re a happy family
With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you
Won’t you say you’ll follow me too?
Isn’t that a Barney song?
It’s a big fat lie.
Your “trade ya” followers aren’t really following you.
Yeah, they’re “following” you technically so they can broadcast to you.
Why not be upfront about [...]

Warning: This is a rant!

PEOPLE ARE SO DELUDED!
I’m at a Nice business event and some Nice guy in a Nice suit is at the front of the room giving a Nice endlessssssszzz presentation on Presentation Skills. It’s all very Nice.
I’m guessing this is also taking place in boardrooms boredrooms in Belgium and Japan and the [...]

So I’m picking up my mail, a bunch of bills and flyers when I spot, buried in the stack, a bright red sparkly bubble envelope (I didn’t even know they existed–I’m gonna re-use it and make someone else’s day!) and already, I’m excited. What was inside was even more exciting, a hot-off-the-press copy of Celebrity [...]

Reading an old Dan Kennedy book (purchased for 50 cents from my local library. Short story long? It was falling apart so I asked them to tape it. They said they’re going to chuck it when I returned it, so I gave coughed up 50 big ones (little ones), they stamped it “Discarded” and now [...]

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