Archive for the ‘Random Marketing Lessons’ Category

February 10th, 2012

3 Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs

Over the years, I’ve made a lot of observations about entrepreneurs are who are and aren’t successful.

Below I’d like to give you 3 observations I made. These 3 characteristics are what I’ve found to be deeply imbedded in every successful business owner I know…

March 2nd, 2011

Breaking Down A Long-Form Salesletter

Just a very quick post today to direct you to a guest post of mine that was published yesterday (March 1st – my birthday!).

The post breaks down a long-form salesletter step-by-step… and even “calls out” people who think they’re a scammy waste of time.

You can check out the post

January 10th, 2011

Killing Your Ego

Over the weekend I had a lot of time to think.

For the first time in probably 12 weeks… I had no parties, no holiday celebrations, no birthdays, and no plans with friends.

And I LOVED it.

Spending time with just my wife was incredible (Saturday night we watched “Dinner With The Schmucks”, which was hilarious)… and I also got more time to meditate and reflect.

At some point during the weekend I started thinking about how your ego alone can absolutely murder your business.

I think it may have come after thinking about an ex-client who literally told me…

January 5th, 2011

Coffee Infused Nutsacks

This morning I was drinking my daily cup of coffee while checking my email. The coffee was starting to get cold so I headed downstairs to fill it up with the steamy pot of coffee that was on the burner, when all of a sudden I looked over at my cupboard where I keep my peanuts.

(I’m a HUGE peanut lover)

And that’s when it hit me…

November 11th, 2010

The Easiest Way To Quadruple Your Business

Here’s one thing that I really don’t understand about a lot of Internet Marketers… even a lot of them who have million-dollar businesses and are typically pretty savvy people.

They simply don’t have a grasp of the enormous cascading effect certain things have on their business. For example when they