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How To Double Your Productive Hours
I just watched this video by Perry Belcher. I was surprised to find we have a similar technique (and reasoning) for keeping organized and focused. Watch the video if you’d like… I don’t use post-it notes. But I do jot down thoughts as they come to me for the purpose of clearing them from my […]
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John Carlton Ticking People Off…
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Free Software That Runs My Business
Last Spring my PC started to die on me. This led to a whole new philosophy for how I organize files and software on my PC. I realized my laptop could suddenly stop working, so all files needed to be accessible via the web. Especially copy projects that I was working on. I didn’t want […]
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Perry Belcher’s Headline Writing Formula
Michel Fortin tipped me off to this awesome headline writing formula by Perry Belcher:
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A Comment On Teen Internet Marketer
When did you start your business? There’s a guy at http://teeninternetmarketer.blogspot.com who’s working to get his business profitable at 16. That’s about the same age I got started. (10 years later…) I saw he made a blog post about GTD, or “Getting Things Done.” I decided to share some tips with him that took me […]
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Killer Advice From Michel Fortin…
Michel Fortin has answered Edward’s question! Here it is… Question: “How do you get inside the head of the prospect?” And I’ll try and make it more specific by saying, what’s a quick overview of your methodology for discovering the conversation in the prospect’s mind? I just posted a blog post today, “How to Target Your […]
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The Power Of Deadlines…
My sister stayed with me last week to work on copywriting 1v1. I watched her as she wrote copy and noticed that she was doing several things to make things harder for her. She was… using the backspace key WAY too much, constantly deleting her progress because in her words, “It wasn’t good.” staring at the screen wondering […]
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How To Find A Quality Domain Name For Your Site.
Just about any money-makin’ plan you might pick online requires that you start a web site. And if you’re like me, you’re starting new sites all the time. So I wanted to share with you how I, as a copywriter, find the perfect domain name. You know that “Save The World” project me and “Madison” […]
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Going Mobile
I’m making some more switches to my business to make it more mobile. Coinciding with the death of my laptop, I’ve decided to make an extra effort to make all of my business files accessible from the web. And preferably in more than one place. This way if my laptop suddenly shuts down on me, is […]
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How I’ve Boosted My Announcement List Sign Up Rate
Lately I’ve been focusing on increasing the sign up rate for my announcement list. And I’ve been less interested in getting people to subscribe to my RSS feed. James Brausch gave me the idea when he had to switch domains for his blog. He moved from “.com” to a “.org.” With RSS subscribers, you wouldn’t be […]
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