Creating More Products… More Quickly

Building Your E-mail List

Thinking

It's no big secret that I've coached more "up-and-comer" Internet entrepreneurs to guru status than anyone else. Heck, that's why I'm often referred to as "the guru to the gurus." So it's no big surprise that I'm often asked... What single trait separates the winners from the losers? My answer: Winners spend time THINKING!

Fuel Your Business Growth With the Power of Thought

It’s no big secret that I’ve coached more “up-and-comer” Internet entrepreneurs to guru status than anyone else. Heck, that’s why I’m often referred to as “the guru to the gurus.” So it’s no big surprise that I’m often asked… What single trait separates the winners from the losers? My answer: Winners spend time THINKING! Yep, you read that right. [...]

The Language Perfectionist: Unintended Double Meanings

Not long ago, an editor e-mailed a document to me, but it somehow went astray. When I told her that it hadn't arrived, she responded with the words: "I resent it." I wrote back, jokingly, "What do you resent?" This is a case of a linguistic ambiguity. Because English is filled with double meanings and puns, such confusions can easily occur. The results can be amusing or tragic -- or both. Here are some classic ambiguous headlines, all alleged to be genuine mistakes. (The first became the title of a book that immortalized such errors.)

Three Ideas

How do you run your business? Do you just wait until something goes wrong -- and then fix it? Or are you constantly thinking of ways to make things better? In his video today, veteran copywriter and marketing strategist Drayton Bird gives you a quick technique for doing the latter.

Are You Proactive?

How do you run your business? Do you just wait until something goes wrong — and then fix it? Or are you constantly thinking of ways to make things better? In his video today, veteran copywriter and marketing strategist Drayton Bird gives you a quick technique for doing the latter.

Today’s Words That Work: Limn

To limn (LIM) — from the Latin for “to illuminate” (a manuscript) — is to describe; to depict by painting or drawing. Example (as used by Jennifer Steinhauer in The New York Times): “[Demi Moore's] successes and limitations limn that curious piece of geography in Hollywood where [...]

Brainstorming for One

“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye.” Winston Churchill Brainstorming for One By John Forde “Brain-writing” is not my term. But we’re going to make it our own by revising it a little to make it more productive…

Brainstorming for One

“Brain-writing” is not my term. But we’re going to make it our own by revising it a little to make it more productive… You brainstorm to get ideas when you have none. Ideally, you do so in a group. So you can feed off each other. So you can legitimize sitting around drinking coffee. So you [...]