Immutable (ih-MYOO-tuh-bul) — from the Latin — means unchangeable; not susceptible to variation in form or quality or nature. Example (as used by Sophia Lear in a New York Times review of The Still Point by Amy Sackville): “Julia has imagined Emily as ‘the still point,’ waiting for Edward at the pole he never sees, a [...]
By Jason Holland | Tue, Jan 18, 2011
When you start an info-publishing business — or any business, for that matter — there are many things you don’t know. And that includes plenty of things you don’t know you don’t know. Many new entrepreneurs even miss the “obvious” strategies that would propel their ventures forward. The speakers at our Info-Marketing Bootcamps made plenty of mistakes [...]
By Early To Rise | Tue, Jan 18, 2011
Obsequious (ub-SEE-kwee-us) — from the Latin for “to comply with” — means excessively eager to please; attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner. Example (as used by Richard Russo in Straight Man): “[The houses we lived in] had hardwood floors and smoky fireplaces with fires in them only when my father held court, which he did [...]
By Early To Rise | Mon, Jan 17, 2011
To Astrict (uh-STRIKT) — from the Latin for “drawn together” — is to bind, confine, or constrict. Example (as used by the French poet/dramatist Paul Claudel in a letter to Arthur Fontaine): “It is splendidly cold, one breathes in whipped sunshine. The cold is what ties up everything, what reduces everything to its maximum of astriction [...]
By Jason Holland | Mon, Jan 17, 2011
Andrew Lock was a recent immigrant to the United States (he and his wife brought only two suitcases with them) when he went to his first Internet marketing conference. He wasn’t an attendee. He was working at the back of the room as the AV guy. But out of the hundreds of people at the conference, [...]
By Early To Rise | Mon, Jan 17, 2011
Andrew Lock was a recent immigrant to the United States (he and his wife brought only two suitcases with them) when he went to his first Internet marketing conference.
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Jan 15, 2011
Would you like a simple formula for getting rich? Here it is: Find a popular product that is selling for $100. Find a supplier in China to knock it off and sell it to you for $10. Then sell it to the market for $50, half the price it's selling for everywhere else.
By Don Hauptman | Fri, Jan 14, 2011
Ambiguous sentences can be unintentionally amusing, though they do no favors for readers, who are likely to be miscued and confused. Here’s a new batch, all of which I spotted recently in major newspapers: “Huge budget shortfalls are prompting a handful of states to begin discussing a once unthinkable scenario: dropping out of the Medicaid insurance [...]
By Jason Holland | Fri, Jan 14, 2011
In this week's Insider, I'd like to try something a little different. I want to give you a second chance... Let me explain.
By Christian Hill | Fri, Jan 14, 2011
Yesterday, we talked about the huge demand for infrastructure in India and the opportunity this gives you to make triple-digit gains in the next 18 months. As a result of chronic underinvestment in infrastructure and 290 million people moving into its urban areas by 2030, India will be spending $1.5 trillion over the next seven years [...]
By Early To Rise | Wed, Jan 19, 2011
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