The Money Is in the List
If you have an online business, you've probably come across the expression "The money is in the list."
If you have an online business, you've probably come across the expression "The money is in the list."
By Rich Schefren | Mon, May 9, 2011
American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg was famous for turning the simple into the mind-numbingly complex. He invented hysterically absurd systems for doing the simplest tasks.
By Early To Rise | Mon, May 9, 2011
American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg was famous for turning the simple into the mind-numbingly complex. He invented hysterically absurd systems for doing the simplest tasks.
By Early To Rise | Mon, May 9, 2011
Inimical (ih-NIM-ih-kul) – from the Latin for “unfriendly” – means unfavorable, antagonistic, or adverse. Example (as used by Terence Brown in The Life of W.B. Yeats): “Yeats’s conflict with his father was not only about the conventional employment which J.B. Yeats believed was inimical to creative freedom.”
By Michael Masterson | Sat, May 7, 2011
Hal looked tired when he arrived at the restaurant. “You look beat,” I told him. “I am,” he said. “I’ve been working nonstop, running from my home in Canada to my office in Honduras and then visiting all my projects in Central America. I’m too old for this.” “How long have you been working at this pace?” I [...]
By Rebecca Matter | Fri, May 6, 2011
Did you get a renewal letter today for any magazines you subscribe to, perhaps offering a discount or free gift? How about an offer from a bank for a new credit card? (You’re prequalified and eligible for super-low interest rates.) Maybe your local car dealer is having a sale this weekend and invited you to come by. All [...]
By Don Hauptman | Fri, May 6, 2011
I recently wrote a column on what may be the 14 most common misspellings in the English language. But additional candidates can readily be found. In a newspaper article about automated parking garages, the word palate was used repeatedly for pallet. A pallet is “a portable platform used for storing or moving cargo or freight.” A [...]
By Early To Rise | Fri, May 6, 2011
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Dear Michael, Thanks for sharing your perspective on how to deal with disappointments. Your approach is certainly a positive one, and I plan to keep it in mind when things don’t work out for me. I am a big fan of yours and admire your writing talent and success as an entrepreneur. Thank you for sharing your [...]
By Early To Rise | Fri, May 6, 2011
Did you get a renewal letter today for any magazines you subscribe to, perhaps offering a discount or free gift?
By Early To Rise | Thu, May 5, 2011
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As always, I found Michael Masterson’s writing very inspiring and stimulating. When I start reading his “Plan B” article, my first reaction was that this is an interesting approach. Then I realized that Dale Carnegie said the same in one of his books – to imagine the worst possible outcome and accept it as possible. Then [...]
By Early To Rise | Tue, May 10, 2011
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