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Recent posts related to

Productivity

Fear and Greed: Two Overrated Emotions

By Mark Morgan Ford | 09/25/2010

Way back when I was learning how to write advertising copy, it was commonly believed that the way to get high response rates was to appeal to our prospects’ greed and fears.

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It’s Time to Party

By Laura Rodini | 09/24/2010

It’s time to party!

I’m serious – I was just working on the final agenda for our Info-Marketing Bootcamp with ETR’s Conference Manager, Sharika Kellogg. And we made sure we’d planned in lots of time for fun in the evening.

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Heart vs. Head

By Drayton Bird | 09/23/2010

What has come over us Limeys?

We were always known as a pretty dull, phlegmatic bunch, compared to the excitable French, the fiery Spanish, and the sexy Italians.

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The Language Perfectionist: Return of the Confusables

By Don Hauptman | 09/23/2010

It’s been a while since this column has presented a roundup of “confusables” — pairs of words that are commonly mistaken for one another. So here’s a new set, inspired, as always, by genuine media mistakes: “Many who do admit that privacy regulations restricting the use of information about consumers…

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In Your Shoes

By Pete Genot | 09/22/2010

During my impromptu presentation at Early to Rise’s 5 Days in July Conference, I was asked someone in the audience to share my best advice for starting a successful Internet business.

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Learn This One Skill…

By Peter Fogel | 09/21/2010

I don’t have to tell you that we live in one of the most demanding economic times this country has ever faced, with unemployment numbers at record highs.

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Listen to This

By Perry Marshall | 09/20/2010

Before I tell you what every marketer and product developer should learn from a successful stereo speaker manufacturer, you need to know why you should listen to me in the first place.

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Investment Basics

By Mark Morgan Ford | 09/18/2010

Like most people, I began to think about retiring at about the same time as I started a family. I was relatively young — 29 at the time — and my expenses were increasing quickly. However, my income was increasing slowly, which is typical of most salaried jobs.

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Domain Trading for Fun and Profit

By Jason Holland | 09/17/2010

We’ve been talking with Marc Charles, creator of The China Wholesale Trader, about a new program for Early to Risers.

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Why Wall Street Is Always Wrong

By Early To Rise | 09/16/2010

Some say that individual investors have no chance of making serious money. They say that Wall Street has rigged the game.

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The Language Perfectionist: Gaffes Galore

By Don Hauptman | 09/16/2010

Here’s another collection of errors I encountered recently in major publications: “[The scandal at Hewlett-Packard] has stunted a long search by HP’s employees for stability and pride at the patriarch of Silicon Valley companies.” A patriarch is defined literally as “a man who rules a family, clan, or tribe,” and,…

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Experiment

By Glenn Fisher | 09/15/2010

Most marketing people will tell you that the key to any successful marketing campaign is “testing.”

True. But there’s a little more to it…

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