How to Become a Freelance Advertising Copywriter
“Despite not being overly smart or talented, over the past 3 decades I have made millions of dollars as a freelance direct response copywriter — and 30 years after I started, I still have fun every day doing it!” – Bob Bly Today I’d like to introduce you to this amazing world…
How to Read and Achieve More
At the end of 2012 I was disappointed with how few books I was able to read over the year. I resolved to find a way to finish more. The trouble was that on a day-to-day basis I was already spending hours reading. My daily reading included essays (my own…
Why You Must Dream Big
The first few hours of my morning are pure bliss. I arise early and sneak down to the kitchen table in my loft apartment. The sixteen feet ceilings and windows to the south help to free up space in my heart and my mind as I go about my daily…
Why Looking Out for Number One Is Noble
Over the years, I’ve taken a lot of flak — especially from the media — for the title of my New York Times #1 bestseller Looking Out for #1. As near as I’ve been able to tell, however, those who have been the most offended by the title never took…
How to Write Better
I remember my first Mastermind meeting like it was yesterday. It was at a swanky hotel in the wealthy Washington suburb of Bethesda. To get there, you had to drive past a seemingly never-ending row of all the high-end shops, from Louis Vuitton to Bulgari and Hermes. Of course, you…
How to Beat the Best
It’s always good to get a compliment. When I rewrote the lead for a promotion that “GX”, a successful copywriter, had been paid to write for one of my clients a few years ago, I felt good about my revision. The sales copy GX had sent in was standard, run-of-the-mill…
New Email Rules
A couple of years ago, our buddy Joel Marion gave a killer presentation at Yanik Silver’s UnderGround Online Seminar. In fact, he won marketer of the year for his secrets on “How to Write an Email, Press Send, and Make Money“. If you want to make money like Joel Marion…
How Helping Others Will Help You to Get What You Want in Life
It began as a gloomy, hectic, downright downer of a Wednesday workday. Just over twelve hours earlier on Tuesday afternoon I had wrapped up a disappointing business call. An important project had taken an unexpected detour and seemed like our progress at Early To Rise would be set back for…
Better Internet Business
You see this everywhere right now, though you might not realize it. Ryan Deiss does a lot of it. As do I. So does Vince Del Monte , Mike Geary, Jeff Siegel (from BeyondDiet.com), and even my old buddy Jason Ferruggia is getting into it… It’s called being a Publisher.…
The Wealth Headache
“Steve, you’ve got to think of every one of these deals as buying another headache… Do you really want THIS PARTICULAR headache?” My friend Brad Thomason gave me that advice a few years ago, and it stuck. At the time I was interested in a tiny property-investment deal that I…
Old School Way
It was my final night in Munich. Most of our group had already left on long voyages back to America, but a few us had remained behind,spending one more day checking out the sights in this beautiful – and remarkably clean – German city. At dinner that night, in the…
What I Would Do If I Were a Young Person Today
(NOTE: By young, I’m referring to anyone with a pulse and that still wants to add value to the world. This advice truly knows no age limits.) I’m a lucky man. I was born at the right time in the right place to the right parents under the right circumstances.…