Inspiration
I had a great meal last night — prepared by a “homeless” chef named Alec Schingel. Until last year, Alec worked for various restaurants around the country — including some great ones in my town, St. Louis. Now he’s on his own, no longer working for a restaurant, planning to open his own place some…
Here’s a rerun. I wrote it back in 2019 when I still led my email marketing company, MarketVolt.Ā I republished it on LinkedIn yesterday. My friend Ted Prodromou saw it there andĀ called it laugh-out-loud funnyĀ — which inspired me to email it to you now.Ā In my soon-to-be-released “Email Marketing Power” program, I’ll reveal the many…
I’ve completed another lap around the sun. Time to stick another candle in the cake, make a wish, and blow ’em out. And time to write about Dad. This has become a tradition for me: Tell a story or two about Dad on March 7 — the day I was born (1965) and the day…
I’m sitting in the kitchen, sipping a hot cup of black coffee and enjoying my breakfast of… A big chocolate brownie. Not my ordinary morning pick-me-up. But, of course, I had to start TODAY with a brownie because it’s December 8, which, as everyone knows, is… National Brownie Day. Really. That’s a thing. Says so…
The meeting with my new friend, Erica, was rollinā, rollinā, rollinā along. We agreed to promote each otherās businesses. We discussed ways we might work together. We hit it off. But when I asked Erica if sheād like to join my daily(ish) email listā¦ ā¦we went from rollinā to reelinā. We went from āYes!…
The email from longtime subscriber āScott Hā landed in my inbox last week with a āthudā It flashed as a notification on my iPhoneās home screen, revealing just the first lineā¦ āI have a problem with yourā¦emails…ā āUh-oh!ā I thought. I took a deep breath, sat up straight, and clicked the notification to open the…
After sending my daily email yesterday (subject line: “I didn’t punch Chad in the face, but his email tempted me” — which you canĀ read here) I received a reply from a surprised-to-be-happy subscriber named Kimberly. When she signed up for my list earlier this month, she was hesitant. Daily emails? Not her thing, she thought. …
I love it when high-quality people call B.S. on meā¦ ā¦hold me accountableā¦ ā¦get me out of my rutā¦ ā¦share a perspective I hadnāt consideredā¦ ā¦inspire me to implement, not dawdleā¦ ā¦encourage me to be my bestā¦ ā¦and then guide me to be even better. And I love to offer peers all of the above. …
I just started reading a book called āBandersnatch.ā Itās about the writers C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and their relationship as colleagues and competitors. In the 1930s and 40s, Lewis and Tolkien were members of a literary club called The Inklings at Oxford University. Members critiqued one anotherās works-in-progress. āBandersnatchā explores how Lewis and Tolkien…
Last week, I toured EPCOT at Walt Disney World with my friendĀ Vance MorrisĀ who used to work there and now is the planetās leading expert on how to āDisnifyā your business. As a surprise, Vance invited his pal Dave to share some insider secrets about how Disney World operates today. Dave is a top-dog at Disney.…