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Recommended Newsletter Idea Surplus DisorderI subscribed earlier this year to “Idea Surplus Disorder” by Matt Homan after Matt and his team facilitated a strategic planning meeting for a nonprofit I serve in St. Louis. Matt is a smart and creative business leader. I love his newsletter which is “a weekly dose of innovation, ideation, and…
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Recommended Event Free Training with a Mindset Master If you’ve never crossed paths with Nina Cooke, now’s the time. She helps 6- and 7-figure Business Owners to create an unstoppable mindset so they can build authority and significantly grow their profits. On Wednesday, she’s hosting a live training: 3 Success Secrets of the Most Highly Respected…
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A true story about lead generation gone wrong (followed by an invitation): Once upon a time, an ambitious business owner created a free giveaway to attract new leads. His target market loved his “lead magnet.” 8,000 signed up and gave the business owner their email addresses. (8,000! That’s a good lead magnet). Then the business…
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Reason #137 to attend tomorrow’s complimentary masterclass The Proven P.L.A.N. to Create Client-Attracting, Profit-Generating Content — Without Writer’s Block… “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!” Brian Tracy said that. ⬆⬆⬆ I’m not keen to correct an all-time great like Brian Tracy, but… …when…
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If you’ve ever sat in front of a blank computer screen… …hoping to conjure some words for an email, social post, or other content… …but you come up blank… Dr. Edmund Bergler thinks you’re crazy Dr. B. was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst who claimed to have coined the phrase “writer’s block” in 1947. In 1950, he published…
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Recommended Events Free Masterclass to Create Better Content — Without Getting Stuck I’m hosting a masterclass on Friday called: “The P.L.A.N. to Create Client-Attracting, Profit-Generating Content — Without Getting Writer’s Block.” I’ll reveal my simple, four-part framework to create content that always speaks to your audience and draws them in. I’ll show you how to…
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Did You See the Lights? I blew it. I didn’t get outside on Friday night to see the “Northern Lights” in the sky above St. Louis, MO. USA. I have friends and relatives who saw them. How about you? Send me a picture if you captured one. (The stock photo above is nice, but I’d…
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Ripped from the headlines: A zoo in Hangzhou, China had to prove its Malayan sun bear, named Angela, is actually a bear — not a human in a bear suit. Turns out Angela has a wrinkly butt. So when she stood on her hind legs and waved at zoo visitors (yep, sun bears can do…
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Here’s a little-known detail about the “most successful sales letter in history:” The letter’s copywriter stole borrowed the idea. The writer in question: Martin Conroy. The letter: The Wall Street Journal’s “Two Young Men.” The set up: Two young men went to college together. Both were better than average students. They lived in the same town. They were happily…
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Recommended Reading Kevin Kelly’s “101 Additional Advices”Thanks to Tim Ferriss for sharing this post in his 5-Bullet Friday email. Here’s Kevin’s introduction to the list: “Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that…
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