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Reason #473 to attend today’s free masterclass (How to Use AI Wisely 💡 to Save Time ⏱️ & Produce Great Content 🚀 — Without Sacrificing Your Sparkling Personality 🤩 and Humanity)… GPT-powered-robots are dirty, rotten, liars. I’m going to show you how NOT TO GET BURNED by their dirty, rotten, lying ways. I know. Them’s…
Tomorrow, I’m hosting a free I’m hosting a free masterclass: How to Use AI Wisely 💡 to Save Time ⏱️ & Produce Great Content 🚀 — Without Sacrificing Your Sparkling Personality 🤩 and Humanity There are 3,273 reasons () you could benefit from this event. Here’s one: AI-robots relieve writer’s block — if you ask…
Happy Halloween. It’s Melissa’s favorite holiday… …so the halls are decked with witches, skeletons, and things just too gruesome to describe in writing. And then there’s the candy. Mountains of Reese’s and Snickers and Almond Joys and Yorks. 36.3 pounds of candy. Enough chocolate to feed a zombie brigade. In a few hours the neighborhood…
Event How to Use AI Wisely to Save Time & Produce Great Content — Without Sacrificing Your Sparkling Personality and Humanity When: Thursday, November 2, 2:30 p.m. ET, 11:30 a.m. PT Where: Zoom (you’ll get the link when you register) What: A free masterclass. I’ll reveal tools, tactics, and strategies I use to save time and produce better content with AI’s help.…
I bumped into a bummed out marketer this week who hollered for help in an online forum. His AI-powered marketing failed to generate sales for his software… …which uses AI to write marketing messages. So he asked the humans on Reddit for help. He told us humans he sent a mountain of AI-generated, cold emails…
n 2004, on the eve of his retirement, when he was no longer accepting clients, “America’s best copywriter” began to share his most powerful trade secrets by email. His name was Gary Bencivenga and he called the emails “Marketing Bullets.” I’ve been reading Bencivenga’s Bullets again lately, inspired by Brian Kurtz and his book “Overdeliver.”…
Pablo Picasso was born on this day (Oct. 25) in 1881. Before he painted like this ⬇ … …Picasso painted like this ⬇ Makes sense that Picasso said: “Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.” What’s good for Picasso is good for us marketers. That quote (also attributed…
When it comes to being a great marketer, nothing is more important than… …what? … … … … … … … … … The answer: Insatiable curiosity. So says Brian Kurtz in his book Overdeliver… …and I agree. From Chapter 6 of Overdeliver: “If a copywriter I’m considering hiring doesn’t ask me for a ‘list history’ (every…
Recommended Book All the Light We Cannot SeeI usually recommend nonfiction/business books, but I’m making an exception today to share one of my all-time favorite novels. This is the story of a blind French girl and a German boy lives intertwine during World War II. I this book. And I learned yesterday: it has been made…
I came across a cool quote yesterday from Carla Bley. She was a jazz pianist and composer who passed away earlier this week, Austin Kleon shared her words in his newsletter: “Listening is how I started. I didn’t start when I was a piano player. I didn’t start as a composer. I started as a listener.”…