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Entries from July 2008

Make your message compelling: Podcamp 3 talk handouts

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Thank you to everyone who came to my Podcamp 3 presentation on how to make your message compelling! Here is the handout from the presentation. Enjoy!
Link: make-your-message-compelling-handouts-v1

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Tags: Misc

Does humor work in large doses?

July 17th, 2008 · 19 Comments

Quick question… In my podcast, I use a lot of humor. The humor is almost always tangential to the actual point. After all, how funny are file folders? Not very. But file folders being used as emergency underwear? Er, hilarious.
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Tags: Writing

Does email overload help us? You need to understand the costs and benefits.

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can handle it just fine.
Sure. In what universe?

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Tags: Misc

What’s a good name for an e-mail overload product?

July 10th, 2008 · 15 Comments

Update 8/8/08: Name chosen! The product now exists! You are Not Your Inbox, available at http://www.YouAreNotYourInbox.com !
I’m in the final stages of developing a product that helps people combat e-mail overload. Could you help me choose a title? The subtitle will describe the product; the main title should be catchy, PR-worthy, etc.

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Tags: Misc

Your little voice may give you better advice than you know.

July 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Have you ever wondered how certain corrupt businesspeople can keep spouting great, moral words while doing the exact opposite in their behavior? You wonder how they can wax eloquent about the need to give customers high-quality products while they happily substitute inferior quality raw materials to save costs. You wonder: are they insane? Probably not. [...]

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Tags: Tips

What’s your impression of long-form sales letters?

July 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

This link arrived in a solicitation. I’ve read books about these “long-form sales letters” and was wondering what people think of them? The link is www.membershipsitebootcamp.com.

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How do you set your agenda for the day?

July 7th, 2008 · 11 Comments

As you know from listening to my podcast, I keep my TO DO list on paper. It keeps me honest about keeping it a reasonable length, and ruthless pruning items that I’m never going to do.
But even so, my list has far more items on it than I can do in any given day. So [...]

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Tags: Problems-solved