Posts in category Business Tips

“Content Boosters” Course 24-Hour Application Window is Now Open

Yesterday, I posted my third video in my series Why Your Content Needs a Boost. (If you missed it or the first video, you can watch them below.) Today, I wanted you to know that I am now receiving applications for my Content Boosters course. Watch the video below to learn: What I will teach you in this […]

5 Content Domination Lessons from 1920’s Furniture Maker (Now Popular Business Magazine Publisher) – VIDEO

Yesterday, I posted my second video in my series Why Your Content Needs a Boost. (If you missed it or the first video, you can watch them below.) Today, I have a third video that I think you’re going to really like… VIDEO #3: “5 Content Domination Lessons from a 1920’s Furniture Maker That Ended Up […]

The Declaration of Independence: An Example of the Power of Words (aka Content)

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Words Have Changed the World Words are powerful. The power of words has saved lives and taken lives. The power of words has created opportunities and shut doors forever on people’s hopes and dreams. The power of words has attracted huge crowds and given leaders unbelievable influence and also stripped leaders of their once powerful […]

I Did All of These Things Right and It Still Didn’t Sell Like I Wanted It To

When I put out my first book “How to Survive and Prosper in a Recession,” I did a lot of things RIGHT: I interviewed 20 top business, sales, and marketing experts (You can see who I interviewed here.) I got really great testimonials about the book (You can see those here.) I even purchased a […]

The Underlying, Neglected Reason Why Some Content Marketing is So Powerful

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NOTE: I begin this post below by talking about government, but this post really isn’t about government at all. It’s about a content marketing lesson. And it’s not just about any old content marketing lesson. It’s a content marketing lesson that reveals the underlying, neglected reason behind why some content marketing is so powerful. (And it […]

How Authors Can See Consistent, Increased Sales Growth from One Book to the Next

How Authors Can See Consistent, Increased Sales Growth from One Book to the Next

Back in March of this year, I went to a writer’s conference. My FIRST writer’s conference.  I met a lot of great people and heard a lot of great information. But my biggest revelation came when I heard two unrelated things: 1. I heard a panel of authors sharing their ups and downs of being […]

Why You Can’t Solve Your Biggest Problems or Seize Your Greatest Opportunities

A Lesson from a Smart Russian Smuggler A man named David Hunt tells a story I want to share with you today. It’s a story that reveals the problem we all have with overcoming our problems or seizing the opportunities in our lives. Listen to Hunt’s story and then I’ll explain what I mean… “Soviet leader […]

Can Your Prospects “Hear” Your Content Over All the Commotion in Their Lives?

I came across a great story about Cecil B. DeMille, one of the great movie makers of the early years in Hollywood. And this story reveals a problem that all of us have. It’s the problem we have with communicating to our prospects in a way that they actually “hear” us. Listen to the story and then I’ll […]

You Cannot Be Creative or See Breakthroughs If You Have the New Average Attention Span

In an article called How to Build Billionaire Habits by Nick Papple I just came across a statistic that’s crazy. Listen for yourself… “According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the average attention span has dropped from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds in 2013. That’s one second less than the attention span of a […]

Discovery Channel’s Surviving Exodus – Content Marketing for Movie Exodus: Gods and Kings

Content Marketing on Discovery Channel On Thursday, December 4th, my family and I were flipping through the channels and we came across a show on Discovery Channel called Surviving Exodus. We began watching the show and were quickly drawn in. It was hosted by Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul and it explained the plagues sent by God […]

NEW BOOK: 51 Content Marketing Hacks

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Are You Just Creating More Fodder for the Online Content Wasteland?

If you think you can just post average, “me too” content and see results, then you’re fooling yourself.

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