It hasn’t been officially declared yet, but it looks like we are in (or about to enter) another recession. (Click here to see the news results Google gives when you look up “recession”.) For that reason, I took one night recently and re-read both volumes of my books “How Your Business Can Survive and Prosper [...]
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People have been declaring that email is dead for years now. And 2020 is proving them more wrong than ever. Not only is email NOT dead, it’s on the verge of making a massive comeback. But don’t just take my word for it. The 4 Types of Email Newsletters – DigitalMarketer Is Email Marketing Dead? [...]
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If you’ve wondered why it’s been quiet around here it’s because I’ve been working on a “secret” project. Let me explain… After being involved in marketing in one form or another for 20 years, and after thinking and teaching about the unchanging fundamentals of marketing for UC Berkeley Extension for the last two years, I’ve [...]
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In my video below, you’ll discover some content marketing lessons and methods that you can learn from Christmas songs. I will reveal two important content marketing lessons that we can learn from Christmas songs. I will give you two takeaways that you can apply to your own content marketing. And you’ll learn three methods you [...]
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Christmas Content Marketing Examples There are example of content marketing, and lessons to be learned, everywhere. All you have to do is keep your eyes open and pay attention. There are even content marketing examples and lessons that can be found at Christmas time. Below is just one example. How Content Marketing Gave Birth to [...]
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I’m sorry to leave you hanging, but I’ll continue my series about the power of serialization and suspense as a content marketing strategy next week. (I figured that with Thanksgiving and Black Friday going this week, many people won’t have time to read part three.) If you haven’t read any of the previous lessons yet, then […]
I’ll continue my series about the power of serialization and suspense as a content marketing strategy next week. If you haven’t read any of the previous lessons yet, then check out the first two installments of the series: PART 1: How Content Marketers Can Use a Literary Technique That Made Charles Dickens Famous PART 2: How to Create Content […]
I’ll be continuing my series on about the power of serialization and suspense as a content marketing strategy. (See: How Content Marketers Can Use a Literary Technique That Made Charles Dickens Famous) But in honor of the new Charlie Brown movie, The Peanuts Movie, I thought I’d share a story about the real Charlie Brown. For those of […]
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 […]
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 […]
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” ― Richard L. Evans “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” ― John Greenleaf Whittier (*If you don’t have time to read this whole post, then […]
I am about to tell you how Neil Patel went from reselling car parts to becoming one of the top names in content marketing. And he did it by using an unusual hyrbid method that combines content marketing and content curation in a very unique and powerful way. But first, I need to tell you an important story. […]
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 […]
