Reviews

Video Review: Built To Sell by John Warrillow

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to watch the video.] Note: I’m doing something different this time because, as much as I’ve wanted to, I haven’t been doing as many book reviews as I’d like. When I sit down to write them, they get forever long and [...]

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Review: The Sticky Ebook Formula

Regardless of what kind of online business model you have, at some point, you will want to consider writing an ebook. They can be a great way to increase your profitability and your ability to get your goodness out there in the world. What keeps many people from writing an ebook, though, is that they’re [...]

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Empire Building And Getting To The Heart of Money

I normally try to do offers and reviews on Tuesday, but I find myself in the strange position of wanting to give you enough lead time before it’s too late while also being too behind to do a proper review of both the things I want to share with you. I don’t want my behindedness [...]

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Writing Posts The Easy Way With TextExpander

[If you're reading this in via email or RSS, you'll have to click through to watch the video.] I’m going to say it up front: this is a long screencast, even for me. It weighs in at about 14.5 minutes. The star of this show is TextExpander, but Textmate also wins the prize for best [...]

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The Definitive Guide to Writing Better Blog Posts

I’ve read a lot of books on writing. I’ve also read a lot of ebooks and books on blogging. What I’ve been frustrated about, though, is that there aren’t a lot of books on writing blog posts that approach it from a writer’s perspective. Yes, becoming a better writer helps you write better blog posts. [...]

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The Creative Entrepreneur’s Guide to Linchpin

I’d normally start a book review by talking about the book, but this time, I’d rather talk about the author. Seth Godin has been called a revolutionary thinker, a pioneer, and a trendsetter, among other things. And while those descriptions are true, I think it’s better to understand Seth as a really good weatherman. A [...]

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Screencast: How Concentrate Helps You Focus and Interrupt Habits

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you might have to click through to see the video.] In a previous post, I talked about the application Concentrate and how it’s great at helping you interrupt the counter-productive habits you’ve formed. In today’s screencast, I show you how this works and how easy it is [...]

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The Kindle Is Still The Way To Go

Over the past six months or so, I’ve been doing a lot of research and thinking about e-readers, and I have a really large write-up in the works about them, but I want to go ahead and share the conclusions since I know you might want one or be thinking about getting one for someone. [...]

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Trust Agents, Ideaviruses, and the Retweet Misstep

The developers at Twitter rolled out a new retweeting feature in the last few days, and I’m not a big fan. A few people on Twitter asked me why I don’t like it, so I wanted to take a few minutes to explain why. By and large, I agree with most of what Lisa Barone [...]

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