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13 Reasons Why Direct Response Promotions Fail and What To Do About It

May 30, 2018
13 Reasons Why Direct Response Promotions Fail and What To Do About It

All these years later, I finally broke down and took notes on the Clayton Makepeace – Makepeace Business System course. In case you’ve never heard of it before, this was one of the final trainings the legendary copywriter Clayton Makepeace put together. It sold for $795 dollars and it was designed to show what he […]

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The Four Abilities You Need For Mastering Knowledge Work

February 8, 2018
The Four Abilities You Need For Mastering Knowledge Work

Today I want to share with you the notes I took for Day 20 of the Eben Pagan Seeds of Success Course which was focused on the topic of mastering knowledge work. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says that a person graduating college today will have 10-14 different jobs and 3-5 different career changes […]

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Are You Guilty of Being Delusional About Your Productivity?

January 23, 2018
Are You Guilty of Being Delusional About Your Productivity?

Today I want to share some of my notes with you that I took on the Dan Kennedy Renegade Time Management course. The ultimate good news/bad news joke about being an entrepreneur is… “The good news is: You’re your own boss. The bad news is: You’ve got a REAAALLLY shitty, dysfunctional, and incompetent boss.” An […]

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Make a Big Entrance or Don’t Enter At All

May 3, 2017
Make a Big Entrance or Don’t Enter At All

The police had been alerted that the 7-year-old version of myself and my 6-year-old brother had gone missing. When we didn’t walk in the door at the approximate time we did every day after the yellow bus stopped off in front of our apartment complex… my mom called the school. If we weren’t there, where […]

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Leading You, Me, and We: Helping One Person Become Their Best Self

February 2, 2017
Leading You, Me, and We: Helping One Person Become Their Best Self

The notes I’m taking on the Eben Pagan “Leading You, Me, and We” 3-day marathon seminar continue. Jesus, this thing is fucking LOOONG. And the reason for this is because it is so thorough. This seminar is divided up into sections – Leading Yourself… Leading One Other Person… and Leading a Group. Each of those […]

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The Kind of Marketing That Creates The Very Best Customers–Part 2 of 2

January 21, 2017
The Kind of Marketing That Creates The Very Best Customers–Part 2 of 2

Having marketing that creates the very best customers has a TON to do with how fascinated your customers are with you. This can be some of the very best news you have ever received if you’re in an underdog position where you’re up against the most established competitors in your industry who have all the […]

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The Kind of Marketing That Creates The Very Best Customers–Part 1 of 2

January 10, 2017
The Kind of Marketing That Creates The Very Best Customers–Part 1 of 2

Once upon a time I was at an event chilling in the green room with all the heavy hitters there and a dispute broke out between two of the high profile dudes. The arguing got pretty heated with one of them telling the other they could step outside if the other guy wanted to keep […]

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