Ask yourself The One Question and your answers will help you go where you want to go. This is like “The Secret” except its not complete bullshit. Story time: Years ago I was single and going out to bars with a married friend. He would always want to hit on women, would rarely muster the…
Category Archives: Learning
Bizarro World Leaks Affiliate Marketing Bollywood Film Starring Anik Singal
I just can’t stop laughing. The amateurs pose as strippers for ClickBank products, the felons do sweat lodges and the pros do Bollywood films to promote shit… I’m not even sure what he is promoting, whatever it is I bet it ain’t free and it ain’t funny what it does to your finances. I’m sorry Anik, I’m sure…
International Marketing – Giant Spreadsheet of Cultural Differences
Need a leg up on international campaigns? Use this giant interactive Excel to compare cultures, create ads that connect and avoid pissing money away.
Microsoft Sues Magic Bullet System and Amish Shah Along With Jay Styles
Microsoft is suing Amish Shah, Jay Styles and two companies (the creators of the Magic Bullet System guru product) for using Microsoft trademarks and cybersquatting on Microsoft trademarks. And for contributory infringement. This should send an epic shockwave through the “guru” ranks – The lawsuit talks about contributory trademark infringement and contributory cybersquatting. That means…
The One Word That Is Holding You Back
Do you remember this scene of The 300? Watch closely: There is no hesitation, and there is no undo, take back, or retreat. This is what comes to mind when thinking about life and choices. If you look closely at my blog, or any e-mail or IM you might have received from me, you will…
Avoid Getting Swindled This Holiday Season
If you haven’t read Robert Cialdini’s masterpiece: “Influence”, you’re a tool. I can even tell you what tool you would be… You’d be a plunger, ready to dive into a toilet full of shit – My shit to be specific. In this little story below there is a tale of how massive amounts of people…
How to Become Stupid
This is an anecdote that shaped my beliefs and views on intelligence – as a little follow-up to my last post on “Drive” by Daniel Pink. I’ve only shared this story with close family members, as it stereotypes and isn’t very scientific. That didn’t matter for my young mind – Young minds don’t care about…
Mastery is a Mindset
This is an excellent piece of the book “Drive” By Dan Pink The big a-ha! moment: If you believe intelligence is a fixed quantity, then every educational and professional encounter becomes a measure of how much you have. If you believe intelligence is something you can increase, then the same encounters become opportunities for growth….
That’s My Story, and I’m Sticking to It
That right there is a powerful agent of positive change. The power lies in SAYING that phrase and seeing how silly your stories sound. “That’s My Story, and I’m Sticking to It” That’s the phrase I began chirping every single time I said – or heard someone tell me- something that sounded even a tiny…
What About Guru Products?
Nothing is ever black and white – so here’s the skinny. You keep getting bombarded by “Product Launches”. What to do? Are they good? Bad? Evil? They are not all bad, and they are not all good. The major difference between a good product and a bad product is YOU. Yes, you. Not the product,…
Red Pill Books
IMPORTANT: I never, ever, EVER recommend the books I’ve assigned a 10 to. Chances are high you’re one of the 99% of people who can’t/won’t really enjoy those books. In the best of cases, you’ll hate me for suggesting it, in the worst case, you’ll wreck your life by taking the book as an absolute…
Exploiting and Avoiding the Fear of Loss
This video from a TED Talk by Laurie Santos is genius – it talks about one of the linchpins of high-pressure sales: Loss Aversion. In a nutshell – “People’s intuitions about how much risk to take varies depending on where they started with.” I really found it interesting to learn that loss aversion is…
Learn Internet Marketing
Last week I joined the Super Affiliate Twins’ Internet University. I have to say I’m impressed. Very positively impressed. Ryan and crew are all over the forums giving good solid advice and literally shepherding folks along. When they say that they teach all this about internet marketing, they aren’t joking – All the modules are…
ShoeMoney System Postmortem
The Shoemoney System should have been titled “The ShoeMoney Internet Marketing Hands-on Review”. It was clearly not geared towards me, or anyone that has half a clue – I thought Jeremy would go in-depth somewhere, but that was not the case. My bad, that sure was some money down the toilet… Jeremy’s toilet. So who…
Are Non-techie Newbies Doomed?
I can’t for the life of me imagine a complete newbie with little technical background trying to make money online… Not like this, at least. Seriously… What Shoe is trying to do with the Shoemoney System is laudable – Creating an approachable course. Now come on… How could a complete non-techie do this stuff? I…
Word of The Day
I love Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day. For a few years now they’ve e-mailed me a new word every single day. <Shameless ‘my dick is bigger than yours’ brag> My vocabulary size is around 75,000-80,000 (simple statistics) English words… And English is my second language… And no, the word “fuck” doesn’t account for 45,000 of…
Games People Play – Eric Berne M.D.
For the past five years I’ve taken a picture of the sky at sunset almost every day – to remind me I was here, to remind me I’m alive, in the now, and to remind me to take time to break out of my mental cage see the world as it truly is. When I…
“The Drip” Membership Site Management is for Smart Marketers and Retarded Customers
I absolutely hate the “Drip”. We’re talking about the modern membership site’s way of keeping you on forever by dripping you new content slowly. My two reasonably-sounding stories: 1 – I’m a batch person. I’m also a guy (like you couldn’t tell). Men try to optimize and maximize movements, time, etc – as opposed to…
Internet Marketing Gold Rush Mentality
Brilliant article from Ian Lurie on the Internet Marketing Gold Rush – via Ran Aroussi’s mailing list. Some questions for self-reflection: If you are selling something to people interested in making money online, who are you aligned with? Al or Seth? If you are interested in internet marketing, who are you talking to? Al or…
