Do you like contests?  Especially ones you can win?
I love that kind, where everyone wins a prize.
Here’s one.
Review My Blog - And Win a Link!
What’s that?
On this blog, Money.Power.Wisdom, I’ve been posting
quite a lot lately - and many posts are provocative,
controversial or frank and forthright.
Many make for nice ‘review’ material - both positive
AND negative.
I’d like [...]

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A couple of days back, I ranted about a JV recruitment campaign.
Some interesting discussion followed, on the blog and via email, with many readers sharing unique perspectives on the issue. I woke up this morning to find a comment by Jermaine Griggs, who is right slap bang in the middle of what must be [...]

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This is a rant about joint venture managers.
I get many offers for joint ventures.
The initial invitation often mentions that Mr.X or Ms.Y is on board.  That information sometimes helps me make a decision about participating.  It’s social proof.  It works.
A few days before launch, there may be a note announcing a contest where top referrers [...]

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We are social animals. We love company, especially of our peers and friends. We thrive on relationships.
And in a digital era where electrons govern most of our behavior, work and even leisure, it isn’t surprising we are increasingly relying upon digital tools to further our relationships.
But are we doing it the right way? [...]

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What do you do when expectations raised by a hyped up launch of your traffic widget remain unfulfilled due to implementation problems and abuse by ‘gamers’?
Why, turn it from a ‘traffic widget’ into a ‘Seal of Approval’ - one that indicates your blog is ‘high quality’!
That’s the brilliant marketing master-stroke John Reese just used to [...]

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See this blog first so that what follows will make sense (I hope). Justin Kownacki writes about social media gatekeeping.
Justin, you remind me of myself some 7 or 8 years back, when in my little backwater niche of ‘Make Money Online - Internet Marketing’, I fretted and fumed in silence and ‘isolation’ about how [...]

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Want One EXTRA Hour Every Day?
Try my ‘Four Hour Workweek‘ strategy…
Last week, I finally bought Tim Ferriss‘ book, “The Four-Hour Workweek” - and read it through in one long sitting.
A lot of it I’m doing already - and it was validation that I’m not alone!
One important point I picked up (and am trying out) is [...]

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Are You Grateful?
I mean really, deeply grateful for everything you are, have, and can be?
Good for you if you answered “Yes”.
I wake up every morning with a small prayer of gratitude - because I’m alive.
This isn’t an accident or whim. In my professional life as a pediatric heart surgeon, I treat children - and [...]

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This was an eye-opener!
And no, I did NOT know a lot of this before watching this awesome video.

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I took a step back, and saw some startling similarities between Twitter and something in my offline world as a heart surgeon.
The Coffee Room!
Every hospital (and operating suite) has one. It’s where the team meets all too briefly in short breaks between a hectic schedule, to share snippets of conversation, touch base, keep connected.
A [...]

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