My good friend, Ken McArthur is standing in a circus tent today
asking 2,000 people to spread a message of hope to teenagers who
don’t think that life is worth living.
I think it’s a great message of hope for anyone and would love to
see all of my readers think about spreading it today.
Here’s Ken’s simple message for […]

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280 visits
2,587 page views
9.24 pages/visit
11.79% bounce rate
00:09:56 average time on site
These figures tell the story of how members like my new ‘Private Group’.
On average, they explore TEN pages every visit - and spend close to 10 MINUTES exploring.
Remember the last website you spent 10 minutes at lately?
Yes.
That’s the point.
You can join the Private Group here… […]

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I did something unusual on Twitter yesterday.
I posted an affiliate link. To a sales page. This one:
“This 200% guarantee looks interesting!
http://tinyurl.com/4zwzy8 (aff link)”
One lady who was following me didn’t like it. She wrote:
” @drmani Allow me to unfollow you… twitter is
not a place for links to sales pages. At least
not in my […]

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The principle named after Vilfredo Pareto spotlights the “law of the valuable few”.
Or stated differently, 20% of the things you try will bring 80% of your success.
There are 2 approaches to applying this principle.
#1 - Try 100 different things, so that you’ll hit upon the 20 that work.
#2 - Try and come up with only […]

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The word means “the quality or state of agreeing or corresponding”.
In the sense I’m using it here, it stands for ‘walk your talk’ - or do what you say you will.
Congruence leads to trusting attention. As a corollary, when you break your word, you lose that hard-earned trust.
Whenever you’re tempted to use hype to […]

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I’m midway through the process of deleting over 3,500 subscribers from my email list.
And paused to share some thoughts about WHY I’m doing this.
1. “They May Buy Sometime” is a myth
We’ve all heard it. A silent subscriber turns into a multi-thousand dollar spender after years of receiving your valuable content and insight […]

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On September 12th, 2008, I did a 24-hour non-stop Twitter marathon to raise awareness and funds for congenital heart defects. The Heart Kids Tweetathon raised a little over $5,600 during the event (you can donate here, if you wish) and reached an audience of thousands with the message of Congenital Heart Disease awareness.
Here are […]

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Passion, Purpose and Persistence
The 3 P’s can crown the result of any venture with glory.
Combined with a community or tribe, and energized by a common, shared set of values, goals and principles, their power becomes magnified many times.
Change - useful, meaningful change - becomes not just possible. It becomes inevitable.
You are a part of […]

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What I’ve shared with you over the course of this event intially started out as a series of notes for a new book.
You have read the kernel of it. What it needs is for parts to be fleshed out and expanded, as well as a few more ‘case studies’ from guest contributors.
Here’s what I’m […]

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The insights I’ve shared with you are mainly self-realized. In the course of an amazing, tiring, often scary and even agonizingly painful journey as fund raiser and CHD evangelist.
The 3 P’s have fuelled and sustained my decade long effort to help fund heart operations for under-privileged Indian children who have no chance of affording […]

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