BlogRush died.
John Reese just announced on his blog that he’s shutting it down.
I predicted it wouldn’t work - and explained why, while saying I hoped I would be wrong… even suggesting another way it could be re-positioned with a better chance of working well for members.
Anyway, that’s history.
John’s wrong about one thing, though. He [...]

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Twitter trumps email.
Every time.
That’s my opinion.
Twitter limits anything you say to a maximum of 140 characters. For messages needing lengthier prose, you need to point your followers to a web site, blog or report.
Email, though permitting longer notes, is often more ‘acted upon’ when the message is brief and ‘to the point’. This [...]

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Do you tell lies?
Wait! Don’t answer yet.
Let me tell you a joke and share a statistic with you first.
This guy goes to meet his father-in-law-to-be:
Guy: “I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I don’t gamble. I don’t chase women.”
FIL: “Don’t you have any vices at all?”
Guy’s friend (who has tagged along): “None sir. He [...]

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Twitter, like all social networks, can be a serious time sump, sucking away your productive time.
With everything going on in my busy life, I often have no more than 10 minutes to spend on Twitter daily.
Here is how I manage those 10 minutes - to maximize my impact on Twitter. You can follow this [...]

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An inspirational post that’s written on hooks that bring up unpleasant, distasteful, and painful thoughts and feelings?
There are so many issues I personally hate or stay away from in Gail Goodwin’s recent blog post - which makes it all the more amazing in how inspirational the message is.
Gail talks about things like:
War
It is abhorrent to [...]

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I’m a heart surgeon.
I could get a consultant’s position at one (or many) hospitals, see patients who come to my out-patient clinic, and operate on the ones who need treatment.
Instead, I chose a different route. To reach out to a section of patients who do not come to a hospital - because they can’t [...]

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Kevin Riley is an infopreneur who gives away amazing
value in his little $7 reports. I’ve told him many
times to raise his prices, but he won’t listen!
This has been going on for YEARS.
So, when I saw he was launching a new product at a
fair price, I was intrigued.
“He’s finally come to his senses,” I told [...]

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