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Understand The Road You’re On

I loved my father. And one of the things I loved the most was his sense of humor. One time we were driving across country from our old home in North Dakota to our new home in Washington State. Alongside the freeway were telephone poles. Mile after mile. Hundreds of miles after hundreds of miles. […]

Reflective Communications

A few posts back I talked a bit about how the sender and the receiver each affect the messages that pass between them. If you haven’t read John Gray’s book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, you should. In addition to explaining some obvious truths about the species, the book is chock full […]

Multiple Streams of Reward

If you’re in business, you may have heard the advice that you should cultivate “multiple streams of income.” Of course your business has a primary stream. Let’s say you sell a specific product. Additional streams of income might be related products, “spin-off” products, or even an unrelated business. In addition to simply giving you more […]

Ahh Nostalgia . . .

If you’re just a little bit overwhelmed with the world around you, consider conjuring up some memories. The human mind is a very interesting place. If I were to go back to school, I’d make a point of learning more about it. In particular, about memory. Your memory can be affected by many things, including […]

The Second Most Amazing Thing

My second biggest pet peeve is when someone gives you information that BEGS for an explanation or additional information, but they don’t give you the context. A perfect example: “Sao Paulo (Brazil), the world’s second-largest city, has a population of just over ten million.” Okay, maybe I’m just one of those people who needs to […]

Promotion Monkey Goes Live

It’s finally here.The Promotion Monkey newsletter — Monkey Business — is finally here. Please sign up today. Signing Bonus When you sign up today, you will receive our super-bonus inaugural mailing. This includes A 12-page Promotion Monkey Newsletter A 60-minute audio CD on creating spinoff products and marketing them on the Internet Printed PowerPoint slides […]

Welcome Back To School!

Wow. I can always tell when school is back in because there’s an explosion of activity on one of my articles: The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living. You’ve probably heard those words before. They’re from Socrates, at his trial for corrupting the youth by encouraging them to think critically about the government and society. […]

A Monkey is Born

After lo these many days . . . the Monkey stirs. I am proud to announce that Promotion Monkey memberships will be available September 1st, 2008. This is not a technology-focused adventure. If you promote anything on the Internet, then you should give the Promotion Monkey a whirl. Please check it out at PromotionMonkey.com Thank […]

Children Know Everything

Fact One: The State of California sucks out loud. As a place to do business . . . it rates lower than PSS from Microsoft. So the Gubinator says . . . we have a budget crisis. Our budget crises make the national debt look small.  🙁 So all state workers will be paid minimum […]