Archive for December, 2009


A little Ayn Rand philosophy

Have you read anything by Ayn Rand? Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are both amazing books. In this black and white movie, Gary Cooper plays the architect Howard Roark and delivers his courtroom defense of why he dynamited the Cortland project. If you want the whole story, read the Fountainhead- but for a small taste [...]

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Twitter marketing with followe.rs

Have you heard of followe.rs yet? I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks, and thought I’d share my results so far. All I did is sign up, and do one blog post. Nothing else. The software is, as you probably guessed from the name, designed to get you followers. Well, here’s a screenshot [...]

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Will Smith- Law Of Attraction

Is this really about the Law of Attraction of the Law of Hard Work? The whole conversation takes a very interesting turn towards the end. I am a huge Will Smith fan, and some of the secrets of his success are right Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d553′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

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Oprah on “The Secret”

This is a great clip! Gotta love Oprah. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d551′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

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Serious Lessons From Recent MLM Failure…

Sometimes we learn more from failure than success. Let’s take the recent MLM failure of three companies. Efusjon, Buzzirk Mobile, and iJango. And let me make it clear that when I say “mlm failure,” I’m not saying the companies have gone under, but have simply had massive public image “crash and burn” experiences. First of [...]

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How People Screw Up “The Secret”

I can’t help notice how many “Secret” fans are still broke. They’re probably a happier broke, but still broke. And I can’t help thinking that they just don’t get it. Here’s an example: recently I was talking to a die hard “The Secret” fan about a challenge in our business. His advice was to sit [...]

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But I don’t want to LEARN anything!

I had an interesting experience with a Lighthouse Marketing System prospect last week. It was during a webinar Q&A. The response from everybody else was generally really good, people loved the info. But this one guy basically said, “But, I don’t want to have to learn anything, this feels like going back to school!” Here’s [...]

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Online Network Marketing Rants

I have a few rants about online network marketing- but (and going completely against my nature) I’ll keep each one short. The inspiration came as I listened to Dan Putnam, one of the best marketers I know, as he trained our Lighthouse Marketing subscribers this week. 1. Systems don’t work. I know, coming from a [...]

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“Followers”- Sweet New Twitter Marketing Tool

Followers really is a sweet twitter marketing tool. I know Steven, the developer, very well, and have kept an eye on this project right from the beginning, although I tested it out before preparing this blog post. Can’t be too careful when it comes to new development. But the results have been just as advertised: [...]

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Seth Godin On Blogging

I’m a big Seth Godin fan, so when I discovered this Seth Godin, Tom Peters clip on Nancy Johnson’s blog (turnonyourlight.com/blog) I had to grab it… there are some surprising, simple insights about blogging: Sooooo, if YOU aren’t blogging yet, get with the program! Be assimilated by the borg! Go for it! (By the way, [...]

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