Blog comment sections can be a great place to hang out, relax, discuss, share your views, learn, network and generally interact with other people. Use the comment section well, and you can enjoy great benefits. Use it poorly and you can… … kill someone else’s business. The comments you leave may cost that blog owner [...]
Drive-By Shooting Special: Go Smalley
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Harry pushed the button and the window of the Solstice slid down, the wind ruffling his hair. The night air felt great, and he was in an unusually good mood. He didn’t even complain at James’ continual radio-station switching. “If you see someplace to stop for food, I’m buying,” he offered. “I could go for [...]
How Good is Your First Draft?
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Anne Lamott, in her book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, suggested that every writer suffering writer’s block should remember that the person is allowed to produce what she calls “shitty first drafts.” At this juncture, James would like to say that this is a business blog of the most inoffensive nature, [...]
New Projects Are A Piece of Cake
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I like cake. I especially like watching talented people create incredible cakes, like Chef Duff on Ace of Cakes. Week after week, Duff and his crew at Charm City Cakes keep cranking out cake after amazing cake. Go ahead. Have a peek at what these guys do. I’ll wait. Sometimes I wonder exactly how the [...]
Selling Through Scarcity: Screwing It Up
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This is the fourth post in our sales and marketing tactics series. Prior posts include Afraid of Marketing or Just Turned Off, How Urgency Gets You To Buy, and Is Scarcity a Scam. And now for today’s post… how scarcity backfires. We’ve learned that scarcity and urgency do work to persuade many a person to [...]
