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Monthly Archives: March 2005

Step 30

The title of this entry, “Step 30″ refers to something many, many otherwise smart marketers hate to do. Finish stuff. “30″ is typesetter short-hand for “The End”. When I worked in the newsroom of my college newspaper, we all wrote “30″ on the bottom of the last page of copy. That let the typesetter know

Patience, Dude

I heard a great piece of advice the other day. Again. (Sometimes I need to hear good advice about a dozen times before it “takes”.) It’s simple: Don’t put anything in an email you wouldn’t want to see repeated tomorrow in the newspaper. It’s also violated on a regular basis by people who should know

Your Own Private Chemical Dump

Sunday, 9:07pm Reno, NV “When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.”  (Mae West) Howdy… A friend, who is briliant at marketing, asked me a question today about writing that has implications for most people. This guy is a decent writer… but it takes him forever to