Archive for April, 2006


Common Idiocy

A long time ago, I learned a simple rule of life: When the crowd rushes off in a lather to the right… I take a serious look at going left instead.
You don’t have to be a student of history for very long before it becomes blaringly apparent that the “common wisdom” of any culture […]

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Being Told “No”

One of the fun parts of watching The Apprentice is seeing how younger, less experienced people handle business decisions. I’m sure that most of America is clueless about how they, personally, would solve any of the tasks given… but for veteran entrepreneurs and business owners, it’s refreshing to be presented with business puzzles, and […]

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Well, How Serious ARE You?

Quick note before I jet off to Washington, DC:
I’ve teamed up with Perry Marshall, Dr. Harlan Kilstein, and David Garfinkel to put together a whole new series of teleseminars… on a white-hot subject that has gotten almost zero attention from other “guru’s”.
Yet… what we’re gonna talk about is the KEY to putting together all the […]

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I’m So Wired In, It’s Scary

In case anyone still doubts just how wired I am into the culture… consider this:
While writing my Rant newsletter last month, I went off about the wonders of “smell-o-vision”… an absurd gimmick used a few times back in the fifties, in a few theaters: While you watched the movie, a little box under your […]

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The Schmuck Vs. The Good Buddy

There’s a lot of discussion these days about frequency — specificially, how often you should email your house list.
There are two schools of thought now in the cyber-marketing community: One, the “Vikings” who treat everyone who opts in as a resource to be pillaged and re-pillaged until it’s burnt to the ground. These […]

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The Bane Of Integrity

Just now walked back into my office after… yeah, I know… watching The Apprentice.
I feel odd, too. The wonderful woman I share my life with disagrees whole-hearted with me on this, and we usually agree.
But this time, I actually felt something other than raw amusement at the end of the show. I’ve always […]

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