What do you do, when you work really hard on something, run it by the people you respect the most and the reviews are NOT want you hoped for? Getting feedback is an “interesting” exercise. While I don’t believe in the “the masses rule” over individual expression, it’s clear that […]
You have to realize by now that my whole life is centered around having a significant impact and transformation in the lives of the people I connect with and if we aren’t together, we don’t connect! And while we can have a connection on the Internet, there is NOTHING like […]
If you are anything like me you can take years to do what you could do in a week.
You think, plan and try to figure out the “best” thing to do and then when you do something, you do it half-way and get half-way results — or worse.
My father contributed this article from an unknown author … Harvey MacKay, tells a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved this point. He was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up, the first thing Harvey noticed was that the taxi was […]
He’s ugly, vulgar and abusive, but he does know how to run a business. Let me tell you a story, because …. It’s almost Independence Day It’s time to clean-up MY act I want to kickstart YOURS! Take a lesson from foul mouthed, abusive,”makeover” chef, Gordon Ramsay, the brute of “Kitchen […]
The national headline this morning is “Amtrak Train Derails in Philadelphia, Killing at Least 5 and Injuring Dozens,” but what if it were, “Nice Guy in Philadelphia Kills at Least 3 and Injures Dozens – Claims He Did Nothing.”
Shel Horowitz is working on his 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (Morgan James, 2016)” and asked me the question … “Can you give me 500 to 1500 words (shorter is better) on how the work you’re doing allows the business community to profit while meaningfully addressing hunger, poverty, war, and/or catastrophic climate change?”
I had the honor of interviewing Seth for my best-selling book “Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions, and Make a Difference in a Noisy World,” and I wanted to share two stories that he told me to help me illustrate how small actions can make a big difference, that I used as the prequel to my book, “The Impact Factor: How Small Actions Change the World.” It was a gift Seth gave me without any expectation it would ever pay off for him. Now I’d like to pass this gift onto you.
KICKSTARTER INFO: I’m kicking around Kickstarter Rewards for the crowdfunding campaign for The Impact Factor movie. In Yancey Strickler’s Creative Mornings presentation, he explains how a project that reaches 30% funding has a 90% chance of being successfully completed, so it’s a good idea to have 30% of your rewards […]
Hey Folks, WAY back at the start of 2009, I ranked every single headline that I wrote in 2008 for open rate percentage. I thought you might be interested in the results. Here are the top 10 Open Rate E-Mail Subject Lines for 2008: [firstname], here’s your results [firstname], Unbelieveable! […]
