I will write quickly and avoid my usual slickly manufactured wit because the sooner I get this blog post written, the sooner I can go downtown and drink margaritas while shameless fans throw their panties at me.

For many moons, we have been getting requests for two things. One, more audio. Two, more products that are specific to industries and professions. (Also, more videos, which we might get to this weekend. I mean, hello?! Have you SEEN the Blowjob Barbie picture?)

Word on the street is that if people have to read one more ebook, they’re going to off themselves, and y’all are sick of generic advice that forces you to say things like, “Yeah, but how the fuck does that apply to ME?”

Therefore, we made stuff. Read More

Yes, I am in Austin at SXSW (South by South West Interactive, the conference for cool kids like myself). Out of respect for the 26,348 of you who are NOT at SXSW, I will try not to talk about it too much. I’ve been where you are and I know how lame it is to have every blog you read turn into a starfucking extravaganza about a conference you’re not at.

Moving on.

I read a lot of books.

This is easy, because they keep showing up free in my mailbox. The books I read tend towards the Thought Leader category — books like Linchpin and Trust Agents and A Whole New Mind.

These are good books. Great ones. I couldn’t do what I do without them. Some books I probably couldn’t live without. Read More

The other night, I went out for dinner with Michael Bungay Stanier, author of Do More Great Work. (Totally not an affiliate link because the Amazon affiliate program is balls.) I have hung out with Michael on several occasions and every time I think he can’t get any cooler, sure enough, he does. So when he said he was going to be in London for the day, I snatched up the chance to hang out with him.

(When you read my memoirs, you will be able to hear the full and juicy details of the conversation I had with Jamie leading up to this meeting, but I’ll give you the highlights here: Read More

In somewhat related news, I’m going to Florida! (The relatedness of this news will make itself apparent shortly.)

We’ve been getting a lot of questions on the IttyBiz cell phone hotline, as well as through every other medium imaginable, asking what we think of Scribe SEO. I was going to tell you when the hoopla surrounding it died down, probably when I got back from Florida.

Then the lovely Brian Clark — chief geek at Scribe HQ — got in touch to say, “Um, hello? Didn’t you say your people really wanted this? The fucking promotion ends today, jackass.” (It’s entirely possible he didn’t actually call me a jackass, but it makes for a better story.)

Because I am unable to read, I didn’t realize this before. Read More

Email. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. Google Buzz. Ponderous. Tumblr. Blogs.

Hmm. That’s a lot of stuff.

Let’s play a little imagination game.

For perspective, we’ll start by looking at my numbers. There are 25,000 or so people reading this blog. There are around 20,000 reading my newsletters. There are 6,000 on Twitter, a few hundred on my much ignored Facebook. Let’s assume that, eliminating duplicates, there are 30,000 or so people regularly tuning into my stuff.

Now that we’ve done that, we’ll totally ignore it. (It was just for perspective anyway.) Let’s pretend to erase every one of those people, and start from zero. We’ll have everything go along at the pace it’s going now, but we’ll pretend I don’t already have 30,000 readers, fans, followers or general tuners-in reading, fanning, following, or generally tuning in. Read More