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

I have many things to say. You may take comfort in knowing that they are all small things.

An update on my ass

So, this one time? At a funeral? I slipped and fell down the funeral home steps?

Yeah, it turns out I broke my tailbone or something.

This is only making the list so lots of people can come in the comments and say “sorry about your ass”. I have to get my joy from somewhere, and there’s an outside chance of a Guinness Book of World Records win.

An update on the sale

249 of you lovely people (not including the emails Jamie got) have commented on the Choose Your Own Adventure sale post. Happy anniversary to me, indeed.

If you commented on that post or sent Jamie an email, you should have received an email from me saying, “Dude! Thanks! We’ll get back to you ASAP!” Read More

A weird revelation occurred to me in December. Around Christmastime, I realized that by the end of the month, I’d have launched 80 or 90 blogs and would have had my best month ever — and by “ever,” I don’t just mean since I’ve been doing this online thing. I meant that it would literally be my best month ever, and by nearly double my previous best month — all from setting up websites and blogs, and doing business consulting.

And at the same time, the most recent post on my blog was a rerun of last year’s “Christmas is Gay.”

Of course, that just seemed like an anomaly, so I looked back.

The post before that was “Cash is King,” about how I’m not going to use credit anymore and will buy literally everything with cash from here on out. Read More