by Naomi Dunford
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
by GuestAuthor
Sometimes being self-employed sucks.
You spend every waking hour (and some sleeping ones, too) working on your precious business – it’s your baby, your lover, your ever so slightly co-dependent best friend.
You spend so much time and energy on it that your real baby, lover, and best friend complain that there is nothing left for them.
But you can’t help it – you are obsessed. You are determined to share what you got with the world.
And sometimes people love what you’ve got, love you, and shower you with roses and orders and blog comments and 83% organic dark chocolate.
And sometimes? Sometimes, not so much.
Sometimes it’s dead quiet out there and you feel a tad exposed. You troll Twitter and everyone’s tweets are so peppy, all about how great their businesses are doing, you start to feel a tad bad. The story line, “What was I thinking?” starts sucking you in. Read More
by Johnny Truant
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
by Naomi Dunford
Today is my 6th anniversary. Jamie has not left me yet, and that deserves a party, doesn’t it?
Last year, we had a sale, but it was really boring. (Well, it wasn’t totally boring. The fifth anniversary is symbolized by wood, so the coupon code was wood. That’s not totally boring, right? OK, yes it is. Forget I asked. Keep reading and we’ll pretend this never came up.)
Anyway, this year we wanted to do something more interesting. Also, we wanted to put all the responsibility on your head so we could sit around and eat lots and lots of candy. (The sixth anniversary is the sugar and candy anniversary. A theory has been posed that this is to prevent the seven year itch. No-one is entirely sure on what this theory is based.)
Therefore, we unveil…
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Or choose your own sale. Whatever. But adventure is cooler. Read More
by Dr. Charlie
I just released some paper productivity planners, and the reason I’m telling you this is not because I want you to run over and buy them – though that would be cool – but instead because I’m going through the very thing that I’m going to be telling you today.
Few people actually like writing sales pages, and it doesn’t matter whether they write long sales pages or short sales pages – there are plenty of things we’d rather be doing. When you think about it, though, it’s easy to see why we hate it: writing your sales page causes a lot of overwhelm and Stuck because you know that the success of your sales is riding on that one page.
All of your hard work is resting on that page.
Your mortgage might be resting on that page.
Your credibility is resting on that page. Read More
