Beginnings

Are you struggling to make progress on a project, a business, or something in your personal life? Find these two points of clarity for a map out of “the land of Stuck.” The difference between people who are ultra-productive and the rest of us isn’t willpower. It isn’t intelligence, or time, or money, and it […]

Ready to launch a digital product? Here’s are the first steps to get you moving … One of the greatest things you can do to boost your income, or just expand your options, is to launch a digital product. The tools, platforms, and options for these are better now than they ever have been. So, […]

How do we know we’re successful? How do we set up the rules of our own game so that they serve us, and give us a more meaningful life? Jonathan Nation left a nice comment on an earlier episode about the definition of success: … What is success? What is that vision you are striving […]

The keys to good sponsored content or native advertising, content for B2B organizations, and how to make connections with the big-audience content publishers … It’s Independence Day in the U.S., and time for a Q&A! And no, those things aren’t really related at all. In this 25-minute episode, I answer questions on: Techniques for writing […]

Is an “abundance mindset” the same thing as wishing really hard and making something magically appear? I don’t think it is. Here’s why … As you may have seen in my podcast a couple of weeks ago, my friend Julie Cairns’ documentary The Abundance Code has been premiering for free in the past week. (And […]

When is it smart to keep your business’s “trade secrets” — and when should you blow them up? How much sharing is too much? As I was writing a quick introduction to Rand Fishkin over on Copyblogger, I got to thinking about this “transparency” buzzword. When is it good business to play your cards close […]

Language is complicated, and in the context of shifting cultural norms, it gets even more complicated. So the question comes up: Is it OK to swear in our content marketing? We had a bit of a dust-up on Copyblogger a few years back, and every once in awhile the topic comes back up again. The […]

No, it’s not a simplistic “Secret,” but there are some very pragmatic benefits to adopting a mindset of abundance. I’m going to be in a documentary! It’s called The Abundance Code, and it’s about folks who have worked through varying kinds of constraints and found a more fulfilling path. (Both financially and personally.) All told […]

No, it’s not a simplistic “Secret,” but there are some very pragmatic benefits to adopting a mindset of abundance. I’m going to be in a documentary! It’s called The Abundance Code, and it’s about folks who have worked through varying kinds of constraints and found a more fulfilling path. (Both financially and personally.) All told [...]

Content marketing has been a hot buzzword for awhile now, but it’s tricky to pull off until you understand this context. Once upon a time, combining relationship-building content with solid sales strategy was a weird idea. Now it’s pretty mainstream — but a lot of folks are still missing the underlying context that makes it […]