To be blatantly salesy is like using a leaky bucket to fetch water from a stream. I was at a friend’s house and he got a call on his home phone. He asked me to grab it for him. I picked up the phone, heard the click that transferred me to an operator, and could make out the noise of a busy office. The person on the other end spoke in... more
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about a business idea he had. It was a pretty solid idea with proven demand and he was in a good position to execute on it. He has a relevant audience, the financial resources, and could get a team together quickly. There were two things preventing him from pulling the trigger. He didn’t... more
You’re surfing Facebook and run across a quiz about sculpting your abs. You click through and it has a nice title and... more
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To be blatantly salesy is like using a leaky bucket to fetch water from a stream. I was at a friend’s house and he got a call on his home phone. He asked me to grab it for him. I picked up the phone, heard the click that transferred me to an operator, and could make out the noise of a busy office. The person on the other end spoke in... more
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about a business idea he had. It was a pretty solid idea with proven demand and he was in a good position to execute on it. He has a relevant audience, the financial resources, and could get a team together quickly. There were two things preventing him from pulling the trigger. He didn’t... more
You’re surfing Facebook and run across a quiz about sculpting your abs. You click through and it has a nice title and the description makes you want to dive right in – so you do. Something is off. The quiz questions seem irrelevant. You answer a few but feel like you’re being shortchanged so you click the back button and write the... more
To be blatantly salesy is like using a leaky bucket to fetch water from a stream. I was at a friend’s house and he got a call on his home phone. He asked me to grab it for him. I picked up the phone, heard the click that transferred me to an operator, and could make out the noise of a busy office. The person on the other end spoke in... more
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about a business idea he had. It was a pretty solid idea with proven demand and he was in a good position to execute on it. He has a relevant audience, the financial resources, and could get a team together quickly. There were two things preventing him from pulling the trigger. He didn’t... more
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Does your brand exist to make a lot of money or does it have a deeper reason why? Seriously, why was your company... more
Marketese is your enemy. Marketese kills your conversions. Marketese is to be fought with extreme prejudice. If... more
To be blatantly salesy is like using a leaky bucket to fetch water from a stream. I was at a friend’s house and he got a call on his home phone. He asked me to grab it for him. I picked up the phone, heard the click that transferred me to an operator, and could make out the noise of a busy office. The person on the other end spoke in... more
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about a business idea he had. It was a pretty solid idea with proven demand and he was in a good position to execute on it. He has a relevant audience, the financial resources, and could get a team together quickly. There were two things preventing him from pulling the trigger. He didn’t... more
You’re surfing Facebook and run across a quiz about sculpting your abs. You click through and it has a nice title and the description makes you want to dive right in – so you do. Something is off. The quiz questions seem irrelevant. You answer a few but feel like you’re being shortchanged so you click the back button and write the... more
To be blatantly salesy is like using a leaky bucket to fetch water from a stream. I was at a friend’s house and he got a call on his home phone. He asked me to grab it for him. I picked up the phone, heard the click that transferred me to an operator, and could make out the noise of a busy office. The person on the other end spoke in... more
