LinkedIn is heaven. It’s a place where you can talk about business, money, or sales and not get a pitchfork to the face. Over the years I’ve built an enormous presence on the platform. My posts have reached hundreds of millions of people (none of this is said to...
Writing online has changed my life in unthinkable ways. It can do the same for many of you. After asking via Twitter and email why you don’t write, it surprises me. Many of you don’t see yourselves as writers. Yet every day you write emails and send them to people — a...
Hate thrown at your face never feels good. I don’t care whether your Rocky with big balls of steel or Wonder Woman with a dangerous whip. Hate sucks. Over the last week I’ve read three nasty articles about me. Over the last 6-12 months I’ve read even more. The common...
Without an email list there is a Berlin Wall between you and your audience. An email list is a sledgehammer that collapses that wall. If you choose not to have one then you’re reliant on platforms that can limit your reach to favor ads or that may even go out of...
“Luckily you came in today, otherwise you’d be dead by the end of the year.” Those are the words a doctor said to a close family member. Last week we learned just how close they came to death. A rare blood disorder was discovered in some tests they had. It started...
Writing is bloody simple when you know how to stand out. My work stood out, mostly, because I’m a giant weirdo from Australia with a face only a mother could love. I’m cool with that. None of the stats in the headline are supposed to wow you or make me sound special....
