Category Archives: Business Essentials
When It’s Okay to Let Your Business Fail
This is a guest post by Ryan Sullivan of No More Bacon. Now, if you know me, you know I’m not a fan of guest posting. A fact I like to ramble on about here, on Twitter, and pretty much any soapbox I can find. So why is Ryan here with a guest post? One, [...]
How Writing Advice is Killing Your Writing, Part 2 – Personality
The internet is gigantic. There are billions and billions of pages of content, and the majority of them suck huge donkey anus in a bad bad way. So, tell me honestly, what do you think you’ll get if you add to it twenty more pages of polite, dry, stilted, boring corporate bullshit web copy? And [...]
How Writing Advice is Killing Your Writing, The Series – Part 1
Reading bad writing is like eating half-done macaroni. It’s almost satisfying, but mostly leaves you wanting to order out from the corner Chinese restaurant that gives you vicious diarrhea. What’s got me all grumbly now? Last week I read a guest-post about writing better copy. It was, ironically, perfectly fit for a funeral home brochure, [...]
Tired of needing advice? Here’s one way to stop it forever.
These are the questions that plague us. “Should I start a business?” “Should I write a book about that?” “Should I try to sell my paintings?” Of course the answer is: Yes, if you want to. And you probably DO want to, else you wouldn’t have asked the question. It doesn’t even warrant discussion. But [...]
Giving people what they want
If you’re confused about the success of your landing page, squeeze page, your ebook sales, click-through rates, SEO, CRO, percentage of sign-ups, new RSS subscribers, unsubscribers to your newsletter, bounce rate or virtually any other metric that touches upon human attention, tattoo this to something close by: People are looking for stuff. Just help them [...]
