I ran across some material about persuasion I had not seen before. This is about how to write persuasively though it applies just as well to speaking. What was especially interesting was seeing how it mapped as much to winning the presidency as selling soap. Using concepts such as appealing to peoples dreams and fears, … Read more
I decided to take a day trip to Tahoe and see what snow was left after the epic winter snow fall. I took the I-80 route up to stop by Squaw Valley which is supposed to be open through July. There wasn’t any snow left until near Donner Pass at 7000 feet and then quite … Read more
There were a couple of final back and forth on my finance guy Phil’s project but we got the final draft completed. Neither of us wanted to work on it over the weekend so that worked out well. I wrote the draft of the sales page for the email marketing online course I’ll be building … Read more
I had an interesting conversation with my girlfriend Chris about pricing in her academic coaching / tutoring side business. She has an adult client now who pre-paid for an online training / educational course to finish her degree (or something like that). And this student says there a bunch of other adult students doing the … Read more
I got the draft of a paper finished and sent off to my finance guy for him to review. I’m helping him edit it and complete it for a project he has. I saw some additional signups for the online networking group. I’m not expecting many people will actually show up. It’s hard for people … Read more
I continue to get people accepting my invites to my email marketing list. The response rate is above 25% which continues to surprise me. I also sent out a special extra email to my list about the online networking group Steve and I are starting. Got 7 initial responses which I think is quite good … Read more
I had a meeting with Phil my finance guy to go over a project we are going to work on. It’s going to involve more writing than I expected but that will be fine. It pays and is going to lay the groundwork for future marketing work we do together. I’m pretty pleased with the … Read more
Another quiet and relaxing day. I spent a lot of it doing some reading. I also made good progress on the sales page for my online email marketing course. I think this will be a short entry. Yes.
I had a pretty quiet and relaxing Saturday. I’ve been eating well for the last week and I think it’s been having a positive effect. I’ll know more in a couple weeks. (Eating well means very low carb. What the kids on Instagram call Keto). I finished the marketing analysis for the email marketing online … Read more
So I’m doing this thing to build my marketing email list for my business. When I add people to my marketing email list they get an automated welcome message letting them know a little more about the list and asking the favor of emailing me back with their biggest business challenge. It’s a way to … Read more