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The power of a clear solution (close sales easily)

The power of a clear solution (close sales easily)

Your prospect wants a clear solution — it will make them happy to give you money… In selling, there’s practically nothing more powerful than clarity.  Clarity that your product or service will solve your prospect’s problem. With clarity, it makes it easy for them to...
Build A Thriving Client Business

Build A Thriving Client Business

Do you know the 14 milestones you’ll pass in building a thriving client business? I’ve just recorded the introduction video to the brand new and revamped Client-Getting Blueprint training for BTMSinsiders.  I’ll be adding it to the catalog and updating BTMSinsiders...
3-phase paid traffic strategy (for your funnel & entire biz)

3-phase paid traffic strategy (for your funnel & entire biz)

Earlier this week, I was on the phone with Perry Marshall, one of the top paid traffic experts in the world… We were talking about his upcoming Definitive Traffic Seminar. … And the challenge with getting traffic today. Buying traffic online used to be a Wild West....
How to get to Inbox Zero (and stay that way)

How to get to Inbox Zero (and stay that way)

Last week, I got back to Inbox Zero… This is the mythical state where your email inbox doesn’t have anything left in it. The last time I was there was right before going on our family trip to Yellowstone…  In early summer 2017.  (And even then, that was just my work...
How to Quit Your Job & Start Your Business…

How to Quit Your Job & Start Your Business…

10 years ago TODAY, I walked out of my last job, for good… A decade! Seriously, that seems a little strange.  It feels like forever ago, and also just yesterday. I quit my job.  No more cubicles.  No more 9-to-5.  No more heavy-handed boss whose bad mood had the...
Retire and become a copywriter, consultant, or coach?

Retire and become a copywriter, consultant, or coach?

“Retire this year, and still make as much money as most doctors…” It was a STELLAR big idea, for Paul Hollingshead’s pitch for the AWAI Six-Figure Copywriting program. In fact, I’ll bet most of my readers who are copywriters (whether pro or aspiring) owe at least some...
How to become an expert in any field, fast…

How to become an expert in any field, fast…

I originally wrote this article in May 2016… Seems even more relevant — and enlightening — and powerful today. I have the kids at home today and am trying to spend as little time working as possible, hence the reprint.  Tomorrow we’ll be back to fresh Breakthrough...

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt [One Big Idea]

This will help with your New Year’s resolutions and goals…   Have you ever struggled to meet your goals? Maybe you procrastinated.  Maybe you found them too hard and gave up.  Maybe you got distracted, and moved on to the next thing… Maybe the same thing is going...
Stop calling yourself a copywriter

Stop calling yourself a copywriter

I’ve been in the copywriting game for almost 15 years now… I’ve been a marketing employee who does copywriting. I’ve been a freelance copywriter. I’ve been a copy chief and supervisor — recruiting, hiring, and firing copywriters. I’ve written about and taught...
What’s next for BTMS?

What’s next for BTMS?

What’s next?  In short: even more value… I’m putting even more time, energy, effort, and expense into creating more value for YOU in 2020.  But there is a catch, described below… Today’s article will be a little different. Instead of sharing a lesson or insight on...
What to do when clients don’t pay… [8 strategies]

What to do when clients don’t pay… [8 strategies]

This is part of why I started requesting 50% of my fee BEFORE starting work… I remember reading about this from both Gary Halbert and Dan Kennedy, very early in my copywriting career. Both had worked with very entrepreneurial clients.  And the more entrepreneurial a...