This Blog Has Moved To A New Domain
Today is a big day, I moved my entire blog from www.BuddhaWriter.com to a more relevant domain name for an email copywriter:
To be honest, I didn’t want to move my domain.
The Math of Email Marketing
When I tell somebody I write emails for a living they can’t believe it. I mean, who would think that you could make money writing emails?
Heck, who in their right mind would pay you $250+/email? That’s nuts…
The short answer is: Smart people.
Here’s why:
Making An Ass of U and Me
Have you ever done something so often that you take it for granted? I mean, have you ever assumed that everybody knows something…
Only to discover that they don’t know it?
It’s a form of cognitive bias.
The Pin Head’s Guide To Marketing
You know, I hear a lot about using Pinterest for marketing. Or using Twitter or Facebook for marketing. But most people are missing the point.
Today it’s popular to talk about Pinterest Marketing, yesterday it was popular to talk about Fax Marketing, and tomorrow it will be something else.
The Easiest Way To Increase Sales
If you knew for certain that you could do one thing today that would make you more money in your business than you made yesterday…
If I could give you one simple way to get more sales today…
Would you follow my advice?
How To Get Paid To Be A Writer
I’m no Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, or Kurt Vonnegut. But I’ve been making my living as a professional writer for five years now. In those years I’ve come up with a few words of wisdom for aspiring writers. I’m sure that these suggestions will promptly be ignored.
The Marketing Morons of Twitter
Normally I’m a pretty laid back guy. When I’m hanging out on the Internet I’m meeting new people and sharing the neat things that I find on Twitter.
But lately, I’ve been running into an awful lot of marketing morons.
The Hypothetical Money Machine
I want you to imagine that you have a rusty machine in your garage with four glowing red buttons on it.
The first button is labelled “work”. The second button is labelled “work”. The third button is labelled “work”. The fourth button is labelled “money”.
If you push the first three buttons a piece of paper will spit out from the machine with a long list of tedious busy work to fill up your workday.
Hemingway Was A Bastard
When I first started writing to pay the bills this quote probably would have scared me away from my chosen profession. I had no idea how much of a bloody sacrifice writing for a living could be. Having written professionally for years now I’m sometimes tempted to discourage aspiring writers by sharing it: Continue reading
The Road To Personal Freedom
Today is “Family Day” here in Ontario. It’s a fairly new holiday but a large number of stores will be closed today.
The sad thing is that for many minimum wage workers this is one of the few days off they will get all year round to spend with their family.
These men and women will spend the rest of the year doing things they hate for people they hate for a couple bucks an hour.