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Call to action buttons are silent assassins. They are usually the feature that is least focused on when creating ads. That’s kind of strange considering that it’s the thing most clicked on in an ad. Buttons take all the hits (a brilliant pun where I’ve used the word “hits”...

I was dragged kicking and screaming (not literally, but it DOES make for a good story!) by my husband to a part of the country as far from my home in Seattle as it is possible to get, because of his job. I went — because I knew it was temporary — but I was miserable. I had given up the...

Went to 9 schools in 11 years of schooling. High school drop out. Back to University as adult. Got 4 degrees and PhD. Learned about business from Robert Kiyosaki – read his book cover to cover in the bookshop – was too tight on cash to buy it. Became a medical researcher. In the middle...

Entrepreneurial ADD. That’s what I call it. Yep, you know how it goes – You sign up for one “Make Money Online” program, read the ebook, watch the videos, download the MP3s, get pumped up about all the money you can make from applying the things you learned. Then you go and sign...

So last week, after a couple of months of preparation, I rolled out this new blog and published the very first post… and then I emailed my list to tell everyone about it. And the server crashed. Which was really, really lame… but on one level it was sorta funny – because there’s...

Writers block can be a nasty bug to catch. An equally nasty bug can be wading hour after hour over material that just isn’t coming out of you. The next thing you know, you have spent an entire work day filled with worrying and nothing to show for it. The goal of this article is to not only help...

Last year I wrote a note about this weird thing I call the “Discipline of Gratitude” – and it got a bigger reaction than almost anything I’ve ever published… so I decided to re-run it here now that I’ve got an “official” blog. And I couldn’t think...

Almost everyone has heard of that old quote: “You can get what you want by helping others get what they want.” Think about it. It’s absolutely the one of the truest statements I know. Here’s an example. This can relate to a lot of different situations. In this case it was an unhappy person/customer: I...

Seven years ago I was depressed, suicidal, ill and sorry for myself. And I was SO sick of myself! I became a coach as a way to dig myself out of my rut. I started helping people and it turned out that I was good at it. I turned my talent into a system and started The Coaching Institute. And I studied...