Toms Shoes – Business That Inspires

It was my daughter's birthday last week and she wanted a pair of shoes; not just any shoes, a pair of Toms shoes'.

If you've never heard of Toms, they not only have cool shoes, the company was founded on an idea that would provide shoes for needy children around the world.  

So I placed my daughter's shoe order at Toms and shortly afterward I happened to check my mailbox which had the latest Costco magazine in it. I had to chuckle because whose picture was on the front cover but Blake Mycoskie, the owner and founder of Toms Shoes!

Costco was featuring an interview they did with Blake about his extremely successful Toms shoe store. I was already fairly familiar with Blake, his business and his cause, but as I read the interview, I learned even more about Blake, his business and his lifestyle -  it was inspiring. [Read more...]

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Experience Mapping By Karen Newman

Have you ever heard of experience mapping? It's not a term I was familiar with until I met Karen Newman.  Karen is the author and creator of the exciting book called just that, 'Experience Mapping'.

This is a term coined by Karen that covers everything you need to know on how to stop working for someone else and start living the life of your dreams.  

That's what Karen has done herself and that's what her book 'Experience Mapping' shows you how to do. [Read more...]

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Free Pass to Online Copywriting Summit

I was so jazzed when I first heard that Karon Thackston and Chris Cobb were offering free passes to their Online Copywriting Summit coming up September 1, 2010. 

This is an awesome opportunity for everyone!

Karon has been one of only a few copywriters I follow and admire. She's written several books, conducted seminars and inspired many online business owners to write the kind of copy that pulls sales and draws attention. 

So it's exciting for me to be able to extend to everyone this free pass to her ten day online seminar.

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Finding Ebook Ideas

I love people who can come up with new ebook ideas quickly. In fact when I first started publishing my own ebooks, I would often wonder how the heck do people get these great ideas.

Later it dawned on me that folks don't simply come up with ebook ideas on their own, they got their ideas because they knew where to look.  That prompted me to find out where their hangouts were.  I found several of them but these are three of my favorites.. [Read more...]

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Building Links with Blog Comments

If you're building links by making comments on other blogs, perfect, it's absolutely one of the best ways to get backlinks to your site for free, however it's also one of the most misused strategies.   

I love reading the comments that I get on my blog, it's a highlight of my day, but it's also a pain in the "you know what" when I have to sift through comments that are made only to benefit the commenter, meaning they offer no value to the post, conversation or to my readers. [Read more...]

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