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What is marketing? Is it a process of gathering as much money as you can, throwing it to the “creative” winds, and hoping something will come back? Is it a practice of interrupting as many people as possible with a message they don’t care about, and never asked to receive? Is it a performance you…

Google’s been pissing people off lately. Panda, Penguin, Parakeet (okay, I made that last one up), who knows what’s next … Then there are the social networking evangelists whose entire fortunes are deep in Zuckerberg’s asset. And finally, the faithful content producers, who labor slowly and quietly to build their businesses one thousand words at…

Where do great business ideas come from? What about products — how can you know (or at least make a highly educated guess about) whether your idea will actually fly in the market? In his must-read book Breakthrough Advertising, master copywriter Eugene Schwartz wrote: “This is the copywriter’s task: not to create mass desire —…

Chris Brogan is everywhere. From the outside, it seems that in just a few short years, he’s created an independent publishing and speaking empire with nothing more than his personality and a laptop. The truth of his story is a lot more compelling. He spent 10 years writing into the void. He flew to conferences…

Think having a huge Twitter following is enough to drive your marketing? Is big media attention (social or otherwise) enough to drive the sales you need and want? Those certainly help, but the future of a successful marketing campaign lies — in part — in becoming a “Youtility,” finding creative ways to to be unforgettably…

John Carlton is a professional copywriter who charges $2,500.00 for his one-on-one consulting calls. In this 30+ minute interview, he decided to lay out some of his best advice for carving out a career in the writing trade. And he decided to give it up at no charge. Part 1 of this interview went over…