Funny

My Tapeworm Diet Ad Joke Turned Out To Be Real…

Monday, July 21st, 2008

For a silly example of how to use my Free Sales Letter Generator software, I wrote a joke ad about a tapework weight loss diet, but the joke’s on me… turns out, it’s a real diet!  Here’s an actual 1920’s ad for it.
Blech.
Well, disgusting or not, the free sales letter generator can help you quickly [...]

Apparently A Bunch Of People Caught Me Naked…

Friday, April 25th, 2008

…because I’m getting hammered with emails with the Subject Line:
We caught you naked tim
After all, why would they lie, right?
Oh wait, I know… Because they’re SPAMMERS.
If I didn’t have measures in place to automatically catch and delete 98% of the spam I get, I’d be a sad puppy… and I’d get less done.  If you [...]

Just Because Information Is Valuable Doesn’t Mean You Should Sell It

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

There was a little dust-up this week on marketing forums after an established info-marketer offered to give the URL to a free website… for a price.
In all fairness, included in his offer were video tutorials of him showing how to use the resources on the free website to maximize its potential, and the “how” is [...]

Vanna White Is Indispensable

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I saw Wheel Of Fortune last night… Remember when Vanna White used to actually have to flip over each mechanical box to reveal the letter on the other side?
Those days are long gone. Now she walks over and touches a corner of the boxes that have already lit up (meaning she doesn’t even have [...]

Selling Wadded Up Paper For $10 Apiece

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Sometimes it seems like all the good ideas are taken…
Especially if your idea is to sell crumpled up pieces of paper for $10 apiece.
If you’ve:

never really believed that it’s the story that sells a product, not the product itself…
never really believed that art is in the eye of the beholder…
never really believed that a lot [...]

George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Words - Keep The Sound Down!

Friday, January 11th, 2008

A looooong time ago way before the Internet had gone multimedia, I was up late browsing websites, and one was taking a long time to load. The speakers on my computer were up LOUD, and all of a sudden an audio of George Carlin rapid-firing his “seven dirty words” blared through my computer [...]