What Kind of Email is More Valuable to You?

by Christopher D. Anderson on February 8, 2010

I usu­ally go through my email once a week and clean it out. I am signed to way too many email lists so I get a lot of email. But it got me to think­ing that I need to sort it out a lit­tle bit. Unsub­scribe to some of these emails. I get two kinds of email.

One is some­thing you see a lot of: There are email lists that send out an email, some­times once a day, that are full of offers. Both to buy and free (which you have to sign up for, go fig­ure). These are nice as it allows me access to more infor­ma­tion that I may get some value out of. The prob­lem is there are a lot of emails and that’s I all I see is more and more offers.

The other email is from mar­keters that send infor­ma­tion in their email. These are pretty meaty and usu­ally have lots of good info. Every once in a while they might send and offer for some­thing but I think that’s alright. They have to make a liv­ing too right? I find these emails much more inter­est­ing and infor­ma­tive. Not to men­tion, these are the emails I read most often.

So my ques­tion for you is which kind of emails to you find more valu­able? Emails with a lot of offers in each one, or emails with good infor­ma­tion and some offers here and there? I know which I value more, let me know which ones you find more valu­able and use­ful in the com­ments below.

~Chris

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35 Things I Have Learned From Working Online

by Christopher D. Anderson on February 3, 2010

About a year ago I started my ven­ture of work­ing online (again). I started out pretty well blind and fum­bled around for awhile.  A few months actu­ally. I hit a few walls and just about gave up. But that was then, this is now. Now I’m focused and mak­ing strides towards my own idea of suc­cess and I thought I would take a look back and see what I have learned so far.

Here are 35 things I’ve learned over the past year. Obvi­ously I’ve learned tons from read­ing all kinds of infor­ma­tion. But these are things that I’ve learned about myself and the gen­eral idea of suc­cess. These are from expe­ri­ence, not from a book or report. I hope to pass on some nuggets of wis­dom along the way.

  1. Improv­ing your­self is a key com­po­nent to mak­ing your busi­ness successful.
  2. Peo­ple don’t like to be sold to, but they do like to buy stuff.
  3. Mak­ing goals and get­ting through them is one of the most sat­is­fy­ing experiences.
  4. Work­ing online isn’t as easy as some peo­ple make it out to be. In fact it can be quite the challenge.
  5. Guru’s are humans. They even make mis­takes (gasp!). They are just extremely good at what they do.
  6. You should pro­vide value in every­thing, even if it is free.
  7. Prac­tice makes per­fect. You might screw up a few times, but the more you try the bet­ter you get.
  8. Always fol­low your passion.
  9. If you want to you can do just about any­thing you want. You just have to put your mind to it.
  10. I fig­ured out that I don’t have to work like a slave to make money online. I just have to learn how to work more efficiently.
  11. I’ve learned that pro­cras­ti­na­tion isn’t really a laugh­ing mat­ter like it used to be.
  12. Although I tend to work hard most of the time, an hour or two, or even a day, to goof off is actu­ally good for you.
  13. Find what works for you. Fig­ure out what clicks, and what coin­cides with your pas­sion. Then come up with a way to make a liv­ing from that.
  14. I have met way more help­ful peo­ple then scammers.
  15. It’s super easy to get infor­ma­tion over­load. This stuff is everywhere!
  16. Focus is key. Pick some­thing and go with it. Try­ing to do every­thing at the same time doesn’t help any.
  17. I’ve learned that even writ­ers hire other writ­ers. Design­ers hire other design­ers. And so on.
  18. I’ve learned how to orga­nize bet­ter. I’m still not that good at it, but even just a lit­tle bit has made a world of difference.
  19. Every bit of progress is good. Even if it’s some­thing small, it’s a small step towards your goals.
  20. I’ve learned that it’s okay to dream big. As long as that isn’t all you do.
  21. I fig­ured out that in the end it’s not about the money itself. It’s what you can pro­vide, both with the money and what you pro­vide to get the money.
  22. Being dif­fer­ent is def­i­nitely a good thing. First you have to find out how your different.
  23. I love my music, but I’ve fig­ured out that it’s actu­ally a bit dis­tract­ing only when I’m writ­ing. Hmm.
  24. I have learned more val­ues to pass on to my children.
  25. No mat­ter what you do, you will fall at some point. It all depends on whether you get back and keep going or not.
  26. Peo­ple aren’t always going to have faith in your endeav­ors. That is until you prove them wrong.
  27. Crit­i­cism is actu­ally highly valu­able, not an insult.
  28. I’m not very good at recruit­ing for MLM’s.
  29. Mar­ket­ing isn’t as hard as it seems once you fig­ure it out.
  30. If you screw up, learn from that mis­take and move on.
  31. Twit­ter is really strange until you try it out for your­self. I can tell you how cool it is all day long but you won’t get it until you see it in action. Weird.
  32. I’m start­ing to notice adver­tis­ing tech­niques every­where. I see why they did that and under­stand thing much better.
  33. Email sucks up tons of time if you don’t use it right. So does Twit­ter and Facebook.
  34. My idea of suc­cess is prob­a­bly dif­fer­ent than yours. Either one is still suc­cess if it’s reached.
  35. Work­ing online and peo­ple in online mar­ket­ing have a bad rap. Some of the coolest and most help­ful peo­ple are also doing very well for themselves.

That should about do it. I could prob­a­bly add more but I didn’t want to stretch it too much. By this time next year it should be inter­est­ing to see how things have changed.

~Chris

Have any­thing you would like to share or add to this list?

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Sell Your Writing Online Now Review

February 1, 2010

Back in August of ’09 I wrote a review on Angela Booth. One of her main prod­ucts I men­tioned is Sell Your Writ­ing Online Now and since I’m a lit­tle over halfway through it I thought it would be a good time to write a review on that.
Sell Your Writ­ing Online Now (SWYON for short) is […]

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4 Ways to Succeed as a Person

January 29, 2010

It seems like there is some­thing about suc­cess­ful peo­ple that a lot don’t have, or don’t real­ize they have. These are 4 rea­sons these suc­cess­ful peo­ple are suc­cess­ful. 4 ways that make suc­cess­ful peo­ple that you can apply to your every­day life and your jour­ney towards suc­cess.
You Can’t Grow if You Don’t Improve Your­self
People […]

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Rules Are Meant To Be Broken

January 27, 2010

The world wouldn’t be where it is today if peo­ple didn’t break the rules. I’m not talk­ing about break­ing rules such as steal­ing or van­dal­ism. Noth­ing ille­gal. I’m talk­ing about the peo­ple that helped soci­ety and the way peo­ple look at things evolve. These are peo­ple that tried things that weren’t entirely accepted at the time. […]

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What Are Your Superpowers?

January 25, 2010

Comic books have been around for a long time. They are an extremely pop­u­lar form of enter­tain­ment. Why is that?
A well writ­ten comic book has a lot of reflec­tions of soci­ety and life in gen­eral. These char­ac­ter may have super­pow­ers that are beyond human pos­si­bil­ity but they have human weak­ness just like we do. You can […]

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Is Your Advertsing Unique?

January 22, 2010

So I’m dri­ving down the road the other day doing my shop­ping and pick­ing up stuff we need. I see some­thing that I haven’t seen in a long time. Some­one stand­ing out in front of Lit­tle Ceaser’s Pizza with a big sign.
On the sign is an adver­tise­ment for one of their sales. This is nothing […]

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No Arms, No Legs, No Problem

January 20, 2010

There are some amaz­ing peo­ple in this world that accom­plish great things. Nick Vuji­cic was born with no arms or legs but that didn’t stop him from liv­ing a life like every­one else. Check out the video, it’s very inspi­ra­tional. If he can live a reg­u­lar life with­out arms and legs, we should all be […]

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Monkey See, Monkey Do: How Do You Learn?

January 18, 2010

As human beings we are all very diverse. And it’s the same in the way we learn things. Online mar­ket­ing is of course no dif­fer­ent and it’s in your best inter­est to fig­ure out how you learn best. There is a lot of infor­ma­tion on the world wide web. And it’s up to you to […]

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The Difference Between a Mentor and Being Self Taught

January 13, 2010

Do you have a men­tor yet in your field of busi­ness? Some­one that has been around for awhile that is doing what you are aim­ing for? Get­ting a men­tor is one of the best things you can do for you and your busi­ness. It will take you leaps and bounds towards suc­cess.
You see, there […]

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