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Many have been asking to see sample Need a Topic emails. This is a service where I send topics, tips, and techniques on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for only $7.

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It’s Not About the Plan

Maroon BellsA few years ago, before moving to Colorado, I got back into a sport I had missed for many years. Mountaineering is an activity that gets me solitude, even while being surrounded by a handful of other people.

The people I play in the mountains with aren’t just like family, they are family. We rely on each other to stay alive in some of the most extreme environments in the world.

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213 Coach Radio – How to Consistently Create Good Content

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Show Topics:

  • Leaving a non-profit to start a for-profit
  • Sharing pictures without tasteless advertising on twitter
  • The best podcast mixer
  • How to create consistently good content

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Sam: I work at a non profit and do web design and consulting on the side. Its taking a huge toll on me and my family while I put in 14 hour days and still not able to get everything done. Even though the real work Im supposed to be doing at the nonprofit is my passion, I’m considering calling it quits and doing the same kind of work on my own as a profitable social enterprise. Any advice?

Also, is it realistic to think that one can manage a small sized (40 person) company 100% via email? I’m thinking this would not be a best practice for a CEO considering having to interact with so many people, would it?

I appreciate your thoughts and as always thank you for all the great work you do. I listen to your shows during commutes and I love your book.

P.S. you’ve inspired me to start podcasting .. my next questions will come through via new audio equipment I get next week.

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We’re Going Viral

This is a funny video that’s actually safe for work. We’ve been having fun with some of these phrases around the office lately. Enjoy.

Stop Hitting Red Lights: Finding Green

Without disrespect to other professors, the thing I love most about the Free Agent Academy is the idea filter. Here’s a real copy, with options A, B, and C changed.

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Jonathan Pool leads the Idea group within FAA and is downright amazing. Here’s how it works.

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Sample Blog Tips Email

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Many have been asking to see sample Need a Topic emails. This is a service where I send topics, tips, and techniques on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for only $7.

Here’s a sample Blog Tips email. I’ve shared a blog topics email and I’ll share a techniques email as well. Check out Need a Topic for free for the first seven days.

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How Not to Get Fired!

get firedWhile Self magazine had good intentions, I want to approach this headline a bit differently. The premise of their article is what to do if you screw up. I want to talk about intentionally doing things that could get you screwed.

It doesn’t matter if you’re working for yourself or someone else; if you’re the janitor or the CEO. You should be pushing the envelope and doing scary things. This isn’t Office Space where you work just hard enough not to get fired. If you’re doing that, you’re not alive. You’re not being who you are, and you’re letting a lot of people down.

I interviewed CEO Ryan Blair a while back and asked him if he ever pushed the envelope enough to worry about being fired by his board. He told me his directors actually had a plan to let him go at one point until he talked them out of it. That’s the difference between you and a guy who took a company from $600,000 per month to $10,000,000 per month in just two years.

Are you pushing things enough to worry about getting fired? Or are you just working hard enough to avoid getting fired?

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212 Coach Radio – Make Money From Your Blog

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  • Make money from your blog
  • Better to start a newsletter or a podcast
  • Creating fictional characters for a podcast network
  • Multiple twitter IDs for projects or one for everything

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Jason: I was asking about affiliate income from blog or podcast. From what I’m learning, a blog in and of itself is not normally a huge income producer. Usually, you need to have a product or service to drive income from the blog it seems. So, thinking this through, if I wanted a blog / podcast on Entrepreneurship for children, I really need to have a DVD / curriculum or something to sell.  Or have an affiliate connection where I’m getting 50% of the price of an e-book and getting huge amounts of traffic.

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