Daily Journal

  • I Was Taught to Hate Money

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    By the Ocean Clear 76 Degrees 5:46 a.m. I was taught to hate money. But I also found that I really enjoyed getting money. Put those two ideas into a kid, without any direction or guidance to help him resolve the conflict, and weird stuff will happen. I grew up in the vibration of lack.…

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  • Writing With Power

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    By the Ocean Sunny 78 Degrees 8:15 a.m. When it comes to the metric I refer to as “transformation per dollar,” the most valuable thing I’ve ever made for the world is this, a simple four-part workshop about writing. I created it with a single purpose: to free the writing power of business owners from…

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  • How to Succeed and Fail at the Same Time

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    By the Ocean Sunny 75 Degrees 5:56 a.m. When I started my copywriting business, I thought that hunting clients was the thing to do. I sent out simple letters, a few hundred every month, in hand addressed envelopes, delivering a message about how great I was. This was a dumb thing to do. But it…

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  • Following Your Path to Success

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    By the Ocean A Few Clouds 75 Degrees 6:03 a.m. There’s a big difference between how everyone else succeeds and how you’re supposed to succeed. The Matrix doesn’t tell you this. It would rather have you think that there’s ONE way to do it right, just like in school. If you believe that, you can…

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  • How to Sell Yourself

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    By the Ocean Sunny 76 Degrees 7:55 a.m. If you work with clients, learning how to sell yourself is the most valuable skill you can develop. Without this skill, you will quickly become a commodity, experience downward pressure on your fees, and watch as the best and most profitable clients go to someone else. The…

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  • Pricing the Invisible

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    By the Ocean Sunny 74 Degrees 6:49 a.m. As the A.I. Cancer continues to spread throughout the land, certain assets in the business world are rapidly appreciating in value. Trust is one of them. My kids make fun of Mr. Chat GPT now because they’ve already proven to themselves that it has no idea what…

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  • The Center of Your Universe

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    By the Ocean Sunny 76 Degrees 7:13 a.m. What if you’re just not here to do it like anyone else? If that’s the case, then paying attention to what everyone else is doing is not only a waste of your time, but an activity that could easily lead you in a very wrong direction. (Ask…

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  • Feeling Awesome

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    By the Ocean Partly Cloudy 77 Degrees 5:44 a.m. One of the lasting afflictions I have from spending so much of my early life in the world of professional classical music is that I developed a habit of never feeling like I was quite good enough. When you’re trained to bristle at even the slightest…

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  • Seeing Value

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    By the Ocean Sunny 77 Degrees 6:46 a.m. Marketing is about learning to see. I didn’t know this when I got started. I discovered it after getting beaten by another copywriter who already understood this secret. We both wrote promos for the same goal setting course. I sold the course like it was a set…

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  • Reimagining What You Do For Money

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    By the Ocean Sunny 80 Degrees 9:13 a.m. If you need a one-off salesletter written to promote your product or service, I’m not your guy. That’s a low probability of success kind of venture if all you get to influence is salescopy. I don’t want to do what is required to make something like that…

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