I'll take care of it – @thisissethsblog
This is so true. Seth Godin points at a valuable and necessarily discreet skill: “”I’ll take care of it,” and I’ll do it well, at least as well as you can, for a price that won’t make you feel stupid. “I’ll take care of it,” and I won’t come back to you when things go […]
I’ll take care of it – @thisissethsblog
This is so true. Seth Godin points at a valuable and necessarily discreet skill: “”I’ll take care of it,” and I’ll do it well, at least as well as you can, for a price that won’t make you feel stupid. “I’ll take care of it,” and I won’t come back to you when things go […]
How to write a book when you’re paid by the page – Nicholas Carr
Sage advice from Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, amongst other books: “I thought I might be able to start publishing long books of computer-generated gibberish and then use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to pay Third World readers to scroll through the pages at a pace that would register each page as having been read. If I […]
Create compelling customer case studies
Marketing case studies, done well, can be persuasive pieces of marketing content. They are, effectively, just brief stories. Readers, especially prospective customers at the top-of-funnel to middle-of-funnel stages read about a situation similar to theirs’ and they relate to it. They can imagine what the product in question could do to help them address their […]
Weekend checklist, idyllic – @HardenKurt
Cultural Offering offers a checklist for a perfect weekend… Go outside Smell charcoal burning. Read. Books. Magazines. Long articles. Short stories. Stare at nature. … Sounds idyllic. Read the rest, here.
The journey of journalling – @patrickrhone
Here’s a comforting and inspiring thought from Patrick Rhone’s analogue writing blog, The Cramped: “even one of literature’s great writers and thinkers struggled to keep a journal, questioned the entire idea of it, did so only in fits and starts, but kept at it all the same.” The rest, here.