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Re: NEW 30-Day Challenge! – Building an Authority Site from Scratch

drmani — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:39:00 -0000

Sounds like fun, Kim. Count me in :)

Re: True Life: Working with Seth Godin, Crying at Work, and “PTFA”

drmani — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:15:47 -0000

"No matter where you are in life, take action on the most pressing
opportunity in your immediate vicinity. Even if it’s not “perfect,” it
will teach you far more than what you envision as being “perfect.”

^^^ This = AWESOME!

Re: Why MANY smart people are not social?

drmani — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:18:16 -0000

Great points, Raj.

#3 resonates especially strongly with me lately.

As does the realization that *IF* I were really 'smart', then it shouldn't have taken this long for it to ;-)

Re: 24 Things I’ve Never Told You

drmani — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:33:35 -0000

#6 is something that speaks to me - because I answer my own email (or at least the bit of it that does get answered :lol:) Loved reading this about you, Kim. Will think about doing one like this for my blog - if I can find 24 things I've not beaten my readers over the head with over these past years :-)

Re: What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing

drmani — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:56:22 -0000

The 2nd part was an after-thought - and it shows. :embarrassed grin: I included it before sending it out to my email list, and the disparity shows.

I've edited it and uploaded a more 'finished' version, sans (much) self-promo - because the message is what matters more. Would love for it to be a kind of rallying cry for the need for good curation.

Thanks for all you've taught, Robin. You're probably the single person I've learned the most about curation from - and seen it in practice right on your site! :)

Re: What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing

drmani — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:30:53 -0000

Amazing post, great points, I'll use them as a checklist for my content curation. I'm focusing on only 2 niche topics, both of which I've been involved in for over 10 years and believe have expertise to bring value to the table.

Having studied your material on Newsmastering for almost 6 years now, I'm pretty confident of what I'm doing - and even announced it to my list recently through a provocatively titled report, "The Death of Google"... it's here, in case you'd like to take a look - http://bit.ly/deathofg

Re: The bar to be joyful

drmani — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:09:03 -0000

I set out to look for ways to laugh at least at 10 things in my day. Surprise, surprise... it set my "bar to be joyful" lower. Much lower. There are times when my little daughter will raise her eyebrows at me for laughing so hard at something even she thinks only trivially amusing! (Just the thought of THAT made me laugh just now!) :lol:

Re: Caption This: The Unhappiest Person At The Royal Wedding [PHOTO]

drmani — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:51:18 -0000

Hear no evil!

Re: Ben Settle’s Weird Copywriting Tips – Part 3

drmani — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:39:38 -0000

LOVE this, Ben. Especially the idea of creating the product after writing the ad - and taking out the bits you can't live up to the promise of!

Re: Ben Settle’s Weird Copywriting Tips – Part 2

drmani — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:36:45 -0000

Ben's newsletter has become one of my favorites, and I read every daily issue (even look forward to it!). Surely any budding email marketer can learn from his style and experience. Nice interview series you've done here, Ryan - thanks!

Re: My Own Personal Happiness Project

drmani — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:17:56 -0000

You asked "how you can intentionally do something for your own personal happiness today". Well, I spent half an hour playing with little Muffin! http://on.fb.me/muffinalbum

Re: Using Death as a Motivator

drmani — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:02:42 -0000

Touched. Deeply. Thanks for sharing this, Justin.

Re: The Future of jvAlert and Dunbar’s Number

drmani — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:33:19 -0000

Mark

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"On a final note - I think we all need to remember that an affiliate relationship is "promote and get results - and we'll pay you." Very different thing from 'mail for me and I'll mail for you.'"
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I like that. A lot. Takes any kind of "reciprocation pressure" off the person who is ASKING for help with promoting anything.

Dr.Mani

Re: The Future of jvAlert and Dunbar’s Number

drmani — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:17:45 -0000

Fascinating. Will email you, Ken :-)

Re: Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 7: Business Applications And Trends

drmani — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:26:59 -0000

Robin, thank you. It sounds a pretty inadequate word, but I mean it deeply :-)

For almost 3 hours, I've read your series on content curation and explored some delightful links off the articles - and learned a lot, had my imagination fired, and got some ideas to start trying out.

What a long way we've come since those early days of 'newsmastering' (which I learned about from you in 2004) - and the resources listed in the original 'Newsmasters Toolkit' seem puny in contrast to what's available today!

Off to try my hand at some content curating - and hope to share some experiences with you soon :-)

All success
Dr.Mani

Re: My Plans for 2011…

drmani — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:42:19 -0000

Fabulous plan, Kim. I was curious to see what you're up to when I noticed a link to your blog on IM News Watch. In my blog post with the same title, I mentioned how I'm scaling DOWN relying upon email marketing - and see you're planning to do more of it. That's the bit I love about online marketing... the diversity and ability to customize to what's working for YOU. And like many others, I'm super-impressed at how you've put together such amazing JV deals by creating superb products for partners to promote. Will definitely consider letting my list know about them, too, soon :-)

Re: Blogging Tools For 2011

drmani — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:12:23 -0000

Thanks, Chris, I just installed WP Touch and the editorial calendar plug-ins to MoneyPowerWisdom.com - and have spent a while researching content ideas for the year's blogging. I'd like to suggest Odiogo as another plug-in that extends the reach of one's blog by automatically turning it into an audio podcast.

Re: 5 Books that Taught Me To Look at Everything Differently

drmani — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:14:07 -0000

Love your suggestions, will make time in 2011 to study them all.

For myself, "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle shifted many paradigms and showed me the power of living in (and deeply appreciating) the present moment.

And recently, Seth Godin's "Linchpin" did something amazing - by explaining "gift" in such a manner that showed me what really mattered... and made me realize I'm already doing them! (I blogged about it on Money.Power.Wisdom in a post titled "Epiphany")

All success
Dr.Mani

Re: How to Commit Social Media Suicide

drmani — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:15:32 -0000

Nice. In the early days when I dabbled in Twitter and Facebook 2 and half years ago, I wrote this:

"Don't Waste Time on Social Networking"
http://iheartz.com/moneypow...

All success
Dr.Mani

Re: An Open Letter to All JV Partners

drmani — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:13:05 -0000

Nice, Mike. I started something similar around 5 years back, but it didn't gain enough traction.

"Acceptable Affiliate Practices" is now archived on my blog here:
http://www.ezinemarketingce...

Let's hope your initiative does better :-)

All success
Dr.Mani

Re: A test copywriters had to take in the 1940s

drmani — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:51:34 -0000

Loved it! I could answer 2 of those questions, and (almost) did another two (Alfred's cakes, and Don Quixote's horse - Sancho's name kept popping into my head, tho'!)

Re: Twitter Mouseover Security Flaw Affecting Thousands of Users [WARNING]

drmani — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:26:25 -0000

Twitter are probably busy FIXING it! :-)

Re: How Much Money The “Gurus” Make… And How They Do It

drmani — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:18:57 -0000

Wow!

Nice.

Maybe we'll put out the welcome mat to greet you when you next step into the "Club of Plain Speakers" :lol:

Re: Who Your Real Friends Are … Would YOU do this?

drmani — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:03:05 -0000

Ken, I signed up to Tobri (BETA), and am telling my friends about it.

Your 'empty theater' story reminded me of one told by Dr.Greg Mortenson in "Three Cups of Tea" - which ended with him delivering a lecture to THREE people in a room meant for 300... but one of them made a donation of $10,000. It's never about how MANY, but about WHO.

Now, some quick feedback about Tobri.com BETA...

1. Captcha code has some problem. I had to try 3 times before I could 'crack' it!

2. Profile page - Country... why only 5 by default, and others have to type in? I found it mildly insulting, personally. Maybe others would, too.

3. Too much email in the beginning. This is a minor issue, but may overwhelm some. I've got FOUR messages just for signing up!

4. Not intuitively easy how to find new connections. Most similar sites have a 'Members' tab which gives suggestions. Can't find one here except the graphic link widget under "Connections" which only tells me who's already linked to me.

Hope this helps, Ken.

All success
Dr.Mani

Re: The Influence Project Hijackers Surrender

drmani — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:06:05 -0000

He who tries to please all, pleases none.

I don't see what you did as a "failure". At all.

It was a nice attempt. It was never going to appeal to everyone. It did, to a certain kind of person.

Your tribe, Nate, is made of those people. NOT others. Seth Godin keeps saying a tribe NEEDS 'outsiders'. Stop trying to rope them ALL in - coz then, you don't have a tribe at all!

My perception, of course, is conditioned by my participation in your 'Love Bombs' and seeing the impact 'little acts of kindness' can have on people desperately in need of some love and attention.

Others, without the benefit of this experience, are more cynical. No surprise there.

It's my personal opinion that if you'd gone ahead with the plan, and accomplished the result you were after, many in that group would have seen things differently - but I also have a fair idea why you decided that backing down was a better choice.

In the end, we try things, we get some right, we learn some lessons, we do better next time.

I'll leave you with Mahatma Gandhi's quote:

"First, they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win."