Month: February 2008

  • New Package: Comes with FREE one-on-one consulting

    As last year was winding down and still early on into this year, we’ve received a lot of e-mails like this: “Craig, I am going to order your products this year, but I don’t know which ones to invest in.” Or… “Craig, I want everything in your arsenal — what do you suggest?” So, like…

  • New business idea: If you can’t beat ‘em, rip ‘em a new one.

    It always amazes me how the most profound and unconventional ideas, are often just simple ideas reversed. So for instance, a very common career path for people to enter is to take the skills they have — perhaps they were working for someone else, let’s say — and then to do the thing they are…

  • The Superbowl lesson everyone missed

    I suppose I should be discussing the ads from the Super Bowl on Sunday, and I will, briefly, but I’d rather discuss the hero of the game, and his close parallel to oftentimes, good marketing. As usual, many of the ads were entertaining, most were crap, and few — if any, would give anyone any…

  • Behind the scenes profile now posted.

    A while ago I was interviewed by an online Sales and Success newsletter. I didn’t realize that they information the asked was so personal, but in reading it, I sure spilled the beans about lots of stuff. The interview has been posted now, so if you want to check it out, and discover some more…

  • HUGE: Edgy semi-nude video blows the doors wide open on bad ads!

    This is HUGE! Probably THE very best example of what advertising should be. I know nothing about the company that created this video but it is a stroke of genius! (No pun on the word “stroke” — you’ll see what I mean in a moment.). Here, have a look at this: See, the biggest problem…