Monthly Archives: August 2008

Why no purchasers from YouAreNotYourInbox.com?

I’m stumped. We’ve had 500 visitors to YouAreNotYourInbox.com, from a variety of sources, and under 1% purchase from people who find the product via that page. This is what we call a “learning opportunity.” If you have visited and decided … Continue reading

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Do "broad stroke" and highly-specific tips go together?

I’m collecting the final list of tips for the book. I’m noticing there are two categories of tips and am not sure they would work together in a book. Here are samples: Broad-stroke Narrow Use networking for your job search … Continue reading

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Giving feedback: is the "sandwich" valuable, or trite and ineffective?

Conventional wisdom has it that you should sandwich negative feedback between two pieces of positive feedback. You can read about “the hamburger method” here. Shelle Rose Charvet points out that most people already know the method. Now, when they hear … Continue reading

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Any ideas on how to market my email overload product?

My new product, “You Are Not Your Inbox: Overcoming Email Overload” is ready! The question now is … how do I market it? Can you chime in with ideas and insights? Continue reading

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What do you drop and what do you keep?

I’m overloaded! Yes, it happens to me, too The problem happens when I take on a new project, here’s a delay in the project (e.g. I’m waiting for someone to get me a document), and during that delay, I start … Continue reading

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