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 positive...
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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?
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 something new. Once the delay is over, I now have two...
Make your message compelling: Podcamp 3 talk handouts
Thank you to everyone who came to my Podcamp 3 presentation on how to make your message compelling! Here is the handout from the presentation. Enjoy! Link: make-your-message-compelling-handouts-v1
Does email overload help us? You need to understand the costs and benefits.
Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can handle it just...
What’s a good name for an e-mail overload product?
Update 8/8/08: Name chosen! The product now exists! You are Not Your Inbox, available at http://www.YouAreNotYourInbox.com ! I'm in the final stages of developing a product that helps people combat e-mail overload. Could you help me choose a title? The subtitle will...
What’s your impression of long-form sales letters?
This link arrived in a solicitation. I've read books about these "long-form sales letters" and was wondering what people think of them? The link is www.membershipsitebootcamp.com. create a free poll on pollsb.com
Can you help me design a product w/ a 1-minute survey?
I'm expanding my business to include more personal productivity products. One I'm considering is a product on dealing with e-mail overload. Could you help me understand a bit about the market for such a product? Please fill out this brief survey. It will take less...
Stever’s not posting until June 25th
I'm going off grid until June 25th. See y'all then!
Is the Net deeply changing the way you think?
I just read this article in the Atlantic about how the Net has changed the way the article's author thinks. He's wondering what the larger, societal effects will be. Being The Atlantic, he's also savvy enough to realize there may be unintended good consequences that...