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You are not anyone’s only option. (…So now what?)
We made out for hours that night. College kids stepped clumsily around us, spilling their beer as much as their morals. It was an era of chunky blonde highlights and boot cut jeans, tanning beds and...
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Just The Tip: Hourly or Retainer OR….
» Cash flow challenged? » Do a bunch of work you won’t get paid for until you bill next month? » Burned in the past by clients who disappear & never actually pay the bill? No, this is...
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Adultery Saturdays: 25 New Words You Didn’t Know You’ve Been Missing–Until NOW
As of late, I’ve been borderline inappropriately obsessed with making portmanteaus, a super fancy term that basically means cramming two words together to create an entirely new combo word and...
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Just The Tip: Why Screaming Won’t Get You Heard.
So you know when you’re in a group of people, and you start telling a story, and that one jerkoff starts talking over you, hollering at the waitress mid-sentence, or answering the phone, or by turning...
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The 30 Easiest Ways To Make Everyone Hate Your Guts, Egg Your Car, Or Punch...
The 30 Easiest Ways To Make Everyone Hate Your Guts, Egg Your Car, Or Punch You In That Same Place On Your Arm Over And Over Until It Really, REALLY Hurts 1. When a coworker approaches and offers...
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Just The Tip: Nobody Wants Your Free Goodies
Alright, it’s time we had a talk about your goodies. I’ve seen free goodies being offered all over the internet for year after (painful) year, and I really have to wonder: Are they honestly as good...
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Adultery Saturdays: The Only Cards You’ll Ever Need For Valentine’s Day
If you’re anything like me, you’re probably sweating bullets about Valentine’s Day. (Hopefully they’re metaphorical bullets. Pro Tip: If metal is coming out of your face, you should probably see a...
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STOP Giving Away Free Consults. I Beg You.
“Nobody ever paid top dollar for a cheap imitation. Don’t let somebody else’s business move dictate yours.” I wrote that in our TMF Facebook page yesterday. Here’s why: Keep in mind that the people...
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Just The Tip: Don’t Invent a Product Name. Engineer One.
It’s 4:30 in the morning and I’m boarding a plane to Nicaragua. Today’s tip should really be: Don’t board a plane before you having at least one successful hour being awake. It’s bad enough trying to...
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Adultery Saturdays: What Lingerie Will Help You Learn About Life
Hypothetically, say this last Tuesday found you wearing roughly 70 bajillion layers, sitting in front of the panda habitat at the Denver Zoo, and alternating between licking a softserve icecream...
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Are You Peeing In The Sea of Sameness?
I was disgusted. She was the 11th person to pass by trying to peddle the same exact selection of sunglasses that ten other people had peddled just seconds before. “Senorita?” she said, tapping me on...
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Just The Tip: Make Technology Your Bitch. Not the Other Way Around.
So we should probably talk about the fact that anything with a <div> in it is automatically on my shitlist. I’m not entirely sure why everything online still requires you to have a PhD in HTML,...
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The 75 (Curious) Steps Of Writing A Blog Post
1. Pull out a sheet of notebook paper to brainstorm ideas, thinking you’ve read a bunch of shit about how the visceral connection of putting pen to paper can do wonders for writer’s block. 2. Turn on...
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Are You (Accidentally) Using Words That Are Triggering People to STOP LISTENING?
“Someday, I’m going to drop dead, and you’re not going to know how to cook squat.” She said it at least once a week. Maybe more. I’d always snubbed my nose at the kitchen; at the trout heads and...
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Just The Tip: Get Yourself Some Enemies
Elementary school ruined everything. They tattooed horrible cliches onto our 8 year old hearts to “think big!” — ”aim high!” — ”walk with your head down in single file OR DIE” — — which probably...
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Annoying Things My Boss Says
Because after working for my boss Ash, the founder of this website, (duh), for almost an entire motherloving year? I’ve got all sorts of beans to spill. (And then cook. And then make into a burrito...
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Just The Tip: Are You Selling The Wrong Thing?
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been guilty of making a list of “what’s included” that looks like this: Modules! PDFs! Videos! Audios of the Videos! Transcripts of the Audios of the Videos!...
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Do Your Customers Want to You to Shut Up—Or Keep Talking?
Last week we talked about how cliché, overused, threadbare language triggers people to stop listening to you. Bottom line: If your customer’s brain thinks it can predict what you’re about to say,...
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I Brought 20 Hookers to Central America on Business.
I sloshed on yet another layer of gloss, steering frantically with one hand while trying not to rear end a truck full of cows. I mean, what would I tell the Life Hooky group? “We didn’t pick you up at...
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Adultery Saturdays: You’re Definitely Not Ready For This Jelly, OR For Big...
When Ash and I first booked my plane tickets to Costa Rica six months ago, I was ecstatic, (obviously.) I had very clear visions of deliciously tan cabana boys, bottles of Bacardi, streaming...
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