Business Tips

A few weeks ago, I was having an early afternoon virtual coffee chat with someone who I met on a networking app. I was enjoying our conversation for the first 15 minutes. Then, he mentioned the concept of Robert Kiyosaki’s Cash Flow Quadrant. At that moment, I knew where this conversation was going. Everything that … Read more

Unless you’ve been around for a while, you most likely haven’t noticed the change on how I run things around here now. As of May 2020, only people who are on my email list are allowed to be my clients. Why? Two reasons, mainly. The first reason is to get an idea of how I … Read more

Last month, I mentioned that I was working with a group of colleagues to consult a local startup skincare company. As of last week, we finally finished our project. It took a lot of time, brainpower, and going back-and-forth, but we can finally relax… For now. We just need to find a time to sit … Read more

Back in February, a friend and I attended a launch event for Motorola’s Razr smartphone. In a way, it was still a networking event except it was a little bit different for me. Most of the people at the event were in the creative industry, specifically photography and modeling. So unfortunately, I couldn’t relate to … Read more

Recently, Walmart publicly announced that they won’t be open this year’s Thanksgiving. This is the first time it’s going to happen in 30 years. Good to know that Walmart employees can finally spend the holiday with their families for a change. But I’m sharing this with you because the article I read mentioned an important … Read more

Over the years, I’ve seen a handful of social media challenges that, I can say with full confidence, are just ridiculous. To name a few that I remember from the top of my head: The Don’t Judge Me Challenge. This was where people would use makeup to make themselves look as ugly as possible. I’m … Read more

Last month, I read an article about televangelists. If this is the first time you’ve heard of this term, they’re ministers who spend a lot of their time on TV. They’re supposedly really good at motivating their audience into giving their money to televangelists. For what reasons? I may never know. But there are many … Read more

Earlier this year, I met another fellow copywriter who introduced me to a creatives network called GFTD. Usually, the members would meet every Monday evening at a bar in New York City. But since that can’t happen anymore, we have group Zoom calls where people from all over the world join in. There was one … Read more

When I started studying the art of copywriting, one of the first readings I was recommended was Gary Halbert’s Boron Letters. These were daily letters he wrote to his son while he was in prison. He mainly talked to him about health and business, specifically direct marketing. In one of the chapters, he was talking … Read more