The Writing on the Wall Episode 84: Golf Anyone? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am

My Newest Book Due Out Next Month 26 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm

Bentley Catches His First Frisbee 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm

Our house sitters have created the first frisbee-catching dog in the family. Bentley is almost 11 months old.

Alan’s Monday Morning Memo – 8/26/13 26 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm

August 26, 2013—Issue #205 This week’s focus point: I see my role in any newsletter as provoking, not trying to be liked or gain consensus or make a nest in the mainstream. In that vein, let me sugge...

Get A Life (But Not Mine) 26 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am

My feeling about people arguing over half-empty and half-full glasses is that I’ll take the glass while they’re debating and fill it myself. Too many people are griping, complaining, and agonizing, ge...

Measured Steps 25 Aug 2013 | 04:13 pm

An exception isn’t a rule. A single occurrence is an accident, a second is a coincidence, a third is a pattern. A pattern isn’t an exception.

Untold Wealth Originating in Nigeria 24 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm

Well, I own’t be returning here because I’m obviously coming into a lot of money. This looks official, right? Dr.Benneth Opara Director Foreign Operations, Central Bank Of Nigeria. Abuja-Nigeria. ...

The Only Marketing Plan You’ll Ever Need 24 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm

Consultants don’t need business plans (the danger being that you hit it, and it’s always too modest). They need marketing plans. This is the marketing business. Here’s the only one you’ll ever need, s...

Dumb Ass Stupid Marketing 24 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm

No matter what filters or armed guards I use, I get a handful of these emails a week. Does anyone, anywhere, respond to an ungrammatical, unsolicited, mass, junk email and decide to do business with t...

Nantucket 23 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm

This is such a wonderful place, morning, noon, and night. Moonrise Figs, Todd English's new restaurant in a 300-year-old house. Slanting floors, crooked tables, and glorious food. A road far less ...