Learning / Experience / Financial

Skyrocket: I Think This May Be When It Happens… This Should Be Interesting…

I’ve had a slight change in my brain / the way that I’ve been thinking that I think will cause a bit of a major difference in the future. It’s possibly from doing everything and trying to get it all done myself and learning everything as I go while getting it all done – to […]

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – My Takeaways

Contrast Concept One hand in hot, the other in cold water – then place both hands into room temperature water. Retail: Present higher priced items first, so when you show over-priced lower items afterward, the odds of the guest buying are increased. Real estate: Show run -down, over-priced properties (with no intent to sell them)

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Things Are Getting Quite Interesting… Positively…

Recently, with Media Moon, LLC. I tweaked a few systems and this is basically the result: The bottom line is that we’re operating way more efficiently than we have in the past. It’s not without additional costs, but it’s one of those situations that is a “2 steps backward to go 10 steps forward.” The

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Claude Hopkins – Scientific Advertising – My Notes And Takeaways

I found out about this book a few days ago and was able to track down the audio version of it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8zjzKZdUFQ The good news about Youtube is that you can speed up the playback speed to get through videos even quicker than normal. 😉 Anyway, I was putting notes together as I went

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Q&A For Quitting Your Job: How Much Money Did You Have Saved Before Quitting Your 9 – 5?

I saved for years to get to ~2-3 years of expenses. As luck would have it, just before I left my day job, I got married. Shortly after getting married, but before I left my day job, we got pregnant. Needless to say, you can’t really plan for everything to go perfectly. I would always

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Yet Another Interesting Quote… WSJ

Yet another quote pulled from the Wall Street Journal from August 27, 2014, titled “Warren Buffett’s Tax Whopper“… It’s pretty much the last line of the article: ================ (Reference to the word “Dumb“): That word also applies to America’s corporate tax code, the reigning world champion in punishing investment and discouraging job creation. ================ Hahahaha!!!

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An Interesting Quote From Pope Francis (Plus A Few Tangents – All Over The Place)

Today I was reading an article from the Wall Street Journal in the September 26th, 2014 issue (yeah, I’m a bit behind) titled “The Pope and the Divorce Question“. In there, was a quote that I thought made quite a bit of sense with today’s society. Unfortunately, it’s a bit sad, but I think it’s true. It’s just below:

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