How To Get Information Marketing RIGHT!

When you make mistakes, apologize

It could be worth a small fortune to you!

The mea culpa must have worked.

According to The Washington Post: "The associate is still gainfully employed — making $2,400 a week, which figures to be $140,000 a year [sic]."

This story is about a summer intern at prestigious law firm who sent an embarrassing message to co-workers.

Did Monica Lewinsky really say they "left a bad taste in her mouth"

Did Monica Lewinsky really say the Democrats "left a bad taste in her mouth"

This is not the first time ex-Presidential mistress Monica Lewinsky has had an apocryphal (fellative) quote attributed to her. In 2000, the rumor of the moment was a comment she'd supposedly made during a CNN interview with Larry King about her becoming a Jenny Craig spokesperson: "I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me."

Barbara Mikkelson of the remarkable Urban Legends Reference Pages comments: "too bad others haven't learned not to put words into hers"

This wonderful site has the insider scoop on most urban legends - for instance:

'Did Johnson and Johnson really promote "personally tested" rectal thermometers?'

Before you check your temperature, check out this site.

Motivational Posters - Mani's Fantastic Memes

What's special about an 'About Me' page?

See this - you'll understand...

http://www.pithlog.com/about/

Help An Adorable 7-Year Old Little Girl Make It Home Safely...

Help An Adorable 7-Year Old Little Girl Make It Home Safely...

And I'll Reward You Generously For Your Kindness!

Click Here!

My friend, Bryan Kumar, is truly remarkable.

This well-known marketer has taken it upon himself to raise funds to cover the treatment costs of little Melissa. Get details at
http://www.about-secrets.com/melissa/

To support his initiative, I'm donating 100% of the profits from the next FIFTY sales of my ebook, "The Emotion Prism - How to be Happy, When you'd rather be Sad" - http://www.EmotionPrism.com

If you'd like to order a copy and contribute to Melissa's fund, please make your payment via PayPal - this will help avoid any delays in getting the money across to Byran (and it's easier for me to do from here in India). Send your payment of $29.97 to info@ezinemarketingcenter.com

Purple prose... a.k.a. word peeves

In Sausages and Apple Sauce: A Winning Combo, Sarah Lane asks:

"Do you have word peeves? I do. Here are my top 5:

1. All usage of the word "ain't"
2. When "anyway" is made plural to "anyways"
3. The pronunciation of "Illinois" with a not-silent S
4. The phrase "Alls I know is..."
5. Catsup

My reply...

"Well, I ain't got no strong feelin's bout catsup. Alls I nose bout it is in Illionoise, we ain't don't use it. Anyways, that's neither here no' they-ah.

What matters is dat you...

Be Different - http://www.b--Different.com

:-)

Dr.Mani
-- see my 'remarkably purple spots...'

What are YOUR word peeves? Tell us.

First paper balls, now hacker verse...

If you liked Origami Boulder, you'll appreciate Ray Yeargin's purple poetry.

Hacker Haiku from Librenix.

Thanks to Sarah Lane for this snippet.

I'm relieved now...

Yesterday's photo had me worried.

Hey, this is the guy who controls the world. Or thinks he does. At least, he it's what he tells us. I know two people who disagree - one's middle name rhymes with 'sin' and the other's initials are S and H.

What brought me relief was this insightful analysis of the man's personality. It can't be wrong coz it's from his own mouth - oops, I mean "hand" !

Celebrity Scrawls - Analyzed - by no less than a University professor.

This letter says it all - if you read between the lines. And around them.

Isn't it fascinating what you could be revealing about yourself by signing a check after dinner!

Credits -- Sharpeworld through Sarah Lane's Blog Report who says it "rocks for everything strange, bizarre, and can't-believe-it cool."

Sounds purple to me, alright!

What do YOU think? Talkback - post a comment.

I just listed my blog for trading!

No, not on the stock exchange.

On the BLOG exchange.

At Blog Shares

The opening bell's just sounded. Go on and load up - this stock's on the move.

SKYWARDS!

Be different - be PURPLE...

By all means, be different - but like THIS?

LIFE - remarkable?!

Every day, at work, I see kids who never had something we take for granted - a normal healthy life.

I see parents burdened by the constant anguish of not being sure they'll see their child tomorrow morning.

Yet barely a handful of us is THANKFUL for what we've got.

Now, THAT is remarkable!

Wake up every morning feeling happy about what you have.

Being ALIVE - Isn't that remarkable?!

I got it - by email.

Remember, I told you I placed an order at Origami Boulder. Well, today I received my confirmation email.

And it's hilarious - not unexpectedly so.

Here's what I got...

Artist take fresh sheet of paper and make origami boulder with speed,
violence and artistic fury. Artist attempt to throw boulder into
wastebasket from across room but overshoot and hit wall instead.
Afterward, artist take nine steps across room, pick up boulder and throw
into wastebasket with much force, successful this time.

You are good person and true patron of arts. Thanks for purchase. Hope you
enjoy description of performance.

Don't miss the "Letters from dumb-dumbs" - they're incredibe...

The "nothing" auction - sales copy...

Thought you might want to see the actual text of the sales copy from this wonderfully purple auction.

A copy of the eBay page is here.

In case it is down, or has changed, see a copy I made for my own use... click here

Or just read the text right away:

nothing for sale

I am legitimately trying to sell nothing.

It is hard to describe nothing but I can tell you that it is nothing like anything
you have ever seen. There is no photo available because I do not know how to
take a picture of nothing.

Some sellers have tried to trick buyers into buying nothing. This is not my goal.
I am really trying to sell nothing. My friends tell me that people will buy
anything on eBay. Now I want to see if I it is possible to sell nothing. I also
want to find out how much nothing is worth to someone? I want to find out the
price of nothing.

If you want to be the first person to buy nothing from me, bid on this item. Bid
as high or as low as you want to (there is no reserve price). I may or may not try
to sell nothing again; it depends on how well this auction goes. But if you want
to be the first one to buy nothing from me, then go ahead and bid on this item.

Note: If you bid on this item, you are bidding on nothing. If you end up with the winning bid,
you will get nothing. I will ship nothing to you. There are no shipping costs
associated with this item because it costs nothing to ship nothing.

Go figure

And this guy is selling NOTHING - on eBay!

Yes, he's run a wildly popular auction on ebay - and guess what he's selling ?

Right. NOTHING.

That's his product and he's described it well enough.

Remarkable?

The numbers speak for themselves...

• 15,146 hits at last count
• $14.50 winning bid
• many tried to outbid their own bids

See this item in eBay's new look for this page.

Now if only I could think up a way to do something like this. Sell air or oxygen, maybe.

Think about it - no delivery hassles.

Place your bids, and if you win, you collect INSTANTLY. Open the door (or just the window, if you prefer it), and BREATHE

I'm off to eBay before you scoop me!

It's *MY* heart, mate!

A real life tale that's purple enough to talk about here.

Twelve-year-old Shane Bowman plays with his old heart in Edmonton, Canada on Friday, July 11, 2003.

Bowman had a heart transplant and got a chance to see his old heart to have some closure on his illness.

Bowman had dialated cardiomyopathy, a condition caused by a virus, and his heart was enlarged to about 555 grams. A normal heart is about 200 grams.

Strange as it may seem, I learned (while training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, U.K.) that it's part of the healing process for a transplant recipient to see the damaged organ that's been replaced. Apparently, it lets them 'close a door in the mind'

This photo'll surely open some in YOUR mind!

This guy sells wads of paper - and calls it art!

I laughed myself silly here.

OrigamiBoulder.com

The ancient art of wadding paper into different shaped rocks and then portraying them as art forms only intellectuals and sensitive/sensible folks understand and appreciate.

Or, more simply, feeding us b.s.

But doing it "purply"

Cool.

I even ordered the "no product" version - coz I hope to get a good laugh out of it.

Not to mention a valuable marketing lesson!

Motivational Posters - Mani's Fantastic Memes

Outrageous guarantee...

"Slap me and call me Suzy" indeed. Now why in the world wouldn't anyone order this book?

Click here to order now!

This is just one of the many remarkable things that have combined to make Joe's book what many famous marketers call "The Best Book of 2003" As an aside - Joe's asking me to write a piece for his second volume due out in 10 days, in the first week of July. He's giving part 2 free to anyone who's ordered the first one! Remarkable? You bet!

Open source EDITING?

Sarah Lane's BLOG REPORT is truly remarkable...

I found several purple cows while following links from some of her previous reports.

Like this open collaborative site on 'Wiki' from yesterday's post... Beyond Unreal

Everyone's an author. And everyone's the editor too.

Cool.

And I love their concern about the bandwidth challenged - read ME

They're offering the entire content for download and later reading - OFFLINE - Get Unreal Wiki here

Wacky Wonderful Wiki...

What's remarkable about online communication?

Well, WIKI is

What's Wiki?

"Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself."

Want more?

You got it! - a-learning-we-shall-go