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It takes me about a much time to run to the office as it would to metro in. So I run to work.

Interesting blog post from the author of Evernote Essentials.

His best tip:

If I had to attribute my success to one single thing, I wouldn’t hesitate to say that it was the affiliate program. When other people who really believe in what you sell are given the opportunity to make some cheddar while they share your wares, everybody wins. This arrangement has brought me countless customers that would have never heard of me or my stuff without the recommendations of my affiliates.

Read the rest of what he learned here: 10,000 Sales Later: Lessons Learned from Selling Evernote Essentials | Bridging the Nerd Gap.

Check out this quote from Subvert Magazine’s great interview with Seth Godin:

As an adult, the launch of my book packaging gig was the real deal. I was choosing to go into business. I sold my first book the first day to Warner Books for $5,000. I got half. Off to the races!

And then…

And then I got 900 rejection letters in a row, turned down 30 times each by 30 top publishers. Over the course of a year.

Full stop failure.

That’s when I realized I had no real options and this was the real deal, the course of my life. Stay in or get out, and I really had no choice. I was in.

Seth’s team went on to do 120 books.

You should read the full interview here: Seth Godin – Full Stop Failure. | Subvert Magazine.

From IndieReader:

Thomas Hertog claimed that, by using a few simple tricks, he’d gotten his book onto Amazon’s bestseller list. In an article titled “Amazon Kindle’s Best Seller Ranking Is Bogus,” Nick Farrell writes: “Over five months all he [Hertog] had to do was buy and download his book to his Kindle 173 times. He has also written 42 customer reviews that he voted on a hundred and eight times to raise the ranking on Amazon’s bestseller list and recommendation lists.”

Isn’t it too easy to lose focus and do work that’s outside your mission?

In 1986, Apple published a clothing catalog.

The whole thing is ridiculous, right down the descriptions, like the one that starts out, “For people who run, or just want to look like they do….”

Tattoo artist Ryan turned rogue after discovering that Rossie had cheated on him with his best friend.

Rossie originally tried to have her ex-lover charged with assault but she had signed a consent form agreeing the tattoo design was “at the artist’s discretion”.

via Tatt-poo for cheating | The Sun |News.

I just got a very persuasive email from William Channer of Dorm Room Tycoon.

In the first sentence of the email, he said, “Are you open to the idea of putting a link to your interview on your blog http://random.andrewwarner.com/ ?” The second sentence was a link the interview I did on his site.

Now that’s the way to freakin’ ask for something. I get about a dozen emails every day from people who ask me to do stuff, and I REALLY WANT TO HELP, but I can’t understand what they’re asking for because they bury their requests under paragraph after paragraph of backstories, explanations and other text that’s supposed to help me say yes.

I guess he’s using the advice I gave when he interviewed me on his site earlier this year.

Check out my Dorm Room Tycoon interview with William and let me know what you think.