| Hello: Here’s the latest edition of MarketVolt’s Monday Mash-up. We’ll kick off every week with this quick collection of tips, recommendations, observations and other interesting, valuable stuff. – Tom |
| Monday, November 26, 2018 MarketVolt’s Monday Mash-UpRecommended Listening Kwik Lessons to Power Your Brain I first discovered Jim Kwik when Cal Fussman featured him on the Big Questions podcast. That turned me on to his Kwik Brain podcast which I love and recommend. Here’s the podcast description from iTunes: Kwik Brain is a fun, fast-paced show designed to help busy people learn and achieve anything in a fraction of the time! Your coach, Jim Kwik (his real name), is the brain & memory trainer to elite mental performers, including many of the world’s leading CEOs and celebrities. In this easy to digest bite-sized podcast, you will discover Kwik’s favorite shortcuts to read faster, remember more, and ‘supercharge’ your greatest wealth-building asset: your brain.” Marketing Advice List-Building Tips from Forbes I came across this article last month. Great advice on how to build an online following and email list. The article offers advice for “authors.” But its lessons apply to any business conducting email marketing. Here’s my favorite point from the article: “(Many) have the misguided view that regular communication could be construed as SPAM, that horrible four-letter word. Nothing could be farther from the truth. They WANT to hear from you—often. These people have freely given you their email address—a very closely guarded destination point—and they expect to get something in return. Namely, your ideas, opinions, thoughts, impressions—and most importantly, your writing.” If You Have to Shop Online…Here Are Some Tools to Help You Save Last week, I encouraged you to go local for Small Business Saturday. Supporting local businesses should be a year-round thing, but most of us shop online occasionally. So for those times when you shop on the Web, here are 11 Browser Extensions That Can Save You Money Every Time You Shop Online. Recommended Reading From Suburban Kid to Army Medic to Bank RobberI learned about Nico Walker when his novel, “Cherry” was listed among 100 notable books of 2018 in this article. I sampled “Cherry” on my Kindle, and I was instantly hooked. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story of a young man who… …Well, the headline tells you plenty. If you want to learn more, read this profile of Nico from BuzzFeed. Better yet, read the novel. It’s brilliant. Warning: It’s not for the faint of heart. It’s full of bad language, crude behavior, violence, mayhem. It may offend some. If any of that concerns you, dig deeper before you dive in. I found the novel honest and raw and riveting. Nico’s publisher claims the book is not ghost-written. The words are Nico’s — written in prison, where he still resides today. Quotable Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.– Charles M. Schulz (Creator of the Peanuts comic strip, born on this day in 1922) Any reading, listening, quoting, resourcing that you think we should share? Send us a tip. Until next time, enjoy the rest of this week and the weekend. Tom |
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