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A Sweet Music Video To Get The Weekend Going

Peter · June 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Weekend World Music To get You Out Of The Office

Once again the great Jools Holland** turns me on to brilliant music. You do watch Jool’s “Later“, the best music show ever… right? See way below.

This week, he turned me on to Songhoy Blues from Mali. Just watch the video and get ready to dance out of your office and enjoy the summer.

From the Songhoy Blues website:

Produced by Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Marc-Antoine Moreau (Amadou & Mariam, K‚naan), “MUSIC IN EXILE” marks the arrival of a powerful and truly unique new band. Though their music bears elements of contemporary rock and hip hop, at its heart is Songhoy Blues‚ deep attachment to the homegrown songs and dances of Mali‚s Songhoy people as well as such iconic West African guitar heroes as Baba Salah and Ali Farka Touré. Songs like “Irganda” and “Al Hassidi Terei” see Songhoy Blues blending the traditional and the modern, the homegrown and the foreign, the youthful and the ancient.

Have fun!

** Jools… From the BBC website:

Jools Holland has introduced hundreds of established and new musical artists, from solo performers to bands and larger ensembles, since this program debuted on BBC2 in 1992. It’s still going strong more than two decades later, with millions of fans around the world — including those watching on Palladia in the U.S. — enjoying the hourlong episodes taped in a studio near Holland’s home in Kent, England. “Later …” features multiple songs by each guest, and Holland — a founding member of the band Squeeze — interviews one or more of the performers and frequently jams with them.

How To Make Big Money After Advertising

Peter · June 25, 2015 · Leave a Comment

The Truth About ‘After Advertising’

There are actually people making a very good living after leaving advertising. Yes, I know this is hard to imagine. LOL.

Want more? Many are doing this while sitting under a palapa drinking margaritas as the money hits their bank accounts. These folks are smart enough to know how to use their MacBook Pro to leverage the power of online business to grow their very own cool lifestyle. They are not working for the man (and I mean guys like Sir Martin Sorell.)

I realize that this can sound like a pipe dream. One of those ‘I wish’ kinda thinking. But, I know from personal experience that it can happen.

Friday Is Coming / Time For A Food Truck?

So, this Friday when you are sitting at your desk wondering if there is a better way than writing dog biscotti ads, I want you to visit Smart Passive Income and hear how Pat Flynn does exactly what I’m talking about. Ok, Pat isn’t doing all of this from under a palapa. But, he will tell you how you can. The link goes directly to Pat’s income reports. He is 100% transparent about his business — another thing to like him for. Read Pat’s blog and you will see why I mention food trucks.

“How Pat Flynn Made His First $3 Million In Passive Income”

If you need a head start, read Pat’s sweet story in this Forbes interview.

Ad Agencies: Stop Marketing!

Peter · June 24, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Ad Agencies: Don’t Do Any Marketing!

I saw this Adweak Tweet (scroll down) and it got me to thinkin about how much ad agency marketing is directed to prospective clients. Lots!

Man, client CMO’s / marketing departments / CEO’s must be soooo tired of incoming marketing materials from ad agencies. An endless barrage of ‘we are wonderful’, ‘we have this idea’, ‘we did this fantastic work’, ‘we won this award’, ‘we know your category’, ‘we wrote this white paper on: new ad technologies; social marketing; how to use Snapchat; demographics; your issues; your competitors and on and on.

Soooo, I kinda agree with Adweak’s sentiment. BUT…

Great Browser Tool For Writers & Content Hounds

Peter · June 22, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Like to Deliver Super Smart Content? Here’s A Great WordPress (Etc.) Tool.

Here is a weekly report from grammarly – my special content writing and editing friend. I love it.

grammarly automatically spell checks, corrects typos and grammar and reports weekly on my writing activity. I use it daily and automatically. It makes me a much beeetter speller and writer, blogger and human being. Now, I nevvver make any mistarkes. 🙂

Last week’s content rocked – I decided that I needed to put out some large word count missives to help Google love me long-time. As grammarly says…

9828words written

You were more active than 93% of Grammarly users.

Yeah baby, I was in the top 7%.

Here is how grammerly describes themselves:

Check your grammar right from your browser or Microsoft Office. Improve your writing in emails, documents, social media posts, messages, and more.

Here is my weekly report.

	Write a New Text →

	June 15 — June 21

	Your Weekly Writing Update

	“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.” —C.S. Lewis