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  • This saved me a bunch of time

    One simple rule has saved me SO much of that most precious of commodities: time. When I check my inbox… If there’s something that will take 2-minutes or less to take care of… then I do it right there and then. No shuffling things off to a todo list. Clicking “Snooze.” Or pretending it’s not…

  • Slamming the brakes on the bad-advice train

    One single article, from a “Team of Professional Marketers” is helping me keep my email calendar full with bad advice to comment on. It’s not just them I’ve heard this kind of stuff from. It’s everywhere. So slamming the brakes on the bad advice train probably ain’t gonna happen. But at least we can jump…

  • Why I could NOT NOT create this

    You may have noticed these last few emails that I’ve mentioned about the Email Mindset Constructinomicon guide that’s included with my new email ACE coaching. And it’s no accident I created it. In fact… I couldn’t help but create it!  Because… It’s been SO MANY times over the years that I’ve seen how both learning…

  • The key to becoming an email badass

    There’s a heap of skills and knowhow you can learn for playing a top email-marketing game. But if you REALLY want to become an email badass… Whose subscribers miss your emails when they don’t show up as expected. Who keeps readers captivated from subject line to clicking the link. Who grows a strong relationship with…

  • My daughter thinks I’m a scammer

    Sitting at the dinner table the other day. And my 15-year old daughter asks out the blue: “So… what is it you do again Dad?” I think last time she asked me, I completely bamboozled her with a word soup of “copywriting,” “marketing,” “coaching” (and others) that sailed on past. So this time I was…

  • What’s sizzling?

    Something’s sizzling in the kitchen of La Casa de Milham… And it’s got all the hamster clan drooling. Not surprisingly… it’s the Milhamster’s favorite staple: 🥓🍳 If you’re not an animal products fan… you might not be so keen. But hey… you can’t beat bacon and eggs around here. Today I’m cooking up a storm…

  • She even gave me a blooper reel!

    Alicia was SHOCKED when — out of the blue — a couple of strangers who overheard her reading aloud said… “We really like to listen to you read. You do it so well.” So began a LOOONG string of compliments over the years. It wasn’t uncommon for people to come up to her and say:…

  • Was launching on a Sunday a good idea?

    The plan for my Email Ace launch was to start on Saturday. To give a full five-days before the first coaching audio arrives on Thursday. Everything was in place… tested… and ready to go. The only step left was sending my launch email. But at the LAST SECOND (of course!) I had a… ⚡💡⚡ BRAINWAVE!!!…

  • Emails from the kitchen sink

    Last year the five of us headed away to the city to attend an award ceremony for my daughter. The shoebox-sized motel we stayed at meant we were practically tripping over each other. For writing my emails I had to make the most of a bad situation. Which meant my standing desk that day was…

  • “It’s the deep breath before the plunge.”

    Pippin stares intently into the night.   In the distance, molten rock flung upward from Mount Doom illuminates the darkened skies.   Something is stirring in the land of Mordor.   He turns his gaze upward. Expecting to find stars. But they are strangely absent.   As he rests his crossed arms on the edge…