Did you watch the Academy Awards on Sunday?
I did!
I was curious to see if Brokeback Mountain was going to take the award for Best Picture.
It didn’t win the award for best picture but it sure has been profitable! In fact, many Hollywood moguls say we should expect more movies like Brokeback Mountain, because they are easier and cheaper to produce — and offer the studios a far greater return on investment.
“Brokeback Mountain” was produced at a cost of 14 million dollars and has earned $127 million to date. A whopping return on investment of 9 times!
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One of my ex-girlfriends says I am the most ruthless man she knows.
ruth·less (r?th’l?s) adj. Having no compassion or pity; merciless: ruthless cruelty; ruthless opportunism.
But it isn’t my fault. It is a learned behavior from the US Marine Corps…
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Learn The Whispered Secrets Of An Email Marketing Wizard
Let me ask you these three questions…
1. Have you read “Autoresponder Magic”, “Million Dollar Emails” — and “The Insider Secrets To E-Mail Marketing” — but still felt something was missing?
2. Are you just as confused as thousands of other marketers on what THE PROCESS is to writing a great email that pulls in buckets of cash?
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As if to put a big ! to my recent special report: a recent survey proves my point that if you are blogging and expecting that your blog and RSS are the best way to contact readers, prospects or customers — YOU ARE WRONG.
This data is not surprising and only shows that even bloggers still need to deliver their content via e-mail as well, using RSS as a supplement and not as a replacement.
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I saw this article over at ClickZ, where email “guru” David Daniels comes up with a plan to deal with churn.
He writes…
E-mail addresses have a shelf life. Nearly a third of them go bad every year. Some e-mail addresses are gold, others are duds, and some only behave the way you want them to at particular times of year.
What’s a marketer to do?
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It has been brought to may attention that many of my emails and newsletters are not being received by many of you. It seems they have been gobbled up by something — or my autoresponder service (ProAutoresponder.com) was not doing its job.
I am testing a new service right now (Aweber.com) and all of you should be getting confirmation emails asking you to verify your email address. Please be on the lookout for it!
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I am assuming that you are engaging in some form of email marketing…
(Don’t you dare tell me that blogging is the ONLY thing that you do. Because you are missing out of serious profits.)
If so, this article is going to be of interest. It discusses causes and remedies of email bounces, which are the undeliverable emails that bounce back to your auto-responder.
[URL: ClickZ-- "Increase Delivery Rates With Active Bounce Management" ]
Be sure and check your inbox later today for an important email from me. That is all I am going to say for now…
If you aren’t a subscriber to my newsletter, you will be kicking yourself in the ass for years, if you miss this. 
UPDATE: It should be in there. If not remove my email from your junk email box — and add me to your “whitelist”!