It’s Thanks­giv­ing in Canada, so it’s time to give thanks. It’s also my birth­day. That’s why I’m the one who’s going to give you a gift (there’s only one con­di­tion, so read on).

I want to give thanks to all my loyal sub­scribers and read­ers. But there’s another per­fectly good and more impor­tant reason.

I need to make some room!

You see, I have 3,000 copies of one of my books in stor­age, and I need to get rid of them. Fast! So I’m fully pre­pared to give them away. For free. Let me give you some back­ground first…

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Just a lit­tle note to let you know that I’m in Raleigh, North Car­olina all week, as I’m record­ing a new prod­uct with my friend Armand Morin on blogging.

We lit­er­ally go step by step through the process of set­ting up a blog, adding all the plu­g­ins, tweak­ing it, dri­ving traf­fic to it, and of course, mon­e­tiz­ing it properly.

I will return next week, and have a few new arti­cles for you. In the mean­time, did you check out my coach­ing pro­gram? A few open­ings are left. At least take a moment to read it. There are some great copy lessons in there, too!

(I also added a few extra pic­tures, includ­ing one of me play­ing my new drum­set — like the photo at top of this post, which was taken at my 40th birth­day party gig in a local water­ing hole in Ottawa, Ontario.)

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As we’re get­ting ready to speak at the next Big Sem­i­nar, and share the stage with none other than Jay Abra­ham, my wife Sylvie and I have been work­ing furi­ously on our upcom­ing prod­uct, Suc­cess Chef, which we are launch­ing at Big.

But as busy as I am these days, and with the added stress of writ­ing copy, deal­ing with clients and rais­ing three teenagers, I some­times find myself dip­ping into a few books as a dis­trac­tion for some solace and qui­etude — and to give me some fresh ideas.

Last week, I bought four books, and devoured them in a sin­gle week!

I’m noth­ing short of amazed at how great these books are. And I want to share them with you and encour­age you to grab a copy. (Audio ver­sions of the books are also avail­able, too.) They are…

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Gary: I want you to imag­ine that an ad was writ­ten by me. I mean it was just a bril­liant ad… a bril­liant head­line… a bril­liant copy. It just flowed, etc. and it was about knit­ting machines.

Now, I am guess­ing that most of the peo­ple on this call do not knit very often unless Rosie Greer is on the call. I do not think you knit very often and it would not make any dif­fer­ence how much skill I used to write that let­ter but let’s take another scenario.

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