It’s my wife Sylvie Fortin’s birth­day today. (Yes, she’s a Hallowe’en child! She’s dress­ing up as Lucy Ricardo tonight.) But appar­ently, she’s the one giv­ing out the gifts — or is that treats?

You see, the other day my wife held a pri­vate, closed-​​door webi­nar that shows you how to both spot and tap hun­gry mar­kets — there are a few million-​​dollar tips in there! For­tu­nately, we recorded it.

And right now, we’re releas­ing it to the pub­lic for free!

I’m proud of my wife, her bril­liance, and the knowl­edge she so will­ingly shares. And when I say her “bril­liance,” I mean it in more ways than one. In fact, it’s golden! Go check out the video below and you’ll see exactly what I mean…

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My recent arti­cle about Face­book not being a viable mar­ket­ing tool has cre­ated quite a stir.

Many peo­ple agreed with me. But some peo­ple didn’t, and I respect that. How­ever, while a few were scathing and harsh in their remarks, oth­ers posted some excel­lent rebut­tals on their own blogs.

This topic seems to be as con­tro­ver­sial as the long-​​versus-​​short-​​copy debate in copy­writ­ing cir­cles. Deja-​​vu? Well, it’s no won­der because, just like the copy length debate, both sides are right.

It all depends on how you use them and with whom.

That’s why I agree with most of Facebook’s pro­po­nents. That might sound like a con­tra­dic­tion, but I believe it’s because many mis­un­der­stood my post. So I wanted to take a moment before hop­ping on the plane to clar­ify a few things.

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Whether you change your voca­tion or not, your actions for the present must be those per­tain­ing to the busi­ness in which you are now engaged.

You can get into the busi­ness you want by mak­ing con­struc­tive use of the busi­ness you are already estab­lished in — by doing your daily work in the cer­tain way.

And inso­far as your busi­ness con­sists in deal­ing with other peo­ple, whether per­son­ally or by let­ter, the key thought of all your efforts must be to con­vey to their minds the impres­sion of increase.

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