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Tomorrow I’m releasing eight new books on Kindle. All digital. All daily devotionals. All $0.99 each, or $0.00 this week for Prime Members. And the point is, it’s not about being prolific. Artists who create massive amounts of output in their careers do it for reasons far beyond the typical chest beating, attention craving, score keeping and money making. We ship, ship and keep shipping for a number of…

Anything that’s a barrier to getting your work in people’s hands is a problem. I’m sorry, but if there are fans out there who can’t access your art because of copyright issues, corporate site blocking, password protection, greedy pricing models, platform compatibility, unclear registration forms, pointless rating systems, clumsy web addresses, laborious product registration, geographical restrictions, stupid security certificates, daily download quotas, bureaucratic sharing constraints, annoying error messages or…

LET ME ASK YA THIS… What’s your social experiment? LET ME SUGGEST THIS… For the list called, “62 Types of Questions and Why They Work,” send an email to me, and you win the list for free! * * * * Scott Ginsberg That Guy with the Nametag Writing, Publishing, Performing, Consulting [email protected] Never the same speech twice. Customized for your audience. Impossible to walk away uninspired. Now booking…

I started online dating because I was tired. Tired of being lonely, tired of being single, tired of not having someone to share my life and tired of sitting back, waiting for love to fall in my lap. So I made I decision: I am going to find someone. And on that fateful Saturday night, I paid a hundred bucks for six months, signed the waiver for the money-back…

It’s one thing to be generous, give gifts, make an impression and create a moment worth remembering. But if you’re hoping to run up the score just to guilt people into working with you, if you’re trying to make something happen in the first minute of the conversation, you don’t have someone’s best interests in mind. Creating a sense of indebtedness and social pressure to reciprocate doesn’t work anymore….

LET ME ASK YA THIS… What’s your free prize inside? LET ME SUGGEST THIS… For the list called, “7 Ways to Out Leverage Your Competition,” send an email to me, and you win the list for free! * * * * Scott Ginsberg That Guy with the Nametag Writing, Publishing, Performing, Consulting [email protected] Never the same speech twice. Customized for your audience. Impossible to walk away uninspired. Now booking…

After nine years of posting, thousands of hours of writing and over a million words in print, I’m joining Gapingvoid in a celebration about what I’ve learned from the wonderful world of blogging: Blogging teaches you what freedom feels like. Hugh Macleod writes in his new book, “Own your own media and own your own platform, and you own your own career. Own your own career, and you own…

Having an impact is a beautiful thing. When the work you do inspires, influences, challenges, sparks, motivates and helps people in a palpable way, you experience existential validation, professional confirmation and personal gratification. Unfortunately, you don’t always experience financial compensation. And that’s the problem with impact – it doesn’t always convert to income. Partly because of priority. Our society rewards mediocrity, worships incompleteness, celebrates stupidity, encourages negativity and retweets…

I recently met a computer programmer who does government contract work. When I asked about the state of the industry, he complained that most of his competitors were frontloaders. Not being familiar with the term, I asked him to explain. He said their entire business model is getting the business. And that’s it. Nobody said anything about actually delivering. Once they get what they want, they collect their commission,…

Sadness is an inherent part of the human condition. It’s not depression, it’s not devastation, it’s not a chemical imbalance, it’s not a sign of weakness, it’s not the end of the world and it’s not going to last forever. It’s just part of life. My approach has always been to have a positive foundation in place for when the sadness hits. To maintain a diverse portfolio of happiness,…